Won't open or play on another computer

[Chuck Engels]

Are you using any kind of 'drag and drop' CD or DVD burning? Roxio has a product that will totally screw up CD and DVD burning (data files) on computers without the same function installed.
I can't remember what it is called right now, maybe someone else knows what I am talking about

[Peru]

Chuck-

There is DLA associated with Record Now, however I tried disabling and enabling it with no luck. I think there might be a program by ?Sony? called ?DVT It? that came with the computer which I may have opened by mistake at one time. I am not at the location of that computer now so I will check when I go home from work today.

Is Record Now a Roxio product?

[Chuck Engels]

RecordNow was a Sonic product, Roxio has purchased Sonic so now it would be a Roxio product.
I use RecordNow and have no problems with it but I have an older Sonic version.

[Andy_E]

... maybe someone else knows what I am talking about

Know exactly what you're talking about as it was on my new laptop. I got rid of it and can't remember what it's called either....

Personally I don't use any commercial software for burning. I use a freeware app called ImgBurn downloadable from here:

http://www.imgburn.com/

It's been excellent to-date.

[Peru]

Andy-

Thanks for the burner suggestion.
I downloaded ImageBurn, but it doesn't appear to have any drag and drop features, of which I have become accustomed.

I used DVD Info Pro on the computer that reads the discs, as you suggested, and it says that the discs are DVD-R. What else should I look for to see why they are not recognized by the other computers?

[Chuck Engels]

Drag and drop to burn a data disc to cd or dvd is BAAAAADDDDD!!!!!!!

[Peru]

Drag and drop to burn a data disc to cd or dvd is BAAAAADDDDD!!!!!!!

If it has a "verify" feature, why is it BAAAAADDDDD?

[Chuck Engels]

Like I have said previously, I used to have a Roxio program that would allow drag and drop in Windows Explorer to create data CDs and DVDs. The problem was that the computer that opened the files also needed to have the same software installed or it wouldn't work. The drag and drop is useless if everyone I give a data CD or DVD to also has to have this software, so I got RecordNow and use that to create my data DVDs and CDs and everything is fine It isn't drag and drop but I don't have any problems either.

[kodebuster]

With regard to Imgburn I checked out the website.

It seems to be geared towards image type files (.iso).

Anyone know if it will handle .vob file types, as this is what PE1 generates with a Burn to Folder...

Thanx...

[Bob]

Just a couple of comments.

With respect to Roxio, the packet writer that Roxio provides to support drag and drop to CD/DVD (it's called Drag to Disc, I believe) is known to interfere on some systems. I use Roxio but did not install the packet driver and have had no problems burning from Premiere Elements to DVD.

I haven't looked at imgburn, but ".iso" is a container object. It contains an image of a DVD. If you were to open it, you would see the VIDEO_TS etc. folders and the vobs and other files within that. Roxio's "Disc Copier" program, for example, can create an iso from a dvd or create a dvd from an iso. You don't have to create an iso, "Disc Copier" can also create a DVD directly from the folder generated by Burn to Folder. I don't know whether imgburn provides this capability.

[Chuck Engels]

Sounds like Peru is using the Drag to Disc functionality and the machines that have it installed can open the files while the machines that don't can't open the disc at all. That is exactly why I didn't install the drag to disc function. It sounds like this is an issue with data DVDs only, not burned video DVDs.

[Peru]

Chuck-

I first discovered the problem when I tried to play a video burned from PE3. I thought the video burned would be a DVD-video, but it is identified as a DVD-R.

Is a movie burned from PE3 a DVD-video or a DVD-R?

[Chuck Engels]

The type of disc would be DVD-R, that is a particular disc like -R, +R, -RW, and +RW.

On the disc should be a Video_TS folder that includes the video information that a DVD player reads.
You may want to update the DVD Burner firmware but I don't think that will resolve you problem, although it might.
This is one of those things that is hard to figure out without being there

[Peru]

Just to close the thread:

I discovered that the drives which would not read the discs were all older drives. I replaced one of the older drives with a newer one and it read all of the brands of discs- even the cheap ones! I guess I was looking at the wrong end of the problem.

Thanks for your efforts.

-Peru

[Chuck Engels]

Glad to hear that the problem is solved