DVD burning help

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:52 pm

Hello techie people.

I am trying to burn some video files to DVD.

The files come to more than the size of a regular 4.whateverGB DVD-R.

So I bought some Verbatim DL 8.5GB DVD-Rs.

Now Nero is going through the whole burn process, then saying it failed.

The error log says:

[20:34:09] NeroVision 20:34:04 #17 Text 0 File DVDPlusDualLayer.cpp, Line 481
[20:34:09] NeroVision L0 Data Zone Capacity set to 1249360 (131050h, 2440MB) -> ERROR, capacity different:
[20:34:09] NeroVision L0 Data Zone Capacity on disc: 2086912 (1FD800h, 4076MB)
[20:34:09] NeroVision L0 Data Zone Capacity requested to be set: 1249360 (131050h, 2440MB)
[20:34:09] NeroVision
[20:34:09] NeroVision 20:34:04 #18 CDR -1106 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1614
[20:34:09] NeroVision Power calibration error
[20:34:09] NeroVision
[20:34:09] NeroVision 20:34:04 #19 TRANSFER -27 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1614
[20:34:09] NeroVision Could not perform start of Disc-at-once
[20:34:09] NeroVision
[20:34:09] NeroVision 20:34:04 #20 Phase 38 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 273
[20:34:09] NeroVision Burn process failed at 8x (11,080 KB/s)

I have tried it a couple of times and it does the same thing, with different discs.

Now, that's techie gibberish to me. I understand the words and everything, but seriously I have a headache already before I try making sense of it.

I can see that there's a capacity difference there, but quite what it's saying is beyond me. Is it throwing a wobbly because it's a dual layer disc and my writer can't write to the second layer? Is that likely to be an issue? I don't know enough about this to know if I need a different drive to be able to do that or not. Nero recognises the blank media as DL, but seriously this is all beyond me. I want to just stick in a blank VHS, hook up the RF leads and press record. Boo.

Thanks people. You rock.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:03 pm

Aha... DVD Flick has an option where I can tell it the size of the target disc. Interesting.

Post by **Kaylee** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:34 pm

See if there is an option to not burn the whole disk at once and disable it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:52 pm

This might sound like a stupid question, but can your burner actually burn to a DVD-R DL disk? As in, amongst all the stickers you get stuck on the front of the drive, is there one that specifically states "DVD-R DL" or "DVD+/-R DL" or "DVD-RW DL" or "DVD+/-RW DL" ?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:58 am

Rebis wrote:This might sound like a stupid question, but can your burner actually burn to a DVD-R DL disk?

Not that much of a stupid question. I don't know. I'm so inept at this side of things that I wasn't even sure if it's a feature that some can't do... hence the original question, really.

As in, amongst all the stickers you get stuck on the front of the drive, is there one that specifically states "DVD-R DL" or "DVD+/-R DL" or "DVD-RW DL" or "DVD+/-RW DL" ?

There are no stickers. It was a custom build for me about 7 years ago by somebody who's since gone out of business. I never asked the question at the time because, well because it wasn't really relevant back then.

Left DVD Flick burning overnight, got up this morning to find it prompting me to set the layer transition point. Which I've done, clicked continue and gone to work. Will have to see what it's done when I get home.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:33 am

Did it work?

7 years ago makes me think it's unlikely that it'd be able to burn DL, as I think the tech had only recently been made available (and therefore expensive) to home consumers back then, but not impossible.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:42 am

Rebis wrote:Did it work?

7 years ago makes me think it's unlikely that it'd be able to burn DL, as I think the tech had only recently been made available (and therefore expensive) to home consumers back then, but not impossible.

Agreed - the log you provided looks like it had trouble reading it as a DL disc ( Capacity on disc: 2086912 (1FD800h, 4076MB)), which suggests the writer can't handle DL discs.
I've never actually tried writing a single layer image onto a dual-layer disc, so i don't know whether you can do that or not, i'd err on the side of 'no' though.
Interested to find out what your results where.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:14 am

It did indeed Not Work. So yeah, that does appear to be the problem. Thanks boys.

Now need a way to shrink down the vid files I've got. Probably have to convert them to DivX or something like that. Oh, fun fun. Pissing me off, it really is. All I want is my recons burned to DVD. Bloody 60s Who and their six+ part stories.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:26 pm

Legion wrote:I've never actually tried writing a single layer image onto a dual-layer disc, so i don't know whether you can do that or not, i'd err on the side of 'no' though.

If the image is greater than a single layer capacity, then it's not a single layer image. The image would have some breakpoint in it to show where the change between layers occurs. Or, as appears to be with Brend's software, the user can set the breakpoint himself.

If the image is less than a single layer capacity, it'll still burn to a dual layer disc, it just doesn't burn onto the second layer. Unless, for some reason a breakpoint is set. Not that there would appear to be any advantage to burning an image onto a dual layer disc if it'd fit on a single layer disc, mind you.

And, yes, I looked up DVDs on Wikipedia when Brend posted this topic on monday.

Interestingly, I found, was that a DL disc has slightly less capacity than 2 SL discs.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:01 pm

Brendocon wrote:It did indeed Not Work. So yeah, that does appear to be the problem. Thanks boys.

Now need a way to shrink down the vid files I've got. Probably have to convert them to DivX or something like that. Oh, fun fun. Pissing me off, it really is. All I want is my recons burned to DVD. Bloody 60s Who and their six+ part stories.

You could use Nero or ConvertToDVD to re-compress them so it fits.
Or use two discs, three episodes per disc. That's what I did. ;-)

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:07 pm

I've not found the compression bit in Nero. Hrmm.

ConvertToDVD? Will look that up later.

Yeah, I would just go and stick them across multiple discs, but the box of 100 amaray cases I bought is all single disc. I'm committed now! I've got 1 double-case, and that's reserved for The Daleks' Masterplan.

This would be so much simpler if somebody in a position of responsibility at the BBC had just said "Y'know what, we may want to show some of this again one day. We'll just buy some more shelves."