A little help with DVD burning?

Hello I'm new to burning DVDs and right now I hate it! Out of a pack of 50 DVDs i have 4 working full movies to show for it, and 1 disc to a miniseries I was copying for my cousin. Here's some information that I have I'm using WinXP Office, Nero7 Essentials, the drive is a Sony DRU-830A and the disks I use are TDK (I know they're cheap but it's what I could afford at the time.) The last 3 disks I've done have said burn successful and only one of them worked. I have the log files if you want them. Any help on this would be very appreciated. Thank you so much.

 

I'd be glad to help, but I'll need some more info. What exactly are you trying to burn? Do you have movies you want to watch on a home DVD player? Are you trying to convert media files into DVD's? More details please I use Nero too, and it works perfectly as long as you don't expect too much from it... but it can be confusing, no doubt about that...

 

I want them to play on a home DVD player, I had to convert them to VOBs so they'd work on ours. The movie right now is The Shining by Stephen King. It's 3 discs long so I have to use 3 discs and every time I try to burn it I put it in the DVD player and even in the computer it's choppy and with the last disk the audio gets off track with the video every time I've tried. I do nothing else while burning and the files I have are just fine. I only have four disks left most of the 50 was costers it's driving me mad!

 

Now I can't really endorse piracy so I'm assuming you own the movie in question and you're making archival backups for personal use. I'm also assuming that the source files are in AVI format. What are you using to convert from AVI to DVD? Have you played the source files before converting to check the quality? If the original rip was done poorly, there isn't much you can do to repair a low quality rip...