Test for quality of DVD burn?

[Hawaiian2002]

Is there something out there that can test the quality of a burned DVD disk? Several times I have used Xcopy or similar software to burn movies to DVD. After I have burned a DVD, I quickly skip through each chapter to see if the burn went well. I have found several times I get "blocking" between chapters that make the scene unwatchable. By the time I find this out, many times I do not have the source disk handy. Is there a software program that can test the quality of the burn?

 

[Ryoga]

I don't know any software, but I have found that burning at a lower speed helps to reduce these kind of quality errors. I rarely burn over 4x for DVDs or 12x for CDs.

 

[Insane3D]

Yep. Just head over to DVDInfoPro.com and download the latest version of DVDInfoPro. Once you have it installed, run the error check on the CD after you burn it. When I first got my Nu Tech DVD-RW and burned some 4X media @ 8x, Nero went through and burned it fine. When I ran the error test though, there were thousands of errors.

I updated the firmware, tried again @ 8x, and no error at all came up. If it wasn't for that program, I would have never known that I had so many errors on the DVD.

 

[Hawaiian2002]

Thanks Insane3D. That was exactly what I was looking for. It errored out on a bad DVD I had and passed on a known good one. Perfect.

 

[0roo0roo]

nerocdspeed its free

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
nerocdspeed its free

So is DVDInfoPro...

 

[Algere]

KProbe if it's a Lite-On.

 

[Ryoga]

How did I not know about that functionality of Nero CD/DVD speed? :shocked:

Seeing that DVDInfoPro is adware/shareware, I'll stick to Nero's freeware.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Ryoga
How did I not know about that functionality of Nero CD/DVD speed? :shocked:

Seeing that DVDInfoPro is adware/shareware, I'll stick to Nero's freeware.

Never knew that either. I never really even looked at any of the other icons in the Nero Start Menu folder.