Desktop Burn = Good; Laptop Burn = Bad

[DWillens]

I have been using Imgburn on my desktop for awhile now with good results to burn DVDs. I started using it yesterday on my Fujitsu S6510 laptop and although the burns have all been reported successful and can all be subsequently read by the laptop drive itself, none of the DVDs have been readable by my standalone DVD player. So I tried an experiment: I took my "Quantum of Solace" DVD folder from my external hard drive and made two burns, one from my laptop (which did not read in the DVD player) and then one from my desktop (which DID read in the DVD player). As you can see from the attached logs, the only thing different about the two burns is 1) the laptop is Win7 x64 vs Win7 x32; and 2) obviously the optical drives are different. As far as I can tell, EVERYTHING else is the same. In fact, my laptop is much newer than my desktop.

 

I would conclude that there is a problem with my laptop drive not burning high enough quality for the standalone player. Or perhaps the combination of this drive and budget-quality media? I would have thought maybe it was DVD+RW issue, but the standalone DVD player reads those discs from the desktop drive without any problems.

 

Anyone have any other ideas? It really bothers me that I cannot burn a DVD move from my laptop, even though I can do it from my desktop.

 

Damon

 

ps I tried burning it on the laptop at both 2.4x and max 4x and that did not work either

 

::::::::::::::LAPTOP BURN LOG::::::::::::::

 

I 14:25:32 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started!

I 14:25:32 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7100)

I 14:25:32 Total Physical Memory: 4,184,372 KB - Available: 2,569,560 KB

I 14:25:32 Initialising SPTI...

I 14:25:32 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 14:25:32 Found 1 DVD

[mmalves]

Try burning at 4x on the laptop and it may result in a better burn. Also leave Verify enabled as that's what ensures if it was a good burn or not.

[DWillens]

UPDATE: definitely a media issue. I went out and bought a pack of Verbatim (MCC) DVD-R and burned the same movies again that failed to play from the DVD+R. Not only did they work flawlessly on my Panny RP-56 standalone player, they also played on my even older Toshiba standalone player. Then I went back and found the manual for the players and found that they don't even support DVD+R media! So apparently the few times I got those to work were just coincidence.

 

Now if only I could figure out a way to change the booktype for all this DVD+R media I have lying around, apparently my laptop's Matshita UJ-852s drive will not allow changing the bits.

 

Damon