Problem with getting a DVD to read.

[JohnB]

Can anyone help with this please??

 

Using ImgBurn I have sucessfully burned a DVD on my PC HP DVD Writer 300n 1.25 (ATA) to both a DVD+ R/W and a DVD+ write once.

 

These will play fine on my PC drive but if I come to play either of them on my Toshiba video recorder/player neither will play -both retuning 'No disk loaded'.

 

The DVD recorder/player is DVD- so I suspect this may be a formating related problem. ( I am using good quality Phillips DVDs)

 

If I burn a DVDR- (using Logik disks) from my Toshiba it will play fine on my PC as the Toshiba finalises them and they can then play anywhere.

 

I have read somewhere that in order for burning software to label a DVD as a DVD , the software must finalise the DVD as part of the burning process.

 

Can anyone help explain what ImgBurn is doing, whether or not it is finalising them, and how to use it to create a 'portable' DVD which will play on my recorder/player.

 

If ImgBurn cant do this is there anything around (prefererably freeware) that can.

 

Many thanks in advance

JB

[LIGHTNING UK!]

This is probably a booktype problem as ImgBurn always finalises the discs it burns.

 

Fingers crossed there is some way to make your HP drive perform bitsetting on the DVD+ media so that it looks like DVDROM.

 

I guess your Toshiba just doesn't like the DVD+ booktype.

[JohnB]

This is probably a booktype problem as ImgBurn always finalises the discs it burns.

 

Fingers crossed there is some way to make your HP drive perform bitsetting on the DVD+ media so that it looks like DVDROM.

 

I guess your Toshiba just doesn't like the DVD+ booktype.

 

 

Thanks for this. Does this mean that its not possible to set the booktype from within Imgburn?? What does the Booktype option in the Drive menu option do?

I'm afraid I dont know much about booktypes and where to look to or how to get the HP drive to write this.

Can you give me any clues?

Thanks

JB

[polopony]

This is probably a booktype problem as ImgBurn always finalises the discs it burns.

 

Fingers crossed there is some way to make your HP drive perform bitsetting on the DVD+ media so that it looks like DVDROM.

 

I guess your Toshiba just doesn't like the DVD+ booktype.

 

 

Thanks for this. Does this mean that its not possible to set the booktype from within Imgburn?? What does the Booktype option in the Drive menu option do?

I'm afraid I dont know much about booktypes and where to look to or how to get the HP drive to write this.

Can you give me any clues?

Thanks

JB

to the first question the drive has to support booktype not all do even within the same braand drive NEC for example

setting booktype to DVD ROM makes the disc more compatible to players, especially older players .

Reading back a disc still comes down to having burned to quality media .You can burn to almost any media with the right drive and firmware BUT reading it back can be an issue for poor media and it usually is .Poor media tends to become unreadable in a short time .Quality media is the key Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim are the best bar none anything else is a waste of time and effort