some dvd's wont play

[giftedonetwo]

I have been backing up our dvd's for a while now, I have about 50. Thay all play in my player, everything is compadable according to the links I found. I have 4 movies that burned successfully but will not play in my dvd player it keeps searching but fails. I used nero and the newest dvd shrink. Please help.

[jmet]

What DVD Player do you have? Are those 4 movies you burned on a different brand of DVD-R recordable disk? Maybe a cheap special they had at Best Buy or something?

[giftedonetwo]

Thats a negative, I have all the same dvd's, HP. I have the sony DVD-NS725P

[setarip]

"I have 4 movies that burned successfully but will not play in my dvd player"

Do these burned DVDs paly properly on your PC?

[raels]

my dvd's are not closing. I can play them in burner but that is all

[jmet]

@ raels - What program are you using to burn your back ups?

[raels]

I use dvd shrink and it burns on nero
but for some reason it is not closing the dvd.s and I don't know how to close them. They play in my burner but that is all

[cynthia]

You could post your logfile from Nero.

[giftedonetwo]

The movies will not register on a PC either, its like the DVD didnt close out properly, but I was told everything was successful. What I find funny is ill back up 5 movies in a row, exactly the same way with the same DVD media, but the third DVD is bad, everything else is fine. I dont understand.

[jmet]

Could be "bad disc" out of the bunch. If they won't even play in the computer, its 1 of 2 things more than likely.

1. That recording format (ie. +r or -r) is not compatible with your DVD burner.

2. Even though you getting a message saying burn successful, you may not be doing the correct compilation style. You want "DVD-Video" in Nero.

What program are you using to burn?

[giftedonetwo]

They are all +r disks and the dvd burner is also +r. I use nero to burn, I set dvd shrink to automatically burn with nero

[raels]

I can only burn in -R and I don't think it is the disks because have tried 3 different brands Is there a way to close a disc after it has been burnt