Ok guys heres a mystery. I have backed up close to 1k movies from my collection. (My kids and wife are VERY hard on discs to the point that I recently decided to build a media PC) My wife is a Professional Dancer/Dance Teacher and I have converted over 300 performances from Camcorder -> AVI -> VOB then use Shrink [and Nero] to fit and burn files onto DVD's. Im telling you all this to prove my chops and to show that I am not a noob. I converted and burned an AVI last week succesfully and then we left for a week to go out of town where my wife taught a week long master class at a college. When we returned I did everything exactly the same but the discs will not play on my stand alone. The load play maybe 1/2 second then says the discs are scratched. [3 proven stand alone dvd players.] Yet they work on my PC just fine. [Tried 12 times now] I have tried the following: -Different AVI files [even ones I that have worked before] -Different Media [3 brands, all from stacks that have worked before] -Tried backing up a DVD [Works great] -Made sure DVD burner has current Firmware. [It does] -Tried on 3 different Stand alone DVD players that have been proven to play both DVD+R and DVD-R. I use a USB cable to bring the files over from the Cam. [Cant be the problem because I tried AVI files that I converted and burned fine last week and they mess up also.] I then use VSO DivxToDvd to convert to VOB files. [I changed no settings and even uninstlled/reinstalled the program. Converted files play fine on the PC.] I then use Shrink/Nero to put onto a DVD [Again backing up a DVD works great, while converted AVI now VOB files only play for a fraction of a second then I get the scratched Disc messege.] Any help would be great. Im at a loss here. I guess Ill bring my work computer home tomorrow and try to run them through on that. but what the hell could be causing this???? ~Talath
To touch another base, from Nero Tools select CD-DVD Speed tool and 'Scan Disc' to check one of the 'bad' disks.
100% good on the disc scan. Still isnt working for me. (Not that I have had that much time to work on it since my last messege). Ill try another converter tomorrow evening to see if that fixes it. ~Talath
