DVD not recognized by DVD drive

mapleleafs · **Posted:** Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:43 pm

I want to burn a DVD, but when I put it in my DVD-RW drive, it says the disk is blank. However, the disk plays properly when I put it in a standard DVD player. Also, the DVD drive plays other DVD's without a problem. I'm wondering, what could be causing my drive to not recognize the disk?

Andy · **Posted:** Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:49 pm

one problem could be that the disk was burned at a faster rate than ur player could read... im not sure if this affects dvds, but back in the days of cd writers, if you burn a cd at 40x, then chances are, it wont be read with a 32x reader

chrispminis · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:09 am

I don't think it was burned previously Andy. I might be wrong. Um. Otherwise I have no ideas. Clean it?

codemage · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:11 am

I've encountered a few formats that will play in a standard player, but not as well (or at all) on a computer drive. Your standalone might also be able to skip over errors better than the PC equivalent.

If you'll be doing similar burns, you might want to get your burning soft to verify the write.

mapleleafs · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:28 pm

Hmm well the thing is, I'm not the one who burnt this DVD originally. I received it from a professional videographer (who filmed my sister's wedding). In all likelyhood, you are probably correct about the DVD being incompatible with my drive. But I was thinking, is it possible that the videographer put some sort of copy protection on the disk (so that my computer can't even detect it)?

MysticVegeta · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:43 pm

Well the computer MUST detect somthing even if its licence protected. Do other DVD's work properly, might be a prob. with the drive.

mapleleafs · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:55 pm

Yes, other DVD's work fine

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