Page 1 of My DVD player won`t play my home-made DVDs

Okay, Nobby, how do you make your DVDs? What equipment, software? What player are you using? Give us some information, we`re not psychic - well, except for the ogster ;)

J Mark Oates

Sorry to send out a blank message, its late, im tired and being a bit thick!!!

What i should have said is...........................

Hi all in DVD land

I wonder if anyone could help a DVD novice, I have put some of my home movies (nothing dodgy!!) onto writeable DVDs. However, when i try to play them on my player (Goodmans GDVD124) it acts like there is nothing in the tray!! >:(

I am using Nero software to write onto the discs, and am using DataWrite Yellow DVDs.

I have read somewhere that the colour of the underside of the disc affects DVD players, is this true?? (these discs are red). If this is true, is there any way of making the player read red discs?

I hope that makes sense to someone out there because i have lots of discs i cant play!

Thanks in advance for any help!!
8)

So many variables affect a player`s ability to playback recordable media.

The first point is when was your player made. As it`s a Goodmans, it`ll be a Far Eastern manufactured deck, probably with a first or second generation loader. Budget players from 1999-2001 are very iffy when it comes to recordable.

The other problems are :

brand of media
failing to finalise write once media before playing in a DVD player
software used to create disc
hardware used to create disc

The colour of the disc is irrelevant - it`s more to do with the pits created by your burner on your recorder/drive and the ability of the laser unit in your DVD player loader to read those pits correctly (they already cope with two different types of media : CDs and DVDs, chances are the iffy loaders used by the Far East will struggle with recordable too).

Which format are we talking about here : + or - ?
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huh, who`s taking my name in vain (not that i`m vain) :o :D >:( :o

cmon mark :D why am i psychic ? 8) :)

ps my friend has an old goodmans dvd player (forgot to check model sorry) and it played a disc recorded from my dmr-e30 no probs whith 4x yellow datawrite but wouldn`t play 4x orange top bulk-paq, so it looks like it may be the media.

This item was edited on Friday, 26th September 2003, 16:34

Thanks very much guys

Im off to play with different discs!!

Cheers!!!