Unspecified target error!! HELP

[groovemaster1]

After encoding a dvd with DVD Shrink 3.2 & inserting a blank liteon DVD-R. It starts lead in & then Unspecified target error Liteon DVD-RW SOHW 832S VS0B. I cancelled & the disc main menu shows but when I play it goes back to the main menu. What caused this. How to prevent this in the future. Half of the disc appears burned. HELP !!!!!

[cynthia]

You could post the log file. What burning program do you use?

[groovemaster1]

No log file. I used nero 6 that came with the burner. Why when I finalise a session on a dvd-r nothing cannot be added? It burns but cannot be seen on explorer?

[cynthia]

Re: Unspecified target error!! HELP

Originally posted by groovemaster1
Half of the disc appears burned.

You did cancel the burning so it's true that only one half got burn.

[cynthia]

Originally posted by groovemaster1
No log file.

Check out this location on your hard disk: C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroHistory.log

[setarip]

"I used nero 6 that came with the burner."

You should probably download and install the latest update available from the Ahead NERO website...

[kinetik]

Your compilation size is too big.
Try reducing its size by a few megabytes.
it should work.

[blutach]

Not sure of that one kintetik. Even Nero shouldn't start to burn if the size to be written is too big for the meia.

Regards

[nwg]

Nero won't start burnng as it will come up with a "Files are too big" type message otherwise, a coaster will be made each time.

BTW, this is a bit of a old thread.

[blutach]

A bloke a d9's ifo/vob editors revived a 2-year old one the other day nwg!

Must be some sorta record

Regards

[kinetik]

Well, I search forums wide and far because I was having this exact problem and no one had a clue.

I burned many discs ok with a memorex burner on memorex dvd+r.

I realized the the previous movie that I burned OK was at the 4 gig size, well below the max size. I looked at the movies that were failing, movies that I had to shrink with dvd-shrink, and I saw that both of them were showing sizes of something like 4.35 GB (4,680,847,360). The logical size is small enough but the physical size is too big. I wouldn't have thought the physical size would ever matter. maybe it doesn't. But what I did was reshrink the DVDs and made it a bit smaller that dvd-shrink had set it to.

I was then able to burn the compilations successfully. This worked on two movies that failed to burn (failed multiple times).

[groovemaster1]

I think the problem is either windows ME or the fact that I have Nero 6.6 & Roxio 6 platinum, probably conflicting!
I'm building a new system & will install nero alone. Hopefully that will solve my problem

[blutach]

Better still, while you are disposing of Roxio, do the same to Nero. Burn with DVD Decrypter instead and throw away your blues.

Regards