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| Thread ID: 146679 | 2018-10-22 20:23:00 | Burning new DVDs from Pinnacle fails at 30% | PeterE (6851) | Press F1 |
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| 1454729 | 2018-10-23 03:04:00 | I used to burn a lot of disks and had similar problems to Paul, but not with all of them. Back in the day after many dead disks and much research I settled on Verbatim as the best commonly available disk and stopped buying anything else and those have lasted much better. The ones I still have read fine and are 10+ years old in some cases. I'm well out of date but my top few choices when I still bought disks were: Taiyo Yuden (hard to find but very good) TDK - but only the ones that were rebranded from Taiyo Yuden :) Verbatim Mitsubishi (same as Verbatim) Pretty much everything else I tried was junk and became un readable after a few years, even some expensive name brands. Weirdly the RW disks have lasted better. Now I don't use anything but hard drives for storage, and keep 2 copies at least of anything important. I burn the occasional disk to install an OS or somehting when I encounter issues booting from a flash drive but generally don't keep those disks. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1454730 | 2018-10-23 03:34:00 | Thank you all for your comments. I have digitised eight (8) VHS tapes for a friend who wishes to send disk copies overseas. And the need for chapters in a long clip is an advantage with DVDs. |
PeterE (6851) | ||
| 1454731 | 2018-10-23 06:19:00 | It's not DVD itself that is doing the chapters, but the software that adds the menu, index, etc to it. You can accomplish this with most video formats these days and store that to USB, however to make it more compatible you would use MPEG4. I'm not familiar with Pinnacle, but it must produce a log of the error if it doesnt complete or at least an error message to say what failed. I could probably suggest 100 things that could be the problem but I'd like to hopefully narrow it down to at least 3 things. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1454732 | 2018-10-23 07:28:00 | If its a DVD being created then suggest you make it in a std DVD format, With .vob files, not all players will work with newer formats-- There's plenty of programs about that can do that along with chapters. An old but goody is DVD Flick. www.dvdflick.net Used it myself plenty of times. :) Making a DVD like you are, that will take a lot of Grunt, fast burning or not enough power will almost guarantee a failure. AND Never use RW's they are crap, and some dvd players wont work with them. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1454733 | 2018-10-23 08:12:00 | I have used burnaware free for years, still have it installed but can't remember the last time I used it. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1454734 | 2018-10-24 23:05:00 | I didn't know a menu and chapters could be created and used on a USB drive but I do use the MPEG4 format on these drives. How can I go about this? Also I have downloaded dvdflick so will give that a try. My PC: Intel core i7-7700 cpu, @ 3.6GHz, 16Gb RAM so there should be enough grunt? Peter. |
PeterE (6851) | ||
| 1454735 | 2018-10-24 23:18:00 | I didn't know a menu and chapters could be created and used on a USB drive but I do use the MPEG4 format on these drives. How can I go about this? Also I have downloaded dvdflick so will give that a try. My PC: Intel core i7-7700 cpu, @ 3.6GHz, 16Gb RAM so there should be enough grunt? Peter. Enough Grunt -- The main reasons for failures: 1. Burning to fast 2. Bad media (RW's aren't the best) 3. Hardware related problems with Optical Drive 4. Software related problems. 1st is easy to test, 2nd means changing to a different Media 3& 4 bit more time consuming and investigation required (logs etc) What you have to also look at is the output format, if it is for your own equipment you know what will and wont work, but if its for someone else, if they for example don't have a device that will play MPEG4 then its a waste of time. Actual DVD's you buy in the shop don't (AFAIK) ever come in MPEG4, its all .VOB etc- standard DVD format. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1454736 | 2018-10-25 00:22:00 | It's been too long but I recall DivX fully supporting chapters (uses MPEG4 part 2) and was quite compatible for most DVD players as well. I think this was the method I used at the time. VOB was just an extended format of MPEG for standard dvd book but yea there's plenty of other containers, but finding ones to work on a dvd player is the issue. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1454737 | 2018-10-25 04:18:00 | I was thinking of the possibility of MPEG4 with menu and chapters on a USB stick (or DVD). Can that be done? | PeterE (6851) | ||
| 1454738 | 2018-10-25 04:29:00 | I was thinking of the possibility of MPEG4 with menu and chapters on a USB stick (or DVD). Can that be done? Yes you can do it, BUT not all media players ( or DVD Players) will support/work/read chapters correctly. | wainuitech (129) | ||
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