Hello everyone. I have a magnavox dvd player. It's MWD200F. I've been making, and backing up my dvd's and they've been working excellent on the dvd player. Until Compusa. I ripped, shrunk, and burned them like I always do. I go to put it in my dvd player, and the stupid thing starts skipping. So, I thought that maybe it was the dvd. So, I tried it on a cyberhome dvd player. No problem. Then, I tried it on my polaroid portable dvd player. Again, no problem. So, I'm wondering, is there another method besides Nero Burning Rom 7 that I should used to burn my DVD+R so that it doesn't skip on my magnavox dvd player? Oh, and before I forget, it DOES play DVD+R.
@James5475 As you've just experienced players can be picky - what one likes the other may not. Then will have the CompUSA discs - definitely not 'A' list stuff - problem is they use different manufactures and most not very good - poor quality media which will cause burn errors or playback issues. So switch your media to the 'A' list- instore look for Verbatim or Made in Japan Fuji,Sony or Maxell. Another thing is make sure you not burning at max speed - try taking it down a notch and that your burner's firmware is up to date.
I've got the same exact magnavox player,it's a wal-mart special. It will play everything off of my benq burners.The only issue it has is it won't play my plus backups off my HP 640c lightscribe burner.It's a very good player,but doesn't have progressive scan. Compusa are poor quality discs. If you can use neroinfotool and locate the MID code,that will explain it. Poor quality media has to be burned slower.Issues at the end of the backups require a reduced backup target of around 4300 mbs. That magnavox: By skipping with those compusa discs,it is telling you there is something wrong with them. You verified them by having other drives play them ok. Try reducing the burn speed to see if that helps. You could try another burn engine,but try burning them at 2.4x or 4x max.
I actually checked one I burned on ANY Dvd software. It said it burned it as a data dvd. How can I get it to not burn as data, and a regular all around readable dvd???
@James5475 Do you mean clonedvd by chance? I've never heard of anydvd burning software. When you say data dvd - what files are on it? Is there a video_ts folder on the disc?
@James5475 That's normal for AnyDVD to show the media as a DataDVD. As long as you have a video_ts folder containing files your fine. Here's a pick of one of my backups - originals will show as data dvd's too:
If your disc plays fine in some players and skips on your magnavox, I would assume it is a problem with your media. CompUSA uses some of the worst media around and attaches their name to it. I would purchase better media and try it again. Just for the heck of it, use Nero CD-DVD Speed or Info Tool and post the manufacturer info.
@James5475 - i'm gonna be a spoilsport, i'm afraid no email addresses in the forums so have removed it
