Members, I ask for the guidence of your wisdom, or maybe brush a cobweb off or two.

I have been trying to make DVD's for the past 3 weeks and have yet to make even ONE sucessfully. Here are the stats:

Case: Antec 1040B
Cpu: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 333mhz
Mem: Corsair 512 DDR XMS
CDRW: Asus 5224A, 52x24x52
DVDRW: LiteOn 411s
Sound: Audigy Platinum
Media: TDK DVD-R (bout 10 coasters so far)
Every burn states burn process failed or this fun error: 2:52:16 PM #649 CDR -1046 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1620
Illegal disc

2:52:16 PM #650 TRANSFER -24 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1620
Could not perform end of Disc-at-once

2:52:16 PM #651 Phase 38 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 235
Burn process failed at 2x (2,760 KB/s)

I have used TMPGEnc, Nero 6 Ultra, Nero Vision, line by line with the manuals on how to burn DVD's, from files downloaded, such as .avi's or .mpeg's. I don't understand how difficult it can be? Am I just really overlooking something sooo simple or can the LiteOn 411s do EVERYTHING besides burn a DVD?

Can you only make backups and not to utilize the DVD-RW to make DVD's from your system?

I know that the wisdom of the group combined will be able to figure this one out. I am a tech and my roomate is a software engineer....we can't, of course, we have never tried to burn DVD's prior to my getting this either. VCD's are easy, DVD's....no clue.

For those of you who are burning DVD's would respond, I would REALLY be grateful!

Gem

Trying to get there, but seems to be no shortcut!

Does the Lite On 411S have buffer underun protection?

You have plenty of onboard RAM, have you maxed out the amount of shared RAM the burn process can use?

I'm also using Nero 6 Ultra, and Nero Vision, with no burning problems at all, its definitely not the burning software. Have you considered the possibility of having a lemon DVDRW, I'm running an Iomega Super DVD burner, I think I've had 1 coaster in all my burns, but that was my fault not the burners, you really shouldn't be having all these failed burns.

Just out of curiosity have you run Memtest86 to see if you're getting any RAM errors at all, all these burning programs use some system memory, and if theres nothing wrong with the burner, the problem is elsewhere, but I'd run Memtest86 to rule out RAM errors, and if the RAM tests error free, I'd consider seriously looking at the possibility of a bad burner.

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4Ryan6,

I have 128mb allocated to just the burning process, no issues there. I tried Alcohol 120 and it works great for burning files already ripped though.
Are you using Nero Vision to enode it then Nero 6 Ultra to burn it? The instructions with Nero Vision are not specific at all, so I am still winging it, unfortunately, it doesn't state which mode to use, nor any of the other settings. I enjoy working with the interactive menu's though....now if I could just burn them, I would be a happy camper. I tried once more and same failure issue, I am burning directly with Nero Vision, is that wrong?
I would really appreciate it if you could give further details on how you are burning them. I have burned about 12 cd's/VCD's since I posted this without a problem and it reads any cd/dvd you put in the drive. I have updated all the firmware and drivers, no issues. I tested the memory like you asked, I used to ask customers to do that all the time, it's valid with no problems.
The part I am getting really confused on is which mode in Vision do you use and in Nero 6 and which one do you use to burn it with? I have been burning directly (trying) with Vision. I thought this was going to be easy, like I stated earlier, I have made too many VCD's to count, this should be a piece o' cake.....can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks all...

Gem

Trying to get there, but seems to be no shortcut!

I use quite a few programs actually, Nerovision will encode and burn to disk for you, it appears you're only having problems with AVI and MPEG, then I assume you've actually been able to copy a DVD itself, right or wrong?

Even though it shouldn't have a problem, Nerovision works best when you do your encoding with all AVI files or all MPEG files, it doesn't like it when you mix AVI and MPEG together in a combined encode, the key is to end up with basically a perfect encode, if there is any errors in the completed encode, you'll end up with a coaster every time, I learned that the hard way until I created a folder to keep my completed encodes in, then once they were encoded, it didn't matter if they started as AVI or MPEG, I used Nerovision again, selected the clips I wanted to burn to DVD, and let Nerovision run them through again, which is like second pass encoding, like you did with some of the DivX VCD creating, and then let Nerovision continue on and burn to disk. That worked for me and should work for you, now you may end up with some files Nerovision can't deal with, and you'll either have to repair them if possible, or try another conversion program.

I also use;
Ulead DVD Movie Factory 1 & 2
My DVD
Smartburn Pro
Intervideo DVD Copy
Smartripper
DVD Decrypter

All of these programs have their plus's and minus's and take some experimenting and testing on your part to find out what works and what doesn't, some of the programs I ran through DVD Movie Factory and cleaned them up first, and some I had to ditch or just leave as AVI and MPEG, because they were corrupted and I didn't want to spend the time to repair them, however any file with sentimental value would be worth the time and trouble to repair.

By the way, what OP/SYS are you running, that could be a determining factor, if you're running any of the Win9X, in completing a burn.




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In nerovision you select Make DVD, then DVD-Video, and go from there, you don't use Nero Burning Rom itself to burn DVD, you use Nero Vision Express period for the DVD burning.






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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by 4ryan6 on 03/10/04 09:56 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Things that could cause a failed burn;
Anti-Virus Auto-Protect running.
Spyware on your machine.
Too many active programs running.
Instant Messaging Active.
Corrupted files you are trying to burn.

Just to name a few!





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Are you using an nForce2 motherboard? If so, try using the In-the-box IDE drivers instead of the SW IDE drivers.

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Mark,

I have the Asus A7N8X-X series, which does have Nforce2 on it. I used the driver set that came with the mobo, Nforce2, should I reinstall them from there again or did I download something else that would have caused that to change?
As far as the IDE drivers, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and have done the Windows updates that have changed the driver on the IDE channels to the latest Windows drivers, which are dated 06-19-2003. Could this be posing a problem? Should I reinstall the original drivers from the NForce2 mobo cd?
Looking forward to hearing back on this subject, I appreciate your understanding on this.

Gem

Getting a file is one thing, making it work is another.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by geminiguy on 03/11/04 12:12 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Ryan,

Thanks for all the information, which conflicts with what I was told by others, but I take your advice on it. I was told to re-encode the files with Vision then burn them with Nero somehow. I have been told not to chose the DVD-Video option, insted to choose the DVD-UDF/ISO, that would explain alot! I never thought to re-encode the file twice, I'll have to try that also.
As far as programs running while encoding or burning, the only one I have running at the time is AVG 7.0 Pro, would that cause it to not encode it properly?

I am also looking at the posiblity of an IDE driver issue, posted by Mark.

Thanks all,

I am checking into all possible solutions to this issue and will get back to you asap.

Thanks again,

Gem

Trying to get there, but seems to be no shortcut!

Okay. I would download the <A HREF="http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_3.13" target="_new">latest</A> nForce2 drivers, then uninstall your current set. Upon reinstalling the new set, a screen will eventually come up regarding the SW IDE driver installation. Press Next. Then a dialog box will appear asking whether or not to install the SW IDE driver - and simply say no. When selecting no for installing the SW IDE driver, it automatically installs the In-the-box IDE driver (version 3.58).


There are tons of people on the nForcersHQ forum who have had problems with the SW IDE driver and their burners. It might not be the solution to your problem, but I think it's worth a try.

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If you have the auto protect feature of any virus program running, it could cause a failed burn.
Active spyware will do the same thing, is your machine clean of spyware, if not check out my post in the other section.
And what Operating System are you running???

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Mark,

I appreciate the link to the proper driver for the Nvidia2 mobo IDE drivers. I will install them and hopefully that will correct this very mind numbing issue.
Thank you for giving me the responses and hopefully will if I still have an issue.

Thanks again,

Gem

Trying to get there, but seems to be no shortcut!

Ryan,

I am running Windows 2000 Pro, I have my AVG 7.0 Pro disabled during burning and am using Adaware 6.0 Pro for spy removal. I haven't shut down AVG though, I didn't even think of that.
My other question, I noticed that Vision doesn't make a back up of a DVD to multiple DVD's or compress the files to one DVD, is there one? I have yet to find one that works properly.
I am going to be changing the IDE drivers to find out if this does in fact put my DVD-\+ rw in use insted of a paperweight...after trying to find a program that will actually put the files on more than one DVD-R.
If you have any other ideas, please let me know..I just went through about 4 programs and none of them provided a good burn after the shrink..UGH!! I am giving up on this soon and just going to throw it away.

Thanks,

Gem

Trying to get there, but seems to be no shortcut!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by geminiguy on 03/11/04 09:35 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

<A HREF="http://broadbandnuts.com/drtweak/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=5" target="_new"> Read this spyware article, Ad Aware is not sufficient by itself, to totally remove the spyware, at least make sure your machine is spyware free before you give up.</A>






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