Questions about DVD R playback?
Question by Kristin D: Questions about DVD R playback?
This will be two questions in one.
A.) I finally figured out how to make a DVD R on my one DVD player and thus have officially ended the VHS tape phase of my life. I own a Toshiba DVD Video Recorder/ Video Cassette Recorder. (D-VR600) I just put in a blank disc and press record on XP mode (SLP gave me a grainy picture). The problem is, when you put the disc in another player, the player will simply say READING for about 3 minutes and then it will say INCORRECT DISC, but they do play in the machine I recorded them on , my friend said you have to “Finish” the recording somehow by doing something with the remote but I don’t know what it is and the manual is useless, I can’t even figure out how to do timer recordings on it, I have to be there to press the button when my show comes on, any help in the playback dilemma would be greatly appreciated.
B.) Whenever I try to burn one of my video projects from my computer to DVD R they will playback okay at first, then they begin to freeze up and skip, ruining the video to the point where it freezes permanently, I was wondering if this is something i’m doing wrong in recording them and what I can do to stop it from happening. (I make my DVDs with windows movie maker)
Best answer:
Answer by It’s That Guy
Stand-alone DVD recorders allow you to put several programs on one DVD. Depending on the mode you have 2 or 4 or 6 hours of record time, so if you could put up with the grainy pictures you could record half an hour now, an hour tomorrow, etc., until the disk was full. But to do this, the recorder has to record in a different format from how a DVD player plays.
So there is a command somewhere to -finalize- a disk. After you finalize it, you can’t record any more to it, but it will play on a standard DVD player. Look in your manual, and if you don’t have one, look on Toshiba’s website and I bet you can download it there.
The same thing could be happening with the DVRs you burn on your computer. I don’t know. There’s obviously some problem, either a compatibility problem or a ‘feature’ deliberately built into Windows Movie Maker.
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