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[Phil4089]

Brand new Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop.
TSSTCorp DVD +/-R, +/-RW, double layer DVD burner drive.

Recently used EMC 9 to create a music DVD using Quick Music DVD and also tried using Music disc creator. The DVD seemed to burn ok, no errors. I watched it create the menus, burn the mp3's, create the music dvd, and finalize the disc.
I try to play this music dvd in my drive and the drive won't read it. Light just blinks forever until I open the drive and take dvd out. Tried it on another new dell computer, same thing. Tried it on my home DVD player and it won't read it. Tried it on another home DVD player and it says incorrect disc. Roxio disc info says its a blank DVD. When I put the dvd in and choose burn again it shows it as a single session dvd, not blank, so I know it burned the first time. I tried it three times with 3 different kinds of dvd's and get the same results.
What am I doing wrong? Why can't I get any dvd drive or player to read/play the music dvd?

Thanks,
Phil

[tbrewst]

First thing is that the disc is basically a DVD movie with no video and an extended sound track.So any player that will play a DVD movie should play it.That being said,any that I've created I've only had problems in the creation stage.If they finished they played.
On your home players are you sure that they play the format (+,-) discs that you used?
Why it would show as blank in disc info and then as single session on the burn screen I'm not sure.You're sure you saw it finalize?The symptoms you relate are sometimes caused by an open disc.

[Phil4089]

tbrewst, on Nov 14 2006, 07:39 AM, said:

First thing is that the disc is basically a DVD movie with no video and an extended sound track.So any player that will play a DVD movie should play it.That being said,any that I've created I've only had problems in the creation stage.If they finished they played.
On your home players are you sure that they play the format (+,-) discs that you used?
Why it would show as blank in disc info and then as single session on the burn screen I'm not sure.You're sure you saw it finalize?The symptoms you relate are sometimes caused by an open disc.

I'm not sure that my home player will play all the different kinds of DVD discs. I did create a video dvd-r with EMC 8 and my home dvd played it fine.
I tried 3 times. I know the first failed cause I never saw it finalize. I second I'm not sure cause I let it run over night and didn't see if it finalized or not. When I got up it appeared to be done. The third I just put like 10 songs on and watched the whole process. It did finalize. This was with DVD+r disc. I'm gonna try DVD-r tonight and see what happens. I thought it was an open disc too. If it doesn't close properly is there I way I can finalize it?

[tbrewst]

I'm pretty sure that the finalization is just part of the process.You might be able to use the Drive and Disc utility to try and finalize it if it shows open.Not sure that would work.

[Phil4089]

tbrewst, on Nov 14 2006, 08:02 AM, said:

I'm pretty sure that the finalization is just part of the process.You might be able to use the Drive and Disc utility to try and finalize it if it shows open.Not sure that would work.

I'll try that. I'm gonna try different media tonight. I did manage to burn two video dvd's last night with EMC9 and they worked fine. I'll keep trying. Thanks.

[Phil4089]

Update:
I finally got music DVD's to work. I changed one option when burning. On all the previously failed tries I checked the box to close the burning dialog box when the dvd was done. This time I unchecked that box and I noticed what was happening. With the box checked to close the dialog box when done, during finalization it gets to 100% and then the dialog box closes, but the disc is not done being finalized cause the drive light is still flickering. On the failed ones when the dialog box closed I assumed it was done and ejected the disc, but it really was not done. This time I unchecked that box and noticed that when finalization gets to 100% the disc is not really done until the burn dialog box says ready. Once it says ready about 5-10 minutes after finalization says 100% its safe to eject and it works fine. So it looks like maybe its a bug, that with that option checked the dialog box is closing to soon, before the disc is actually done.

Phil

[tbrewst]

Glad you got it.I didn't even think of that as a possibility as I never have that box checked.