I have a five-minute AVI that I'm trying to put on DVD. I followed bbmayo's step-by-step instructions here http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/AVItoDVD.html. Everything went perfectly until about three minutes into the final step, running DVD Decrypter to write to the DVD, when an error message popped up, saying "Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format." I checked the disc, and all of the files seemed to be on it, so I popped it in a DVD player. The movie started fine but froze after about five seconds. A brief internet search for people with the same problem suggested that it might have just been a bad disc, so I tried another disc and got the same error message. Again, the movie will play for about five seconds and freeze. Here is the log for DVD Decrypter -- I 11:46:17 DVD Decrypter Version 3.5.4.0 started! I 11:46:17 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 11:46:17 Initialising SPTI... I 11:46:17 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 11:46:18 Found 1 CD-ROM and 1 DVD±RW! I 11:47:13 Operation Started! I 11:47:13 Source File: C:\MOVIE.ISO I 11:47:13 Source File Sectors: 120,632 (MODE1/2048) I 11:47:13 Source File Size: 247,054,336 bytes I 11:47:13 Source File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink I 11:47:13 Destination Device: [0:1:0] DVDRW DRW-3S163 BSG2 (E (ATA) I 11:47:13 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MXL RG02) (Speeds: 4x) I 11:47:13 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496 I 11:47:13 Write Mode: DVD I 11:47:13 Write Type: SAO I 11:47:13 Write Speed: 4x I 11:47:13 Link Size: Auto I 11:47:13 Test Mode: No I 11:47:13 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 11:47:13 Filling Buffer... I 11:47:14 Writing LeadIn... I 11:48:05 Writing Image... W 11:51:26 Failed to Write Sectors 1632 - 1663 - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:26 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (5 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (6 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (7 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (8 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (9 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (10 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (11 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (12 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (13 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (14 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (15 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (16 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (17 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (18 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (19 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format W 11:51:27 Retrying (20 of 20)... W 11:51:27 Retry Failed! - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format E 11:51:38 Failed to Write Sectors 1632 - 1663 - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format I 11:51:38 Synchronising Cache... E 11:51:38 Failed to Write Image! E 11:51:38 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:04:25 I 11:51:38 Average Write Rate: 15 KB/s (0.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 328 KB/s (0.2x) Any suggestions?
OK, so I downloaded Nero Burning ROM and used that to write the files in Video_TS to the disc, and everything works fine. But if anyone knows what the problem was with DVD Decypter, I'd be grateful.
