by tig2002 on Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:01 am
I found really cheap media at CompUSA - $9.99 for 10 DVD-R 1x disks and decided to try to burn on my OptoRite drive. I was surprised when the OptoRite burned couple of these disks with no problems or errors at 2x speed. However, the burned disks were not recognizable by WinDVD 4 using the same OptoRite drive, or DVD-ROM drives on my two other computers, but were recognized by xBox and my Samsung 5-disk DVD changer. The movies that I burned on these disks played well on Samsung and xBox. There is a pack of two for $1.99 of the same disks at CompUSA. I also tried CompUSA 2.4x DVD+RW disks on OptoRite (pack of 5 for $11.99) and burned them with no problem as well. The DVD+RW movie played on xBox, Samsung recognized it, but played with a lot of mosaic garbage, and WinDVD 4 did not recognize the movie at all.
So far I haven't tried any decent brand expensive media with my new OptoRite drive, but am impressed with the ability of the drive to burn cheap media. I am concerned about the fact that the burned movie disks could not be played by either OptoRite drive or WinDVD 4 software, although I was able to see the contents of the disks in Windows Explorer using OptoRite, which gives me an idea that the problem is WinDVD 4, and not OptoRite, and, again, I was able to play the movies on xBox and Samsung DVD player, but not on DVD-ROM drives of other computers (also using WinDVD).
What is the best format (DVD-R or DVD+R) for using on other computers with regular DVD-ROM drive? And, in my case, what is the problem: media type (DVD-R), brand (CompUSA) or WinDVD?
Also I would like to ask if anybody knows if it is possible to convert an internal IDE DVD burner (OptoRite in my case) to external USB-2 or Firewire (preferred) drive. Are there any enclosure boxes on the market that would convert internal IDE burner to external USB-2 or Firewire, and what is the best place to buy them?
Thanks
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tig2002 on Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:42 am, edited 1 time in total.