#1 Burning Software

Working my way through an adaptation of one of the DVD burning examples, I get an error return on the GetTrackInformation and GetDiscInformation calls, and the program just hangs on the WriteTrackAtOnce call. (Please forgive me if I'm botching the names, as I'm not where I do my development as I write this.)

The FindDevice example shows my DVD burner can't burn DVD-RW, but since I'm not familiar with the several flavors of DVD and didn't realize it made a difference, that's what I bought to try this. So my question is: could media/burner incompatibility explain the results I've described?

A "no" answer will save me from buying a spindle of DVD-R, which the burner CAN write.

Thanks,
Elly

For the errors you've got from GetTrackInformation and GetDiscInformation I need DEBUG LOGS (see FAQ on how to get them). After receiving I'd be able to tell what's wrong. For now I cannot.

It's really strange it says it cannot burn DVD-RW. What device do you have? Actually please also provide us with a log from FindDevice execution and I'll check this out.

Thanks!

HOW I SOLVED IT

The problem was twofold:

First, Windows had to be told that the DVD burner was capable of writing. This is a Properties setting in the Device Manager.

Once this was fixed, the return from GetTrackInfo changed from EN_FAILURE to EN_SCSI_CDB_FAILED.

And that return code came because it was indeed necessary to use DVD-R media instead of DVD-RW.

Once these were solved, the program still hanged on WriteTrackAtOnce, but that happened because somewhere I failed to adapt the DVDWriteTrackAtOnce example properly. The original example burned a DVD once the other two problems were resolved.

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