How do I burn standard format (DVD-Video)?

Thanks very much for your generosity in time. You have been a lifesaver.

Best regards,
Gene

 

Hi Binkie7,

Well, here I am again feeling like I'm back to square one. I have a Sony DRX-710UL DVD burner. Everything was running fine (thanks to your help a while back), being able to burn using the CD-ROM setting on Nero Express at the 4x speed. Then I had a virus and had to re-install windows xp and ever since then, I haven't been able to burn files that

I know they are good, burnable files. I have been using a wedding video files that I had made who know how many copies to date so I know these are good files. I've tried doing a standard backitup on Nero to a +R DVD as a data disk. It says the burning was complete but it stalls when I try to verify.

I tried using the DVD Identifier program on the blank disc to verify it's working and it shows it as a blank +R disc. After I attempt to burn the DVD and it finishes, I try the DVD Identifier program again and I get: "ERROR : Unable to Initialize disc in Time : Not Ready - Logical unit not ready [02/04/01]".

I can burn these files on a -R disc without the DVD-ROM setting and it works. Actually, -R is not compatible with DVD-Rom so I'm told but the fact remains I can play the -R burned disc on my DVD player (it plays many formats). However, when I try the +R discs on the DVD-Rom setting (nero 6.6), it won't play in the DVD player or on the computer. I've even tried burning the +R disc putting it on the automatic setting and the same thing. I tried making a disc to disc copy with no luck.

I have a stack of about 10 dvd's I've gone through trying to trace down what I think the problem is NOT and what I'm left with is basically, software. There has to be a setting somewhere I'm unaware of. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Nero 6.3 and the 6.6 update about 4 times. Could it be a Windows XP driver setting?

When this was working, I was using Nero Express. I would add the video files in the TS-Video folder and go to the Final Burn Settings page. There I would click on options making sure the Book Type setting is on DVD-ROM. I would uncheck the "Automatically adapt write speed to disc" since I am setting the write speed at 4x (that was the only speed I could get it to work on before). I'm unsure as to whether I need the "DVD high compatibility mode" checked or the "Write extended lead-out on double-layer dics" checked. I think I left the DVD high comp. checked and the Write extended unchecked before when this was working.

Then I would click OK, change the write speed to 4x and burn. No problem before but now, I can't get it to play.

I thought it might be a hardware problem. But, it reads rental DVD's and other I previously burned fine. Is there a separate read and write head in these burners so it can play but just not record?

I thought about buying another model burner just to see if it is a hardware problem but all my elmination processes point to software but I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point.

Can you help? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Gene