Question by sirtag, Monday 13th of October 2008 04:55
As indicated, I recently purchased an MRX-530LE burner (external with a usb connection) and a spindle of Memorex+R (16X/4.7GB) discs to get started. Along with the drive I installed the Nero 7 software bundle that came with the burner. My machine is nothing fancy: Pentium R / 1.70GHz / 512MB RAM / 37GB HD (15GB free).
Now I realized I'd have successes and failures (and be making some coasters along the way) but I'm beginning to get frustrated with my lack of success and inability to figure this out myself.
Right off the bat I burned a full length movie without changing even a single setting (including burn speed). Since then I've quickly gone downhill. It seems that burning a clip or 2 works fine but anything beyond that fails. The strangest part is that I get confirmation messages at the end of the process indicating that the burn was successful. However, when I try to play it (on the computer or dvd player) it's as if the disc is blank. I've searched the forums and found helpful info but nothing that has fixed the situation. I even loaded everything on a second machine (Pentium R / 1.20 GHz / 0.99GB RAM / 28GB HD (20GB free) and I'm still having problems.
As lengthy as it is, I'm hoping someone can take a look at the log file and find something that I'm missing. . . . . ? Before I copy it in here, are there portions of the file that I can omit for the sake of space?
Many thanks in advance. . .
Answer by Kerry56, Monday 13th of October 2008 05:51
If you are converting avi, wmv and other types to dvd-video, ImgBurn won't do that. It is used to work with image files and burn to disk.
Depending on what all you are doing with these files, you will have to decide between two types of programs. Some allow editing, like Adobe Premiere Elements, or Corel Video Studio. Others will simply convert to dvd for you and let you play on stand alone players. There are even some good free ones in the latter category, like DVDFlick and FAVC.
Posting a Nero log file of one of your failed burns might help, yes, so if you have one go ahead and post it here.
Answer by Kerry56, Monday 13th of October 2008 07:05
Some contradictory stuff in here....[21:56:49] NeroVision Sense Key: 0x05 (KEY_ILLEGAL_REQUEST). Two key illegal request errors, but after the disc was "finalized successfully". And Nero says the burn process was successful at 8x. Those error messages usually mean an incompatibility between burner and disks by the way.
First I'd try slowing down the burn speed a little more. 6x if you have that option, or down to 4x even, though I don't normally advise that slow a speed on 16x media.
Next, I'd try having Nero output as dvd files instead of burning automatically. Then try ImgBurn at 6x or 8x with these Memorex disks. The forum guides I linked earlier show how to burn dvd-video using Imgburn.
If neither of those work....get some Verbatim disks.