[mark D]

I seem to have a real head scratcher. I have Windows XP Media Center 2005 and EMC 9 installed. For the most part everything works fairly well except a couple of things. The one that creates the most frustration is the inability to write to a DVD +R disk. I bought some TDK DVD +R 16x disks. When I use the DVD Copy to burn a DVD it gets about 9 % done and then it stops writing to the disk and seems to freeze. If you cancel it locks up the computer. You can sometimes stop enough processes but you end up having to hold the power button to shut off the computer.

The odd thing is that if I take the same DVD movie and burn it to a DVD +RW or -RW disk (I have TDK and Memorex) that works just fine. It has occasionally completed with the DVD +R disks but I have more coasters than working disks. It seems to complete about 45 MB before failing.

I can also use the Media Center to create a DVD of TV shows etc on the Re-writeable disks without any issues.

I do have trouble logging off (switching users) - Roxio_Central33.exe needs to be ended, it can't close by itself. And sometimes I can't start EMC 9 at all. Need to reboot the computer and then things are fine. I was going to write the version number exactly but it won't start right now and I am downloading the 9.1 update. (pretty big, 640 MB) and a TV show is being recorded.

There are no entries in the event logs.

I have a Dell Dimension 5150 with 2GB of RAM, dual 250 GB HD in a RAID array. Although the system gets pretty full at times, I do keep it defragmented and I have had failures when there was 50% of the disk free and no fragmentation....

The system has an Angel Dual Tuner card and an ATI Radeon X600 Video card.

The biggest mistake I can think I have made is that I have never removed the Dell Sonic RecordNow and RecordCopy software along with the Sonic Updater...... I didn't want to break what Media Center used to create disks...

Any suggestion or comment appreciated.

Forgot to mention that I have used Roxio Backup and put 3.8 GB onto one of the TDK disks that fail with Video. OOPS. It went as far as 100% then didn't finish and hung the machine to the point I needed to hard boot it... Just when I thought one thing worked fine.


Mark

This post has been edited by mark D: 23 October 2007 - 06:39 PM

[MarkR]

Sounds like your DVD+R disks are not compatible with your DVD writer. Check with the manufacturer for firmware updates. According to Philips, 16x should work.

This post has been edited by MarkR: 30 October 2007 - 11:59 AM

[mark D]

Sounds like your DVD+R disks are not compatible with your DVD writer. Check with the manufacturer for firmware updates. According to Philips, 16x should work.

Thanks but I don't believe that. Further information from my earlier post.

I followed the "Clean Install" post in the EMC 9 forum. Bad thing is that the process removes the Sonic stuff and low and behold it messed up MCE. Now I can't burn TV shows to disk anymore.. sigh. Good news is that the clean install has provided some success. I can now take DVD format movies on the HD and burn to ISO, then burn to disk. (Yes, those TDK 16x disks) so I am a little happier. I haven't tried burning directly to the disk from a DVD folder yet. Don't need another coaster right now and the extra steps do not seem any longer, in fact they might even be shorter...

All I need to figure out how to do is correct the MCE not being able to record to DVD.

Mark