I looked through the forums and didnt seem to find what I was looking for. Funny problem. I have memorex dvd+rw i am using. My question is this. I burned a video no problem and played it on my samsung dvdr player, played fine. i then realized I screwed up the burn and forgot the other two movies! So I went and redid the burn with the other movies and tried again and put in the my dvdr and it gave me the error the "disk cannot be played or recorded" I thought HUH it worked before! So I tested in my liteon drive and it worked. My question is, is this a problem with rw? or just this disk? I am just stumped as it plays fine on my dvd drive on my pc but not my dvd player, which played it fine before I rerecorded... Anyone have an ideas? thanks! Ryan
I have a Panasonic DVDR which uses DVD-RW and found out that if the disk was formatted on the recorder, it should be recorded to and also erased on the recorder;and disks that were formatted on the PC should be recorded and erased on the PC - of course it didn't matter where they were played. If the disks are mixed up (recorded on one and erased on the other, etc) they fail within a short time. Sometimes the disk could be rescued by doing a 'Full Erase' on the PC - but some could never be recovered. I now keep two sets;one for the PC and one for the recorder.
thats interesting to know! I did however do all the recording on the PC. This is what I did. 1st recording was pc, played on dvdr player, realized messed up and forgot additional movie, went back to pc rerecorded, back to dvdr player and no go... BTY was using DVD flick to ImgBurn. TS_folders then tried iso. Works fine on pc dvd though, but not on DVDR player. imgburn did says, there is data on this disk do you still want to proceed, I selected yes then it went to town. I wonder...would I have needed to COMPLETELY erased the disk before burning insead of letting imgburn write over it? Could that be the problem?
After clicking on the green triangle, Imgburn will pop-up a message asking to erase the disk. It takes a minute or so to do a quick erase - thirty minutes for a full erase. I only had to do a full erase when there were error messages from the software.
The problem you are seeing is due to a conflict in file formats. Your PC can read a great number of file formats, but your DVD player only recognizes the DVD-video format. Recording over the disc changed the format to a data format that your PC can read, but it stumps the DVD player. The solution is to completely erase the disc and record the movies over using the video format. A partial erasure will delete the file directory but not alter the disc's format. You have to completely erase the disc to wipe out the existing format also.
I am the biggest idiot. I ran the ISO in gspot and guess what...PAL. No wonder my play couldnt read it! Well back to the drawing board.
I would still start over as JoeRyan suggested when you get the right region. Make sure the disc gets closed when all the movies are on it so your DVD player will recognize it.
