Can't burn DVD-R

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James E Middleton

Pioneer DVR-110

It's supposed to do:
CD-R
CD-RW
DVD-RAM
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD+R
DVD+RW
DVD-R-DL
DVD+R-DL

Win XP Pro SP2
Direct X 9.0c
All up dates.


Using one of three DVD applications I have, I am converting avi files to
mpeg2 and making movie disks. In all three aplications, when I use DVD+R,
there is no problem. However, every time in every application, when I use
DVD-R, I get some kind of error during the process; from 'Insert Blank
Media' to 'The Burn Process has Failed.'

The three applications are:

Nero Vision Express
Sonic My DVD LE
Win DVD Creator

I've heard something somewhere about applications conflicting, or problems
with packet writing applications.... but I have no idea.

Thanks.
 
Then you need to ask tech support at Nero or Sonic or Win DVD - this is the
MovieMaker newsgroup; not DVD burner newsgroup.
 
Since about half of the post in this group are about burning avi files to
DVDs, I don't see the harm.

Not to mention that someone may have already encountered a similar problem
while authoring DVDs.

If two applications worked and one didn't, or one worked and two didn't, the
problem would be obvious; software.

And since the hardware is functional and will burn DVD-R data, but not
mpeg, it's not a hardware issue.
 
Usually it is recommended to save Movie Maker movies in DV-AVI to retain
quality if you are going to burn it to dvd. I usually do that, and also save
the movie in High Quality-NTSC which will be a much smaller file size to play
on the computer. Most often, you can't tell any quality difference. The
DV-AVI files are generally very large and take up a lot of disk space, and I
late go back and delete it off my drive, but retain the NTSC one. The
reason I am saying all this, is that I have a problem burning the NTSC format
when I use my Movie Factory program, but it works fine in my Sonic program.
Maybe you could give High Quality NTSC a try and see if that will work in
your programs to burn a DVD-R. Just a thought, and if you do slideshow
videos of pics, my suggestion is to get PapaJohn's high def emulations from
the HD section of his website...its the best. Good luck.
 
As mentioned in a previous post, the drives (I have two on two identical
systems) will burn data to DVD-R but not mpeg, so is it really hardware?
 
Why didn't I think of that!? ;-)

I though the drives we're new enough to have the latest firmware...

I updated the firmware, 'only' six months difference.

Wish me luck, I'll post after I try to burn som disks.

Thanks very much.
 
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