lfcrule1972

Well I can understand your home dvd player objecting then as I believe that a lot of US players won't play PAL or European format discs. It doesn't answer why your PC won't tho as in my experience they don't tend to give a rats ass as to whether its NTSC or PAL.

I agree the source disk is shite but he is also using Verbs Shamus

Whoa hang on at the start of your log it says the source disc is PTP or Parallel Track Path, is this a Navigation DVD by any chance ? If so you won't be able to back it up cos all DL DVD media burns OTP or Opposite Track Path. The disc you are trying to burn reads from the centre out to the edge and then the laser resets to the centre again and starts reading a second layer from the centre again. The OTP reads from the centre to the edge and then from the edge back to the centre on DL discs. The thing that is confusing me is that it doesn't appear to be a dual layer disc as the source, does the source disc actually work ? It looks a little weird to me as it's reporting PTP

I see you have Test mode enabled, have you changed any of the other settings in the program ? Can I suggest you restore the defaults, via the Tools, Settings panel so we know there is nothing else going on here Then try an another burn for us and post the log up.

You do - you get volvo to help you spell it all out !!!

and don't forget to let us know if that fixed your problem

I agree with all the fella's above don't even bother trying Dual Layer burns without the Verbatim DVD+R DL's ( DO NOT BUY THE DVD-R DL's). Check out the Drives/Media area where different drives have burnt DL media, only the Verbatims stand up to the tests consistently....

<passes clean hanky to Shamus> I would visit any forum just to see Kev's Av every day !!

They look like they could be CMC made don't they ?

Ah yes teenage years watching Red Dwarf !!

So your files are in PAL format - are you in an NTSC area ?

I have plenty left over from the disc tests Shamus, give me your mail address and I will express courier them to you this evening, I have had them a month already so they might not last much longer

Classic Red Dwarf episode when the Cat and Lister discuss going with either Betty or Wilma springs to mind....

You keep refering to Nero - have you asked them ?

Yuk

Hey Altercuno - don't feel bad you should see Fred and Betty in action

Cheers donta, you have one don't you ?

Just wondered if the problematic disc maybe has a film in say NTSC format and the player used only accepts PAL format or vice versa ? Obviously the PC drive will play it back (given decent media) no matter whether it's a US format NTSC film or a Euro/UK PAL format film but some players can be picky on this can't they ? Guess it would depend on whether Daniel can play the original film on the same player ok ?

Hey let's not get our knickers in a twist eh ? No worries Chewy, have posted as requested over at DD

Shamus is especially good with the artificial insemenation of rodents

Maybe the actual Media ID of the older CMC's you are using is different to the current batch with which you are having troubles ? As above tho I wouldn't use them as they are too problematic..... don't take my word for it have a look at the Drives/Media section of this forum

Did you mean this Arthur Kev ?

@polo -

Looks like this...... I 20:18:17 Operation Started! I 20:18:17 Source File: -==/\/[DISCOVERY IMAGE]\/\==- I 20:18:17 Source File Sectors: 2,366,480 (MODE1/2048) I 20:18:17 Source File Size: 4,846,551,040 bytes I 20:18:17 Source File Volume Identifier: DISCOVERY_IMAGE I 20:18:17 Source File File System(s): None I 20:18:17 Destination Device: [1:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111 1.29 (F:) (ATA) I 20:18:17 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: BeAll G40001) (Speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x) I 20:18:17 Destination Media Sectors: 2,366,480 I 20:18:17 Write Mode: DVD I 20:18:17 Write Type: DAO I 20:18:17 Write Speed: MAX I 20:18:17 Link Size: Auto I 20:18:17 Test Mode: No I 20:18:17 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 20:18:17 Filling Buffer... (20 MB) I 20:18:17 Writing LeadIn... I 20:18:41 Writing Image... I 20:33:20 Synchronising Cache... I 20:33:39 Exporting Graph Data... I 20:33:39 Graph Data File: D:\ImgBurn\DVDinfoPro\Graphs\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-111_1.29_24-JANUARY-2007_20-18_BeAll_G40001_MAX.ibg I 20:33:39 Export Successfully Completed! I 20:33:39 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:15:22 I 20:33:39 Average Write Rate: 5,390 KB/s (3.9x) - Maximum Write Rate: 5,618 KB/s (4.1x) I 20:33:39 Cycling Tray before Verify... I 20:34:03 Device Ready! I 20:34:03 Operation Started! I 20:34:03 Source Device: [1:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111 1.29 (F:) (ATA) I 20:34:03 Source Media Type: DVD-R (Book Type: DVD-R) (Disc ID: BeAll G40001) (Speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x) I 20:34:03 Image File: -==/\/[DISCOVERY IMAGE]\/\==- I 20:34:03 Image File Sectors: 2,366,480 (MODE1/2048) I 20:34:03 Image File Size: 4,846,551,040 bytes I 20:34:03 Image File Volume Identifier: DISCOVERY_IMAGE I 20:34:03 Image File File System(s): None I 20:34:03 Verifying Sectors... (LBA: 0 - 2366479) I 20:40:39 Exporting Graph Data... I 20:40:40 Graph Data File: D:\ImgBurn\DVDinfoPro\Graphs\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-111_1.29_24-JANUARY-2007_20-18_BeAll_G40001_MAX.ibg I 20:40:40 Export Successfully Completed! I 20:40:40 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:06:36 I 20:40:40 Average Verify Rate: 11,951 KB/s (8.6x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 17,605 KB/s (12.7x)

I had very hit and miss results with the Verbatim DVD-RW you are using, check out the media scans below: http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=1545 As you will see the BenQ did ok but the NEC hated them, isn't the Optiarc and NEC collaboration ? Like donta said try gettting some decent media like Taiyo Yudens or Verbatims DVD?R's.