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DVD Burning Question

Post by rob_c » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:05 pm

I've recently bought a standalone DVD Recorder.

Just a standard one . . . no hard drive.

I bought it mainly to transfer a lot of home videos onto DVD . . . as it's much easier than mucking around trying to use a PC. Sure a PC is more flexible . . . but it's so much easier and quicker to just hit PLAY on the VCR and RECORD on the DVD unit. :D

I do have a problem though . . .

The unit works perfectly and creates dvd's that can be played on all the other standalone dvd players that we have, but I can't get the disc to play in my PC.

At first I thought I might have done something wrong, but I took one of the discs to work and it played on their PC just fine.

My PC/DVD has no problems playing commercial DVD's, but it simply can't seem to "see" the home made discs . . . . it won't "autoplay" and Explorer doesn't acknowledge that there's a disc in the drive . . . which is a pain . . . . coz the idea is that I wanted to make multiple copies of these home movie dvd's for other relatives.

It's obviously a setting / driver problem . . . but I don't know where to look.

Any ideas ?

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Post by Viking » Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:34 pm

What format is the DVD you wrote +R, -R, +RW, etc. Could be that your PC DVD drive can't handle the format you're using. How olds the drive??
Thats the most obvious thing I can think of. Other than that I'd be scratching my head, without actually standing in front of all the stuff.
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Post by rob_c » Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:37 pm

Both the standalone and the PC drive are compatible with + / - R/RW media.

Someone has said that it could be that the laser in PC drive (18 months old) is possibly losing it's power . . . and that "burnt" discs are "deeper" than commercial ones.

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Post by rob_c » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:42 pm

Problem solved.

Someone suggested downloading new firmware for the PC drive.

Works fine now. :D

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Post by MadMarty13 » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:53 pm

I was going to say download the right codecs but your problem is solved
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