I've been burning disks with different versions of Nero Burning ROM for years. But I've just tried burning DVD video to expensive 8.5GB DVD9 disks today. The very first disk failed to verify all data from the 4.5GB point into the burn, and out to the end point at 8.152GB.
I've got about a 2-3 year old BenQ DVD drive, an Asus MB with a 2.66GHz Pentium D CPU, 2GB PC5300 667MHz memory, Windows XP SP2. And I've been doing a lot of video processing in this system with virtually no major problems with this Asus system for the past year of so.
What with the cost of these DVD9 disks, I'm not inclined to blindly do a batch of test burns without having some idea what I'm doing. Does anyone know what may be causing this, and what to do to optimize the chances of minimizing the number of test burns?
I can't help but think that there must be something to the fact that all data written after the 4.5GB border failed verification. Has anyone seen anything like that?
Originally posted by killalot: There's your problem Memorex use some better disk's
Turned out the disks may not have been as much as a problem as the BenQ and Asus system. After the 1st failed verification in the BenQ, I burned the remaining 4 of the 5 DVD9 disk set in another system, and they all passed verification.
I guess it's another case of, "You just never know."
See if there is a firmware update for your BenQ burner might help when you use them memorex disk's some burners aren't as good as others at burning poor branded disk's if you had have used verbatim's wouldn't have had so many coasters if you Google memorex your see other folk bitching about them i use Ritek never had any problems but don't do that much burning these days
Originally posted by killalot: There's your problem Memorex use some better disk's
Turned out the disks may not have been as much as a problem as the BenQ and Asus system. After the 1st failed verification in the BenQ, I burned the remaining 4 of the 5 DVD9 disk set in another system, and they all passed verification.
I guess it's another case of, "You just never know."
Originally posted by Smattzon: Any true BenQ will be years old and will not have the proper write strategies for newer DL media. A very common problem with older DL burners.
Good point. I've updated the firmware, so I'll check this again at some point.
