Playback of recorded home movies

[varflow]

I have a LG LH-T9654S DVD surround player. It's about 3 years old. I play home moves that I've recorded as well as recorded TV shows and stuff on it. When the player was new and for quite a while after it would play those recorded disks with no problems at all. These days when a recorded dvd is put in it will only play it on the first try about once in every 4 attempts. If the player does not recognize the disk I can open and close the disk drawer and let it retry. After a couple of times of doing this it will recognize the DVD and will play it. This does not happen with retail movies.

I have cleaned the player with a lens cleaner.
I use good quality DVD's (Verbatim media ID MCC004).

These are the disks I have always used. Older Disks that once played on the first try now require multiple attempts before they play as well as brand new recordings now.

Once they play they play with no problems at all, no pixilation or jumping of any kind.

When these same disks are put into a chepo DVD player I have they all play on the first try.

I have been burning DVD's for a long time and know what I am doing. I have read this forum extensively and know most of the tricks and pitfalls. I am confident that the DVD's are good and it's the player that is at fault because prior to buying this LG player I owned a pioneer DVD surround that did the same thing, played the burned disks at first then started giving problems(and those same DVD's that started giving the Pioneer problems worked fine on the LG at first, now those same dvd's are the ones causing the LG problems). Does anyone know how or why it would be doing this? I really don't want to buy another player again.

[doctorhardware]

It sounds like the laser in the DVD player is getting weak and causing your playability problems. If the DVD that did not play in the Pioneer played in the LG. Now you are having that same problem you did before. There is one way to verify the disks is to use Nero CDspeed and verify the disk. The pi errors should be under 1000 which is good. If it is over that it can cause playability issues.

[varflow]

The PI errors (on one disk I tested) were 180. The PI failures were 3. You think it's a weak laser? Would that account for retail disks still working ok? If that's it, it's probably not worth fixing the unit is it?

[doctorhardware]

With the reading you have listed above I can say it is either a weak laser or a laser alignment issue. What type of DVD disks are you using, if it is DVD +R, are you setting the book type to DVD ROM which is what the commercial disks are. May be that might be the issue? Not sure on that one.

[Linda_Oi]

hi i did search but could find if ths is listed anywhereis there any way to choose to repeat one, a file that you have recorded. i wanted to loop a music video a lot without having to play it manually after it finishes. microsoft visual c runtime error abnormal program termination