Help Finalising/closing Discs

[froggythrower]

Hello all, quick question, bought a VIDEO/DVD RECORDER and transfered all my VHS tapes to dvd, forgot to Finalise the discs in the machine, now the machine is broken and my discs won't play in other machines, can I finalise the discs with another program like DVDD using my PC ????

Any thoughts would be helpfull

[codajohn]

Does your PC read the disk?

[froggythrower]

Yeah, and when I open DVDD it says the DVD is not empty, but cannot open with Shrink or play with WINDVD, got a pioneer dvr109 burner, nothing wrong with it, and don't want to have to re-load and re-burn every one of these discs if I can help it.

[Chewy]

have you tried Imgburn?
tools/drive/close track-session-disk

[froggythrower]

Yes chewy, No luck, it says 'cannot write medium - incompatible format'

[Chewy]

will dvdd rip the disks?

or you might take them to another dvd recorder and close

[froggythrower]

The discs are never a problem,same brand I always use, and use them in DVDD no problem normally, just the ones that have been through the recorder it says that it doesn't like.

And yeah, thought of trying to finalise one in another recorder, going to ask my friends to see if any of them have one

[Chewy]

will dvdd rip the disks?

meant put the video on your hard drive and reburn? for my own info please?

since I don't have a recorder to test with?

[froggythrower]

No Chewy, DVDD will not open the disc, say's 'incompatible media'

But have managed to open them with Nero Vision Express 3, by using the 'open VR disc' function and burn to hard drive then re-burn

[Chewy]

mark another one up for nero, thanks for the tip

[NightTran]

the files you have in the disc is not dvd file or less then 1GB ?

[froggythrower]

no, there are small and large ones, some are 4 gb