Formatting DVD-RW/DVD+RW

Brock · **Joined:** Thu May 12, 2005 4:30 pm **Posts:** 20

Hey guys.. I'm having some inconsistencies with some re-writeable DVDs. This particular brand of DVD-RWs (TDK) when new.. Starburn says that the disk is blank and the next writeable address is valid. However when i try to burn to the disk i get an error. If i erase the disk before burning it.. it works fine.

Is erasing the disk the correct way to format this media? Is there a way to know when I need to erase before i can burn?

Brock · **Joined:** Thu May 12, 2005 4:30 pm **Posts:** 20

I should also note that the other media I have right now.. (DVD+RW) when it is new.. reports the next writeable address as not valid.. so i know then that I need to erase it and everything works fine.

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:44 pm

Brock, what burner do you have? Can you send us debug logs from our console applications (say TrackAtOnceFromTree) trying to burn something to brand new, just unpacked media? Thanks!

Brock · **Joined:** Thu May 12, 2005 4:30 pm **Posts:** 20

The drive is an LG "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM gsa-4167b".

I emailed my log file to support@rocketdivision.com

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:32 pm

Got the logs. Wrote some questions. Please check the mail. Thanks!

Brock wrote:

The drive is an LG "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM gsa-4167b".

I emailed my log file to support@rocketdivision.com

Brock · **Joined:** Thu May 12, 2005 4:30 pm **Posts:** 20

I'm having this problem again with some media that does work in Starburn samples and in Nero. So.. now i know that I am doing something wrong in my code.

I'm trying to burn a DVD Video on a DVD-RW on both my HP burner and LITE-ON burner and everything succeeds fine but afterwards the disc is not recognized. I can erase it and burn it with Starburn sample program and the movie plays fine.

I noticed that for some reason I am not entering the Quick Format callback. Just looking at my code.. i do all the same initialization as you. Maybe I have a parameter to a function wrong somwhere? Can anyone suggest where I might look to find the cause of this problem?

Brock · **Joined:** Thu May 12, 2005 4:30 pm **Posts:** 20

I should mention that DVD-Video burns okay on both my drives with DVD+RW, DVD-R and regular DVD Data discs burn okay on all types.

I emailed my logs to support@rocketdivision.com .. if you have chance to look at my problem.

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:07 pm

Sure we'll have a chance

Brock wrote:

I should mention that DVD-Video burns okay on both my drives with DVD+RW, DVD-R and regular DVD Data discs burn okay on all types.

I emailed my logs to support@rocketdivision.com .. if you have chance to look at my problem.

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