Help - CD Burning gone bad!

Factual Questions
1

I have burnt so many coasters - please help!

I tried burning an .avi file to CD with Nero and all went well - Nero said the burn was successful. When I tried playing it, however, WMP came up with an “unknown error”. Oh well.

So I burnt it again. Same error.

The (hard disc) version plays fine.

I have burnt .avi’s before without problem.

I tried a different .avi file. Same error.

I burnt at a slow speed. Same error.

I tried an mp3 file. No problem. It plays fine.

I downloaded the latest version of Nero. Same error.

What now? Any ideas as to what I should try to identify the problem? Thanks.

2

What happens if you copy the files from the CD to a directory on your hard disk and attempt to play them?

3

I tried this! It copies fine, right till the end, and then the CD starts whirring and it came up with some sort of error message.

4

How large was the AVI file? It is possible that eventhough NERO was saying all was fine, that it just barely couldn’t fit on a CD-R.

I would try converting the file to another format using tmpgenc or a similar type of program and then try burning to CD-R again.

5

Uh OK. It was large ~ 700MB. That has not been a problem before, I don’t think. I will try again with a file of half that size and see if I end up with another coaster!

6

Well goddamn Dragwyr, the smaller sized avi worked just fine! I am amazed because I thought I had burnt 700 MB files fine in the past. Perhaps I am confused! Anyway, now I know the problem, so thank you very much!

7

No problem. Happy burning! :slight_smile: