Hey all, I've burned about 50 or so dvds and have been floating around this forum for a while collecting information and learning new things. I have a few questions that I hope some people with more experience/knowledge can help me out with. I'm in the Army and have been backing up my entire collection of dvds to take with me when I deploy (I also like to have a copy for the kids to use so they don't destroy the originals). I've noticed that I've had freezing and skipping problems with many dvds lately - plus they don't want to play in either my desktop or laptop, but will tend to play fine (for the most part) in my stand alone dvd player. I was using Memorex media and didn't seem to have any problem with them (using labels with them too), but then ran out and bought something called Pengo - I used dvdidentifer and it says they're Taiyo Yuden - which many people on here say are pretty good. I think my problems began with this new batch of dvds and don't know what to make of it. I use dvd decrypter, dvd shrink. I burn at a slow speed (x2), have a Pioneer burner that seems to work fine, have taken the advice on here and use 4300 as a custom size, have stopped using paper labels. Any thoughts about anything I might be doing wrong and why dvds wouldnt want to play on a computer. - thanks.
im sure the first thing people will tell you that it's your media.second your firmware.i guess if you started having problems with that batch,then that's what it is. if your stationed at bragg i can probably help you out. sorry i couldn't be more help
burning @x2 is too slow, if you have genuine TY. What Pioneer model do you have and what firmware, and what software do you use for backup?
I have searched some threads http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/193259 It seems that "Pengo" might not be what they really claim to be. You might want to try something else(buy a small pack of Verbatims or Maxell MIJ) and see how that works for you. ADDED: Per kivory666 Sorry, but i guess you might need some good media.
This helps to know that the TY code is fake - I'll know to stay away from them in the future - my experience with these disks so far has been horrible compared to previous results - I'm not sure why a burn speed of x2 is too slow, guess I can do some research - I thought if I slowed the process down, then there would be less chance of write errors. I can check about firmware updates and such. My burner is a pioneer DVR-106, I think the firmware is 1.5. - thanks.
Actually, the latest might be 1.07, check it out on the link below. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_search.php HTH, Rich
