DVD Burners & Softwear?

Originally Posted by gsmyth79

Try slowing down your burn speed. Go down to 4x and even 2x if you need to.

Yes, but the problem is that I have already slowed down the burning speed to 4x, from it's 12x capabilities.

Originally Posted by rherron

It's got to be something other than just Nero. Lots and lots of people burn with Nero error-free. What's running in the background when your burning the discs? What kind of system resources are you using when Nero is burning?

Rob

Nothing really, when I burn a CD or DVD, I always close out any open apps and just let it sit there and burn. The only extra processes that are running are those that are associated with the network I'm on, but those are very small and don't take much memory at all. In fact, it's IE that always takes up the most memory, but like I said, that gets closed.

[irishcrazy2005]

I have had this problem on two separate occasions (except that my discs usually never finished burning because the buffer would fail). On both occasions it was because the hard drive was going bad in my laptop. I would recommend going to your drive manufacturer's website and downloading the hard drive diagnostic tools. Run them and see if you have any problems.

Phil

Originally Posted by irishcrazy2005

I have had this problem on two separate occasions (except that my discs usually never finished burning because the buffer would fail). On both occasions it was because the hard drive was going bad in my laptop. I would recommend going to your drive manufacturer's website and downloading the hard drive diagnostic tools. Run them and see if you have any problems.

Phil

I will test it, but I would be really pissed if it was that problem, considering I just bought this new computer in August!

P.S. I tried using DVD Shrink to make a complete back-up copy of my DVD, and then tried to burn that DVD through Shrink, and I still got an error when I tested it!

I give up.

[TheMamba]

Originally Posted by irishcrazy2005

I have had this problem on two separate occasions (except that my discs usually never finished burning because the buffer would fail). On both occasions it was because the hard drive was going bad in my laptop. I would recommend going to your drive manufacturer's website and downloading the hard drive diagnostic tools. Run them and see if you have any problems.

Phil

Ditto. Or lack of drive space.

Originally Posted by TheMamba

Ditto. Or lack of drive space.

The lack of drive space may very well be the problem. I think I'm on to something.

When I ran Nero InfoTool, and took a look at the ASPI tab, it displays a message under ASPI that says "ASPI installation is corrupted". Do you think that might have anything to do with it? This is the system ASPI, the Nero ASPI claims to be working correctly.

And thanks by the way, I appreciate all of th feedback, you bet I do.

[TheMamba]

Ton of info on Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ASPI+...en-US:official

Originally Posted by TheMamba

Ton of info on Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ASPI+...en-US:official

Yea, I know, I looked at that already but as it turns out that Nero and most progams don't even use the system ASPI drivers. And the Nero ones are working fine, according to the program. So that's not the problem.

I did take a look at Nero's system requirements and it said that it requires at least 9 gb for temp files to burn a DVD. I have 1.5.

Do you guys all have 9gb free just to burn a friggin DVD?

[Five]

ok thanks for the md5, we just need one more. is that generated from the disc or from the files on your hd? another md5 from whichever one you didn't generate from will allow us to do a comparison.

also, are the results of scanning the files on your hd with dvdshrink good whereas scanning the dvd you burned they are not?

oh yeah, that prob of your buffer going waaay up and waaay down is not a good sign... could possibly be a hardware issue with your burner.

Originally Posted by Five

ok thanks for the md5, we just need one more. is that generated from the disc or from the files on your hd? another md5 from whichever one you didn't generate from will allow us to do a comparison.

also, are the results of scanning the files on your hd with dvdshrink good whereas scanning the dvd you burned they are not?

oh yeah, that prob of your buffer going waaay up and waaay down is not a good sign... could possibly be a hardware issue with your burner.

Yea, I re-read your original post and realized that you wanted to sets. The one I originally posted was from the files on my hard drive.

I'm creating ones from the burned disc as I type this.

OK, now here is the .md5 from the burned disc.

[diggrd]

They match till you get here

HD
0cc3e84d0c2de8977823c18e766b27b5 *VTS_02_1.VOB
b7e630372629dc14b9d2c38b90ac6595 *VTS_02_2.VOB
ed39d54f852fbcabdac99878074cf78f *VTS_02_3.VOB
f74049993094fe1ee8e03128cafe374b *VTS_02_4.VOB

Burned
3b743098a87d41db57e94cea227e32cd *VTS_02_1.VOB
b7e630372629dc14b9d2c38b90ac6595 *VTS_02_2.VOB
ed39d54f852fbcabdac99878074cf78f *VTS_02_3.VOB
f74049993094fe1ee8e03128cafe374b *VTS_02_4.VOB

So somethings going bad, this is a new system how big a HD do you have?

Originally Posted by diggrd

They match till you get here

HD
0cc3e84d0c2de8977823c18e766b27b5 *VTS_02_1.VOB
b7e630372629dc14b9d2c38b90ac6595 *VTS_02_2.VOB
ed39d54f852fbcabdac99878074cf78f *VTS_02_3.VOB
f74049993094fe1ee8e03128cafe374b *VTS_02_4.VOB

Burned
3b743098a87d41db57e94cea227e32cd *VTS_02_1.VOB
b7e630372629dc14b9d2c38b90ac6595 *VTS_02_2.VOB
ed39d54f852fbcabdac99878074cf78f *VTS_02_3.VOB
f74049993094fe1ee8e03128cafe374b *VTS_02_4.VOB

So somethings going bad, this is a new system how big a HD do you have?

Indeed, I saw. That's actually where the real video kicks in, the other vob data before it is the menus and such.

[TheMamba]

Originally Posted by alchemy71085

Do you guys all have 9gb free just to burn a friggin DVD?

Yes.

I personally use 2 hard drives in my PC - 1 for system and programs, 1 for data (audio, video, etc.). The System drive has plenty of free space on it...so 9 GB is not hard to come by.