Attn: Newbies... this is why you should NOT buy CMC MAG or any other unknown media...

dvd decrypter by itself (iso read---iso write) or use imgburn for the burning portion of it on DL has proven to work the best for ME~

i've got over 200+ Verbatim dvd+r DLs burned at this point, all of which have been perfect minus a few that i did on my laptop that didn't turn out so good~ LOL (this is a laptop burner issue, not media issue...laptop burners are just NOT AS GOOD as desktop internal burners for DL media - in MY experience and opinion of course)

docTy~

 

Yeah I just use DVD Decrypter for my DVD-9 backups. Those Verbs are great for DVD-9 PS2 backups, my modded PS2 handles them perfectly. I don't trust any other brand of DL media. Nothing short of TY/Maxell High Grade/Verb's graces the inside of my PS2.

 

I'v been trying to get Nero Cd/DVD Speed to work so I can run the qyt score , But it fail's to start the test.I uninstalled and reinstalled but no luck.
I have Nero OEM 6.6.1.4 & Nero Digital 3.1.0.25
Any thoughts?

 

Well it may not support your burner. What kind of burner do you have?

 

yeah ERICST lots of burner dont support the nero tools ,so it def. your burner

 

Here is a scan of Spirit Bear i did on the Sony MIT D-21 media. 6x burn with cloneDVD2 used. Not too bad, but Tys come out much better for me.


Im backing down from 8x burns after i saw pixillation and freezing on a copy i made of Imortal, and was watching it on a cheap cyberhome DVD player at a friends house. Now maybe its the player, and maybe im burning too fast. Ill go down to 4x if i have to, but 6x seems like a safe compromise right now. Didnt get around to doing a scan on that copy that froze. Cant seem to find it.

 

I have a LiteOn DL Burner.
Eric

 

ERICST - I believe most Lite-On burners use KPROBE.

 

Whats "KPROBE"?

 

I ran a test on a CMC disc today that I bought from Circuit City about a year ago(esa), here are the results...








http://home.comcast.net/~esteffen720/CMCTest.JPG

 

ERICKST - KPROBE is similiar to Nero CD/DVD Speed. However I would think Nero CD/DVD should work with your burner. It works with several other LiteOn's. If you have InCD installed, you may want to uninstall it. I believe that was causing conflicts with my Nero CD/DVD test. At least when I uninstalled it on mine, my Nero CD/DVD test started working with my BenQ.

 

How do I know if I have INCD?

 

This is from a 4 year old CMC Verbatim Data Life +. It is one of the very few i have kept as all the others died, or were transfered to TY media. This one seems to be doing ok. It came out with the same score as a Sony D-21 i posted earlier. It was burnt at 1x on a panasonic DVR i had. Scan looks better than i thought it would.


***edit to show incd check***
@ERICST
If you have Nero run info tools. Click on the Drivers Tab.
If you have INCD it will show up with something other than a n/a as mine shows in this example.


If you find it on your system, and want to burn DVDs, you should remove it with the zapper:
http://www.nero.com/nero6/enu/InCD_CleanTool.html

 

Or simply download K-probe as aabbccdd suggested. It's designed specifically for Liteon drives. You can find it here: http://www.cdrlabs.com/files/KP2Setup.exe

 

@Tokijin
Sorry, i didnt read the whole thread, and missed that ERICST was having a problem with getting Nero info tools to work.
I also use DVD Info Pro, and it has a free version.
K-Probe is a very good program also. I use Nero Info Tools mainly as that is what ive seen most post of here, and it does a good job. If info tools doesnt work, K-Probe is a good alternative.

 

You don't need to apologize. I've never used Nero Info Tool. The only reason I know about K-probe is from Alkohol and DocTY. At least your drive works with Nero CD/DVD Speed, mine (Sony DRU-810A) only measures max PIE's. It doesn't support PI/PO scanning. Cheers!

 

Here's a Verbatim DL burned on a Pioneer 109 at 6X. It's fairly good but I usually get a better scan with a SL disc. DL discs never seem to scan as well for me as the SL ones do although they all play OK. That is they do as long as I burn them with ImgBurn or DVD Decrypter. If I burn one with Nero I always get a DVD structure invalid message from AnyDVD and it won't always play on a DVD player. I usually solve that problem by just not using Nero for DL discs. This was sort of a waste putting this on a DL disc since it is only 6GB and would have compressed fine with DVD Shrink.

Dave

 

Ditto. I never get as a good results on DVD+R DL Verb's. I get good results, but not great. The only ones I've used are rated for 2.4x. Before I knew what I was doing, I would burn them at 4x. That resulted in some playback errors, so I dropped it down to 2x and that alleviated the issues. When is TY going to come out with DL discs? DocTY mentioned something about it, but nothing definite. Oh well Verb DL media beats the hell out of Ritek DL media. Cheers!

 

These are rated for 2.4X although it says on the package they are for up to 6X with compatible burners. I guess the Pioneer is one of the compatible burners since they burn OK at that speed. My BenQ will burn them at 4X, but I usually stick to the Pioneer since it is faster and I believe gives better burns. I usually stick with those two burners because My Lite-On and my LG don't automatically book type. If I forget to do it I can only play them on my computer which is no treat. None of my players will play DL unless it is book typed to DVD-ROM. I'd be afraid to try a -R DL since they can't be book typed. I have to copy this particular movie every now and then because my grand daughter likes it for some reason and she's always destroying or losing them.

Dave

 

WOW thats a pretty good scan for memorex ,not bad