Archiving on DVD

If I ever make a movie involving a 747 taking off I have no need of sound effects I'll just record the Microsoft XP resource kit CD playing in the DVD ROM drive of my old Dell Optiplex.

And yet if I archive a bunch of photos to DVD, then check them on my LG or Panasonic DVD, store them a few months this old DVD ROM reads them fairly readily and quietly, but the drive that wrote them can take an age to read them again. I don't get this problem with CDs - but a with lot of folders and files on DVD well.

Has anybody else seen this problem or even better seen the answer?



Studio T

 

I can't answer directly, on this Studiot, except to say that I have found some newer writers , can have a job reading their own burns, after using in an older drive, and sometimes Windows will freeze on them. As the noise is not there after a period of storage, on the old drive, it makes me wonder if codecs are a contributionary cause.
Different writing programs seem to give so many anomolies when reading, and writing - freezes - unreadable, no disk in drive - I have noticed this on many occasions when trying to load stuff onto an older computer, then again on the computer it was burned on, and it has often become corrupted- without writing to it, just reading by the older computer. Codecs?
I will be interested in any findings on your problem.