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Interesting that you mentioned an aging Pioneer. I have one myself. It now resides in a box beside my desk. I don't know if I want to trash it or not. It's about 3 or 4 years old, a Pioneer rebadged as Memorex. It stopped burning DVD R media. It started acting up and my DVDs would go into burn, but the DVDs wouldn't play in my standalone player. On the PC they were read as Audio by the player software, but played as a video. WinDVD 7 was the player software, I didn't try others. The burns were successful, the burner just wasn't finalizing the discs. R media has to be finalized. I could play DVDs on the drive and record RW as well. Ring any bells yet? Anyway, that clinched it, write but not finalizing and writing good to RWs. I replaced the drive and the system handles all supported media once again. It sounds as though you may have the same problem here. If you can get your hands on a good drive to change out, that would be the easiest test. Normally those RWs are a bit more pricey than Rs, but it would take a bunch to make up the cost of a drive. Sounds like you want to run it till it locks though. It may have just been coincidence about adding the software. It might be a good time to upgrade to one of the new DL burners.
sytyguy is right about decryption software. With newer movies there is encryption that has been created since support of DVDD ceased. LUK was good, but not clairvoyant. It takes updated software to handle the newer encryptions and AnyDVD is one of the best. DVD Decrypter will still do many of the DVDs, but there are those it can't. A lot of the Disney movies fall into the category. A lot of problem DVDs are from Sony. You can read about it here on AD.
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