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Thread ID: 110296	2010-06-11 01:23:00	Change DVD 'Book"?	SurferJoe46 (51)	Press F1

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1108990	2010-06-11 01:23:00	I was all good and going on, burning DVDs all the time and a friend gave me a whole 250 stack of new Memorex DVD-Rs to play with . For a while everything went OK, then the wheels fell off . The DVD birner reports that the 'book is set at -R' . I am making lots of fruit-tree bird chasers now - commonly called 'coasters' or 'mini frisbees' . So - OK, I said and got a 50-count of DVD+Rs and tried it again . The new DVDs are burning at -R even though the DVD blanks are now +Rs . I get the DVD all burned and it starts in odd places and repeats and jumps all over the place yet as it was doing when I tried the DVD-Rs before . Is there any way to reset the 'DVD book" to +R again? All I'm parroting here is the pop-up cards that are doing the burning and what they say - as I have little idea what the 'book' has to do with all this - but I'll send you some free bird-chasers if you can use them . Think my burner's zorched? :dogeye: Oh - and this has NOTHING to do with Google Chromium - yet!	SurferJoe46 (51)
1108991	2010-06-11 01:39:00	What burning software are you using and what are you trying to burn?	Sweep (90)
1108992	2010-06-11 01:54:00	What burning software are you using and what are you trying to burn? I use DVD Shrink and I have a few others, but DVD Shrink always worked so I haven't tried any of the others yet. Should I? I have over 40 archived commercial DVDs in a hdd file and they always worked before - but not now. Would making an .iso of the hard drive files work? I don't believe I asked that - I've never had this problem until recently and when I burned those DVD-Rs - but some of them worked just fine. Maybe I should try NERO? Or .ISO Burner?	SurferJoe46 (51)
1108993	2010-06-11 02:13:00	You can change the book thing (redbook)? in Nero (in the main program). The option in Nero, makes it more compatible with standalone DVD's (so whatever will play). But its so bloated now, I wouldnt bother installing it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1108994	2010-06-11 02:28:00	You can change the book thing (redbook)? in Nero (in the main program) . The option in Nero, makes it more compatible with standalone DVD's (so whatever will play) . But its so bloated now, I wouldnt bother installing it Well - that was good - thanks! It worked - well NOT doing the 'Redbook' thing - but I used NERO and it just - worked! It even let's me play the -R DVDs in all my non-computer DVD players! Whoopee! What - was - I - thinking - of! Must be time for a pill again .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1108995	2010-06-11 02:35:00	Maybe firmware to reset ? - but I would check reviews online for your burner's model/manufacturer in firmware would help. I recently burned data on DVD - RW (imation) with no issues but use ISO format in Image Burn.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1108996	2010-06-11 06:51:00	Maybe firmware to reset ? - but I would check reviews online for your burner's model/manufacturer in firmware would help . I recently burned data on DVD - RW (imation) with no issues but use ISO format in Image Burn . Yeah - I thought it wouldn't matter -R or +R . Now I can see it was OE - Operator Error . I wuz usin' the wrong software . Would an . ISO be able to run like a DVD on a player?	SurferJoe46 (51)
1108997	2010-06-12 02:43:00	I thought when you burnt an ISO to disc it became a DVD (mpeg2)	Roger Hunt (13648)
1108998	2010-06-12 02:57:00	If you mean a standalone DVD player (for an ISO), then no, it wont know what an ISO is. So, wont play it. The only thing an ISO would probably boot from would be a VM program (like Virtual PC or something), if its an ISO of an operating system. And no if you burn an ISO it wont become a DVD, or an Mpeg file. If there's no video files in it. If you use Nero or a program (and you've added files to something), then burn it, then it'll convert the files you've added to DVD format. So, a standalone DVD can play it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
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