# Why can't my DVD burner finalize disks?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 10, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-my-dvd-burner-finalize-disks/492622 "2009-04-10T08:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-my-dvd-burner-finalize-disks/492622/1 "2009-04-10T08:32:34Z")
I have a Lite On SOHW 1693S and it works perfectly fine with everything until it comes to the end of a burn. When it is finalizing, it gives me an error message saying it couldn’t finish. I have used both Nero and Express Burn both with the same results(sorry I can’t get the exact error message, I would have to create 2 more coasters to get them). I am just saving some mpeg files, nothing complicated. I would hate to think it was bad media because I have a few hundered Memorex’s and can’t fathom the fact that my Lite On drive is incompatible with the most common brand of media. Since I have tried 2 different types of burning software, I might suspect just having a bad DVD drive, but that seems weird because it plays DVD’s/games just fine, and it goes through the entire burn process, just craps out just before saying “job complete” Any suggestions? Are there some settings I need to mess with that I don’t know about? Is there a compatibility issue with Lite On drives and Memorex DVD’s? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-my-dvd-burner-finalize-disks/492622/2 "2009-04-10T08:45:22Z")
Oh yeah, the firmware is up to date, in case it matters. ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-my-dvd-burner-finalize-disks/492622/3 "2009-04-10T14:05:43Z")
First thing I would try is burning at a slower speed. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-my-dvd-burner-finalize-disks/492622/4 "2009-04-10T15:29:34Z")
You don’t mention the OS. Ahem. Anyhoo, some older versions of MS OSes cause a problem like this due to autorun kicking in. Turn off autorun for that drive and see if that helps. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-my-dvd-burner-finalize-disks/492622/5 "2009-04-10T15:46:00Z")
> [@I\_Know\_Nothing](#): > > Any suggestions? Try [InfraRecorder](http://infrarecorder.org/). I seems pretty bulletproof to me. If it fails, it would strongly suggest to me a hardware problem or a media problem. Caveat: I have only actually used the PortableApps version. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-my-dvd-burner-finalize-disks/492622/6 "2009-04-10T16:02:59Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > You don’t mention the OS. Ahem. > > Anyhoo, some older versions of MS OSes cause a problem like this due to autorun kicking in. Turn off autorun for that drive and see if that helps. Oh yeah. Windows XP. Just disabled auto-run. Will try again. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-my-dvd-burner-finalize-disks/492622/7 "2009-04-11T08:37:38Z")
So I turned off autorun and downloaded Infrarecorder. I just successfully burned a 2GB mpeg to a DVD. I’m not exactly sure what did the trick. I’ll tinker around once I get my hands on a DVD-RW. My seemingly inexhaustible supply of DVD-R’s took a big hit over the last few weeks after I made about 30 coasters trying to figure this out. One weird thing. I could not get the mpeg to play in my DVD-RW drive. I finally tried it in my DVD-ROM drive (which is also ia Lite-on)and it worked just fine. Go figure.