Have a Sony DVD dual layer Burner but it is not

[Pippinlady]

recognising Sony DVD_R discs. will only 'see' DVD-RW discs[Panasonic]

Also when hubby is burning a home made video which he edited through the Pinnacle studio 7 software. onto a DVD-r or -RW they are not viewable on our DVD player.
Sorry if I have not given enough info as I feel very awkward setting the problem down 2nd hand as I don't know all the steps he took. and he can't remember either. We have several DVD-R coasters where the software burnt a scrap of film then stopped, making the DVD useless.

He has tried using Microsoft XP to burn the DVD too but no success. Though a few weeks ago he did manage to burn one DVD that we can view on our player.. Through the NERO 6 software that came with the Sony FX? 720 UL burner.
It burns using Nero Express3

I expect you will come back with lots more questions as I am not so familiar with XP now as I have been using an Apple iMac for 3+ years I am out of practice with Windows.

Thanks to anyone who can help.



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[rvnguy]

Dual layer burners need dual layer aware software to get desired results.

Sounds as though Nero packaged with drive works??

Have never used XP as a burning app, might or might not be up to speed for dual layer.

rvnguy
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[Pippinlady]

Great! hubby managed to burn a DVD last night but only onto the Panasonic DVD-RW disc, we were able to play it back on our Pioneer DVD player. But not our ALBA DVD player.[this is multi region, not sure that is the cause.]

I am not sure it is the XP or the Nero software that is not recognising DVD-R dics.

Can anyone think of a reason for this?

DVD-R's being cheaper we wold prefer to use those.
thanks again


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[cdogg]

RW (Rewritable) discs are much less compatible in set-top DVD players that +/- R (Write Once) media is.

First and foremost, make sure your DVD-RW drive on the PC is set for the appropriate region. Use the Nero software that came with the drive to see if it can read a Sony DVD-R disc. The "Disc Information" option should show you a blank DVD with 4,483MB of available capacity.

It doesn't make sense that a Sony drive can't read Sony DVD-R media, but I guess it's possible. You say you "have several DVD-R coasters", so does that mean that the burn process was successfully started using the Sony DVD-R discs, just it did not complete?

The hardware configuration of a drive can make all the difference in the world. If this is a drive you added to the PC, try placing it on the "secondary" IDE channel set as "master". For testing purposes, disconnect any other device on that channel be sure to attach this one to the "end" connector (not the middle which only be used by a slave device). Before shutting down the PC to do that, remove the drive from Device Manager in Windows.

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