works perfectly now... come to think of it.. maybe i download too many burning program that would the problem that mess up my drive. so you know any good burning program (which is free) that burns the subtitle with the avi file into dvd?
That's good news! What finally did the trick? Hmm the only one I can think of that free that you can add subs to is AVI2DVD. Decent but doesn't burn. By default will create an iso - you can use ImgBurn to burn that. Here's a guide - has decrypter burning but ImgBurn & Decrypter are from the same developer - ImgBurn is just the updated burner of decrypter. Guide
i believe is the dvd-ram update that did the kick. thank you for putting a lot of time helping me. really appreciate it