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  • Ivandervaeren
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2004
    • 12

    Unformatted/Unfinalized DVD-R after burn

    Hi guys,

    Wonder if so could help...

    I've been trying to burn 2 different media brands in DVD-R recently, t.i. Princo (id code: Princo) and Ridisc (id code: Ritek G04) and it appears that the two of them won't play on my Himage DVD player nor on my PC drive after I burned them.

    It seems like the DVD won't finalize or something like that. Could anyone tell me if there is any way I could finalize these DVD's now that they're burnt? And is it a finalise-problem actually?

    Thanks for your help! I bought 50 of these and I hope they're not for the trash.

    Here is what I got from DVD identifier:

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD-RRINCO]
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Disc Type : [DVD-R]
    Manufacturer ID : [PRINCO]
    Manufacturer Name : [Princo Corp.]
    Disc Application Code : [Unrestricted Use : Consumer Purpose]
    Recording Speeds : [1x , 2x , 4x] (8x Cannot Be Detected)
    Blank Disc Capacity : [2,298,496 Sectors = 4,489.3MB = 4.38GB (4.71GB)]
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [DVD Identifier - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com]
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------


    ** INFO : Hex Dump Of 'Media Code'-Block Listed Below
    ** INFO : 4-Byte Header Preceding 'Media Code'-Block Discarded
    ** INFO : Format 0Eh - Pre-Recorded Information In Lead-In
    0000 : 01 40 c1 fd 9e d8 52 00 02 97 0e 0b 77 88 70 00 .@....R.....w.p.
    0010 : 03 50 52 49 4e 43 4f 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .PRINCO.........
    0020 : 05 aa a2 22 22 20 01 00 06 0b 0f 12 87 77 80 00 ..."" .......w..
    0030 : 07 88 80 00 00 00 00 00 08 01 1b 0d 10 0d 08 00 ................
    0040 : 09 99 0a 11 0d 6f 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 .....o..........
    0050 : 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    0060 : 0d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    0070 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    0080 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    0090 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    00a0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    00b0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    00c0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    00d0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    00e0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    00f0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................


    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD-R:RITEKG04]
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Disc Type : [DVD-R]
    Manufacturer ID : [RITEKG04]
    Manufacturer Name : [Ritek Co.]
    Disc Application Code : [Unrestricted Use : Consumer Purpose]
    Recording Speeds : [1x , 2x , 4x] (8x Cannot Be Detected)
    Blank Disc Capacity : [2,298,496 Sectors = 4,489.3MB = 4.38GB (4.71GB)]
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [DVD Identifier - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com]
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    ** INFO : Hex Dump Of 'Media Code'-Block Listed Below
    ** INFO : 4-Byte Header Preceding 'Media Code'-Block Discarded
    ** INFO : Format 0Eh - Pre-Recorded Information In Lead-In
    0000 : 01 40 c1 fd 9e d8 52 00 02 76 0e 14 88 9a 80 00 .@....R..v......
    0010 : 03 52 49 54 45 4b 47 00 04 30 34 00 00 00 00 00 .RITEKG..04.....
    0020 : 05 88 80 00 00 00 01 00 06 08 12 11 86 67 80 00 .............g..
    0030 : 07 88 80 00 00 00 00 00 08 05 1b 0e 10 08 09 00 ................
    0040 : 09 97 06 0d 0b 80 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 ................
    0050 : 0b 04 1d 18 a8 88 85 00 0c 89 ac 88 80 00 00 00 ................
    0060 : 0d 00 00 d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  • cynthia
    Super Moderatress
    • Jan 2004
    • 14278

    #2
    Did you solve the problem with your firmware according to this post?

    Talk about converting to DVDs, encoding in MPEG-2 for DVD compliance, as well as DVD playback and DVD region-free discussions


    Could be that the hacked firmware is the trouble.

    Princos can be tricky to burn without the right firmware.
    Last edited by cynthia; 18 Oct 2004, 06:32 AM.

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    • Ivandervaeren
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Aug 2004
      • 12

      #3
      Ok but the hacked firmware stands for the DVD-ROM drive (Mat****a) whereas I burnt my Princo with my DVD-/+ RW drive LiteOn 851S (with official firmware GS0K)

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      • cynthia
        Super Moderatress
        • Jan 2004
        • 14278

        #4
        And the latest is GSOM.

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        • Ivandervaeren
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Aug 2004
          • 12

          #5
          Yeah, it was, but it's been taken off because there were some problems with this latter. It is no more on their site.

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          • cynthia
            Super Moderatress
            • Jan 2004
            • 14278

            #6
            Another handy tool is this - the OmniPatcher for LiteOn DVD-Writers:


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            • Ivandervaeren
              Junior Member
              Junior Member
              • Aug 2004
              • 12

              #7
              Thanks! I guess I'll try that...

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              • cynthia
                Super Moderatress
                • Jan 2004
                • 14278

                #8
                I wish I had a Lite-on burner or that there was such a program for Nec...

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                • setarip
                  Retired
                  • Dec 2001
                  • 24955

                  #9
                  To Ivandervaeren

                  If you are using NERO for burning your DVDs, make certain it is set to NO "Multisession". Also make certain it is set to "Disc-at-once"...

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                  • Ivandervaeren
                    Junior Member
                    Junior Member
                    • Aug 2004
                    • 12

                    #10
                    I'm actually using Intervideo DVD Copy Platinum to do the hole job (rip and burn) but I just used Smartburn tool from Liteon and I see that both Princo and Ridisc DVD-R's I used have a nominal capacity of 7.82GB!! Isn't it strange? Should be 4.38 (4.7) GB, shouldn't it?

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                    • cynthia
                      Super Moderatress
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 14278

                      #11
                      Think you should use DVDShrink first - to get the size down so it would fit on a DVD5.

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                      • Ivandervaeren
                        Junior Member
                        Junior Member
                        • Aug 2004
                        • 12

                        #12
                        Ok that I knew but fact is that it is the nominal capacity I'm talking about. Besides, I inserted a blank dvd too and it said the same: 7.82GB nominal capacity! So I guess it is the max. capacity a dvd could allow.

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                        • setarip
                          Retired
                          • Dec 2001
                          • 24955

                          #13
                          "I inserted a blank dvd too and it said the same: 7.82GB nominal capacity!"

                          That would be the approximate capacity of a DOUBLE-LAYERED DVD. Unless you paid approximately $10 apiece for the blanks, I doubt that this is what you have.

                          Perhaps you're misinterpreting something in the readout from your software...

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                          • Ivandervaeren
                            Junior Member
                            Junior Member
                            • Aug 2004
                            • 12

                            #14
                            No, not at all. That's the point actually. I paid around $12 for a 25 box but maybe I misinterpret "nominal capacity". What does it mean exactly? And is there any way I could finalize a DVD-R once it is burnt?

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                            • cynthia
                              Super Moderatress
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 14278

                              #15
                              For that price is must be 4.7 Gb DVDs. Download this program and put one of your discs in to your reader/burner and find out what they really can fit. www.dvdinfopro.com

                              Once you have burnt a DVD-R it's "closed" forever.

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