Need a bit of help n advice (noob!).

[jay2o]

Hi all.
Need a bit of advice hope you can help. The problem is, after ive burnt a dvd back up when played back it pixelates and freezes after about 20 mins
I'm using the following:

Liteon SOHW-1673S (stock firmware).
Ritek G05 DVD-R Printable surface.(only started having trouble lately, burnt the first 150 ok)


Done the disc test in nero

Starting file test
Error reading D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.VOB
Error reading D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.VOB
Error reading D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_5.VOB
Files: 15
Directories: 2
Size: 2694 MB
Errors: 3
Speed: 2.6 X (3541 KB/sec)
File test completed
Starting surface scan
Good: 60.09 %
Damaged: 0.00 %
Unreadable: 39.91 %
Surface scan completed

so any help would be great.

Jay.

I'll pop my set up in just in case.

XP Home
Amd 64 3000+
1 Gig ddr 400 adata dual channel
Asus A8N-Sli Premium board
WD 160g drive SATA (my 250 just broke on me grrr)
6600 GT card
Mercury 450W PSU
..Oh and a couple of card readers.

[Chewy]

welcome to the forum

cpu the ram and hard drive should not be an issue

your choice of blank media couldn't be much worse, they are extremely undependable and known to degrade faster than almost any other disk

bottom line, they suck

as your burner ages, that's an older model expect disks that barely worked before to not work anymore

see the sticky about posting a nero log in this forum, we might be able to help you, don't expect those G05's to stay readable for very long tho

[jay2o]

kk will do, n thanks.

[Brian Fisher]

I can chime in on this also,

You should consider trying some Taiyo Yuden discs. That would be the first place I would go. The Taiyos are excellent quality and if you still have problems with these then you know its not the media blanks and you can look at other less likely factors. I suspect it probably is the ritek discs.

Brian Fisher

[src2206]

Or may be Verbatim. I have used another one, Postec. that also provides good quality. Tested it and compared with verbatim. You need to understand that the brand name may not be the exact identification of the quality of the media. For example I have a Sony RW, which basically uses a third grade media (or coating as some prefer to say). There is a free tool which can tell you what is the manufacturer's ID for a media, but sorry I can't remember the name. Another way is to check with ImgBurn. If you run ImgBurn with your media inserted it will show you the exact manufacturer ID in its log window.

[paglamon]

There is a free tool which can tell you what is the manufacturer's ID for a media, but sorry I can't remember the name.

DVD Identifier.

Shubho Bijoya Srijanbabu.

[src2206]

Thanks paglamon

Forgot the name

[jay2o]

Thanks all for your advice, much appricated. Could you gimme the up on these, are they any good before i buy them.

Optiarc (Sony/NEC) AD-7170A-01 18x ...burner
LiteOn DH-16D2P-02C Black... reader
TDK DVD-R47PWWCBED100 ...discs

Thanks
Jay.

[Chewy]

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1793&prepg=2

fair drive

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=2146&prepg=2

best for dual layer burning

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=228&prepg=

tdk's are awful