Dvd Burning Problem With Disc Copier

[sneubert]

Hello:

 

I am new to DVD burning and would appreciate any help anyone can offer. I cannot burn/copy a DVD in Disc Copier. It gets about 50% completed and just stops with error messages that it can no longer go on. I have used Disc Copier many times in copying CD-R's.

 

The source DVD is a mini DVD-r of my children. The destination is a standard sized DVD-r.

 

Here's what I am running:

Windows XP

1 Gigabyte of memory

Pentium P4

2.5 GHz

Compaq Presario S5300NX (purchased in October 2003)

DVD Player = IDE-DVD ROM 16X (came with computer)

DVD/CD Rewritable Drive = Sony DVD +-R dual layer/double layer (bought & installed yesterday).

 

Thank you in advance for any suggestions and advice. I appreciate your help.

 

Lisa

[james_hardin]

Hello:

 

I am new to DVD burning and would appreciate any help anyone can offer. I cannot burn/copy a DVD in Disc Copier. It gets about 50% completed and just stops with error messages that it can no longer go on. I have used Disc Copier many times in copying CD-R's.

 

The source DVD is a mini DVD-r of my children. The destination is a standard sized DVD-r.

 

Here's what I am running:

Windows XP

1 Gigabyte of memory

Pentium P4

2.5 GHz

Compaq Presario S5300NX (purchased in October 2003)

DVD Player = IDE-DVD ROM 16X (came with computer)

DVD/CD Rewritable Drive = Sony DVD +-R dual layer/double layer (bought & installed yesterday).

 

Thank you in advance for any suggestions and advice. I appreciate your help.

 

Lisa

 

The source must be Finalized by the camcorder.

 

If it is try copying it as a disc image (iso) from either your ROM drive or you Burner drive to your HD.

 

If successful, use DC or Builder to copy the iso file to a blank disc.

[sneubert]

The source must be Finalized by the camcorder.

 

If it is try copying it as a disc image (iso) from either your ROM drive or you Burner drive to your HD.

 

If successful, use DC or Builder to copy the iso file to a blank disc.

 

Hello:

 

The DVD-R disc is finalized by the camcorder. Can you please direct me to where/how to copy it as a disc image from my drive to my HD?

 

Thank you,

 

Lisa

[james_hardin]

Hello:

 

The DVD-R disc is finalized by the camcorder. Can you please direct me to where/how to copy it as a disc image from my drive to my HD?

 

Thank you,

 

Lisa

 

With Disc Copier…

 

Plan B would be to copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the disc to your HD with Explorer.

 

What I am trying to confirm is that there is not some problem preventing the files/disc from being copied.

[sneubert]

With Disc Copier…

 

Plan B would be to copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the disc to your HD with Explorer.

 

What I am trying to confirm is that there is not some problem preventing the files/disc from being copied.

 

Hello:

 

Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me.

 

I was able to copy the mini DVD-R to a DVD via the Disc Creator option in Roxio, version 6. However, I really wanted to be able to add to the DVD because the minis are only 20 mins each. But I have two problems:

 

1. I cannot add to it. When I go to details to change the Record Methods (it is set at Disc @ Once), all other methods are gray out and I cannot access them, such as Finalize Session, Don't Finalize Disc, which is what I think I need.

 

2. The recorded DVD will play in my computer, but not on my DVD player, which is a Toshiba, purchased this year.

 

Do you have any idea why I cannot select other record method options and why my DVD will not play on my DVD player? Thank you for all your help,

 

Lisa

[lynn98109]

I will leave answering the question for James.

 

However, I will suggest you invest in a DVD-RW to play with until you get it the way you want it. If it doesn't work, just erase the DVD/RW and reuse it.

 

Just don't use an RW disc to keep anything, because RW media fades out as the re-crystalized aluminum alloy de-crystalizes, taking all the data with it.

 

Lynn

[james_hardin]

Hello:

 

Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me.

 

I was able to copy the mini DVD-R to a DVD via the Disc Creator option in Roxio, version 6. However, I really wanted to be able to add to the DVD because the minis are only 20 mins each. But I have two problems:

 

1. I cannot add to it. When I go to details to change the Record Methods (it is set at Disc @ Once), all other methods are gray out and I cannot access them, such as Finalize Session, Don't Finalize Disc, which is what I think I need.

 

2. The recorded DVD will play in my computer, but not on my DVD player, which is a Toshiba, purchased this year.

 

Do you have any idea why I cannot select other record method options and why my DVD will not play on my DVD player? Thank you for all your help,

 

Lisa

 

Classic is very hard to use for creating DVD's. Movie DVDs are not simply a collection of files like a computer would be able to use. They require specific file formats and content and the disc must be formatted in a manner that is compliant with DVD Players.

 

Please confirm that the folder you have copied is called VIDEO_TS and not VIDEO_VR.

 

The first step is get from the mini-disc to a working DVD Movie disc. Then we can talk about ways to combine multiple discs. It is a horse-cart situation…

 

If the folder is VIDEO_TS you should be able to Import from that folder into DVD Builder.

 

From there you will be able to burn the project to DVD. Again, I stress using RW media for now.