Sh0rtD0gg said:
They are Ritek G04's from Mertiline.com, I checked with dvdinfopro
Little expensive to be chancing on whether you will get a good batch or not???
Well the thing is my dont burn the Princos correctly either, only my friends does, I can take a princo disc burn same exact thing as him on my computer, and mine will fail and his will work everytime. I just dont understand whats wrong with what Im doing.
After your rip a disc, can your ISO be the file thats corupted, or can it only be the disc after you burned it that is corupted??? Im wondering If my ISO is corupted before I burn, or its just my disc burning procedure??
I once had a version of DVD Decryptor (a couple of versions ago) that did make the ISO image worse than the DVD disk it was ripped from !!! I couldn't work out why I started to get corrupt disks. The problem seems to have arisen from slightly non standard/badly authored dvd's in the first place which when ISO'ed in DVD Decryptor and burned using Nero seemed to create an even worse playing disk ....It is better now with Decryptor and nero updates .....However what I do now , only if I suspect the ISO or validity of the VIDEO_TS files , is I run the files through DVD Shrink or even DVD Remake which checks the validity of the DVD authoring (bad/missing links). DVD shrink will complain straight away while analysing the disk if the structure is bad. I will then use DVD Remake to fix the faults and reburn.
So what I suggest you do if you think the ISO is at fault is just extract it (eg .use WinISO) , check VIDEO_TS folder files as suggested above. Then burn as 'DVD-video files' in Nero.
After the 'bad' experience of decryptor ISO's I have preferred to do most burns as DVD-video files in Nero. Perhaps someone could say whether burning an ISO is still better or different to burning the VIDEO_TS folder via Nero 'DVD-Video' ?? Incidently, Nero does do a check on the files in the VIDEO_TS folder if burning as 'DVD Video' as opposed to burning an ISO image. But I think it is rather limited as to just making sure certain files are present.
I have had many many problems with Princo disks and absolutely none with Riteks. (A bad ISO will be bad on any media !!!) My Princo's that used to be OK, are now begining to degrade !!!! and be unreadable !!! any one else noticed it ?
Make sure your burner's firmware is up-to date or at least sutable for the media you are using. Compare your firmware with your friends burner. Swap your burners between systems .... if still no good then reckon ya burners ****ed !
AND ......use re-writeables till you get it fixed. !!!! no need to keep wasting DVD-R's no matter how cheap they may be now .
