Like many others i am a newbie to all of this.. Was told from a friend this was a great web site to get friendly help on. So here it goes.. Ive been burning movies for a long time now. For some reason for the last month or so all my movies, when watching them are freezing up or skipping.. I use dvd shrink & dvdfab. i have bought sony, maxwell & memorex. the problems is happening on all of them.. and now im even gettin a new error saying burn did not complete at 16X it stops at 99%... can someone plz help me? it has really gotten frustrating and these dvds are not cheap. ( lost alot of good movies from these problems..
Hi Tammy41 You might just need an update the firmware on the burner if there is a newer one. What's the make, model and firmware version of the burner? If you burning from Shrink sounds like you may have Nero. If you do then go to Nero ToolKit>InfoTool. The drop down will have the make & model. The drive tab has a field for the firmware version. Drop the burn speed down to 8x too. For the media Sony is good - for Maxell look for made in Japan only - Memorex well just skip them all together. Other good ones would be Verbatim or made in Japan only Fuji.
Hi & Thank you so very much Binkie..... I am a computer DUMMY big time lol... i pulled up nero & im tryin to find where it says Toolkit? would u know where its located...ok i found that my burner is a Memorex DVD 16+/-DL4RW1D2 firmware version is JWS5.... I dont know how to update it... Also i dont know how to change the speed... any help would be very much appreciated... tysvm
The newest updated firmware for your DVD drive is JWS6 Which you can get at the link below... http://www.memorex.com/downloads/software/JWS6.zip You will have to use a compression program like WinRAR to extract the file from the RAR file which it is packed into. Then just run the executable file to upgrade your drive to the updated firmware. Below is a nice guide on hot to use DVDFab decrypter with VobBlanker and DVD shrink to backup your DVD. Follow it and you should get a pretty good handle on how the programs work and where to change options at. http://my.afterdawn.com/alkohol/all_blog_entries.cfm?month=10&year=2006
Hi Larry & ty so much for the info.. I went to the Winrar & downloaded it, but when i click on the memorex link to update it will not come up.. I have tried it on 2 different computers.. could you please tell me another way to get to it? I tried again to burn more movies lastnight, but the problem is still there.. its still skipping & freezing when i go to watch the movie. Also would you know where i need to go to change my speed on my burner. Its on 16x & want to change it to a lower one.. tysvm for any info... Tammy
I uploaded the firmware update to my server so click on the link below and you should be able to download it. (If it does not start look at the top part of your browser under the toolbar and make sure that the browser is not keeping it from being downloaded. If you see a little yellow type bar across the top of the browser then right click on it and choose to download file. http://webpages.charter.net/larrylje/JWS6.EXE Let me know when you have the firmware file so I can take it off my site. For other options in DVD Shrink that could help your backup copy look below... You might want to try and custom set the output size of the DVD to 4360. This will keep the DVD from being burnt to close to the edge of the media. Do this by doing the below steps... To change the burn speed follow the steps below (It is best to burn at half the rated speed. So if you have 16x media burn at 8x. You really do not want to go below 4x. So if your media is 4x or 8x then burn at 4x)... After you setup the DVD to be backed up and you click on the backup button then the following window comes up which I give steps below that tells you how to change the speed when this window appers... I hope this covers most of what you wanted and hope it clears up your DVD backup problems.
ok im at the puter. i just d/l the link to memorex but when it was done & i went to click on it, it says The Publisher could not be verfied are you sure you want to run this software. So i hit run then i get C/ program files \jws6.exe is not a valid win32 application :*(.. geez i wish i wasnt so dumb
