Burner & Media Compatibility

[jake224]

Hi I'am new to the board, but hope you can help.

Hey burners I made a fantastic video for the graduates and their families. Unfortunately it has turned into a bit of a financial nightmare. I bought a Lite-On 812S DVD burner and read reviews about compatible media and bought 100 RITEK DVD's @ 60 cents per. After burning a few I tested them and half of them skipped/paused on my clunky APEX standalone home DVD player but all off latter would play on any windows DVD-ROM just fine. I then read that I would have better luck with maxell brand DVD which cost 2-3 times as much. Sure enough nearly 90% of the maxells played fine on my APEX home DVD player and on 4 out of 6 other home standalone DVD players. Here is my question: Is it my burner? (Is Pioneer better DVD burner?) The media? Here are my findings after burning with my Lite-On 812s at both 2x and 4x speed with same results. All media was 4x speed and even tried 2x TDK media with the same results:

Windows equipped DVD-ROM: 100% Played puuurfectly
Standalone Home DVD Player: 60-70% better with maxell brand
VCR/DVD combo player: 30-40% Yuck
TV/DVD-built-in 30-40% Yuck

DVD+R Did not work on older players (1-2 or more years old) only on
very new players.

DVD-R Better and that is what I used for burning with results above.

Any experts with experience out there? Wed. these DVD's will be given to parents and I will have to tell them "GOOD LUCK" on your home DVD player and your better off playing these on your DVD-ROM on puter if you have it! Thank you for any help from the experts since I'm new to DVD burnin

This was posted on an other board, but is very similar to my experience.
I used memorex, and DVDShrink 3.17 with Liteon 811s.

 

[Duracell]

sorry for the late response;

i think a Pioneer would be a better partner for the Ritek G04 DVD-R;
however the playback result always depends on the standalone DVD players compatibility too; so you can't burn a perfect media which works with nearly all (older/cheap) standalone devices;


Greetings from
Duracell

 

[LTR12101B]

Updating to latest firmware sometimes helps with burn quality on some media, leading to better acceptance.

According to some, the Liteons are quite forgiving readers, so testing their own burns gives an over-optimistic result.

With +R media, it can help if you have bitsetting support (in original or hacked firmware) so that the resulting burn is marked as a DVD-ROM.... it can help some plyers that are too old to accept something identified as a DVD+R, but are actually capable of playing is as a DVD-ROM - my understanding is that bitsetting may help a "can't play", but won't change it if it plays badly.

If playback is a bit doubtful, then don't let the drive use 8x if it offers (the Liteon, I believe, does do some 4x media at 8x) - but use the 4x media at 4x

 

[jake224]

Thanks for the reply, it seems to be a speed issue. I went back to burning at 2.4, and all is OK.