Something is strange, you say the disc is 16X whereas DVDDecrypter indicates it as 2X, I dont know why this is but you said DVDDecrypter stopped working suddenly, maybe someone can enlighten me.
It looks like there are some things not checked off in the nero burn page it should say session closed, disc fixated. and Make sure the box is checked that says Finalize disc no further writing is possible and turn on the DVD high compatiblity mode. That was from burning rom. You have to click on the options tab to see some of this stuff. It might not help, but that was all i could see that might be a problem. Also you could try a burn without aspi. Just use the killaspi program, and it will remove the aspi layers. Sometimes a new aspi installed over a corrupt one will cause problems. Its better to have no system aspi, or a working one, but not a corrupted one. Nero didnt report anything wrong with aspi according to that log. You can also check aspi with nero info tool It should come up green if aspi is ok, yellow if system aspi is missing, and red if system aspi is corrupted. Also there could be something wrong with the image/movie you were trying to burn. Is the failure on this movie or file only? Check out alkohol's guide on using Nero: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/256436 Its a good thread, even if you think you know how to do a rip, its best to look thru that to see if you are having problems with some of your settings. Also a blank disc needs to be in the drive [bold]before[/bold] you open up the burn page, or it will not list the correct burn speeds in the burn pulldown menu. Thats all i can see that might be a problem.
Thanks for your input! I'll go thru your checkpoints when home from office tonight. The aspi has gone thru killAspi so the old one was removed. I also believe that it came out green in Nero. I'll try the High compability and No further writing possible (usually has this option of course but I slipped in those logs). And if this don't work, what are the odds that the drive is fried? Nearly 1:1 i guess.
Hi all again. Tonight I went thru the last steps that max could think of. The result was negative. Could not obtain any new discs today so I erased an old TDK DVD+RW (Taiwan made) and tried to burn the image on that one. Sad/happy to say that it works like a charm! Happy because my burner is somewhat ok. Sad that I have a stack of markets' finest Verbatims to no use. Guess I'll have to track down a brand that I can use. Could it be then that the firmware for my Philips SDVD6004 doesn't support the discs? Anyway, thanks for your support and efforts to help me, while the solution was waiting in a cupboard right behind me. Burn on y'all!
Update. Today I succeded in burning my Verbatim discs with DVD Decrypter. Nero won't take them cause maximum write rate according to DVD Decr. is 2x speed for my drive. Nero does only show 2.4x as a possible speed. But when I set the correct speed to DVD Decr. it worked! From DVD Decrypter Media info:
