Okay I was stupid....

I had just installed the new DVD program "DVD Identifier" and then I got my DVDINFOPro to work. (The firewall was screwing things up.)

Anyways, I started looking at the two read-outs and wondering what they all meant and then I wondered how my new SONY 8X media might

COMPARE TO THE FUJI -R MEDIA THAT WOULDN'T WORK RIGHT.


And then it all became clear to me.



Dim bulb that I am. Occured to me that may be the WHOLE POINT of downloading and installing the program was to look at the old BAD media, and not the new GOOD media.

So I ran DVDInfoPro on the Fujifilm DVD-R media that gave me 7 coasters in a row before the BenQ started spitting out perfect Sony's at 16X, one right after another.

Here's the skinny on the old bad Fuji, for the experts to chew on...

quote:

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID 5j)US
Format Capacity Not Formatted
Free Blocks 412352512
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.71GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Media Id Code Speed Unknown
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps
Write Strategy Speed 2.0x 2770KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

What I notice is that the "Media Id Code Speed" is "Unknown", which makes me wonder. Also I am seeing a lot of "2's" next to "X's" which also makes me wonder.

Can anyone look at this data and tell me something about why the Fujifilm DVD-R media threw out 7 consecutive blanks on a system that has done about 10 perfect burns at 16X?

Thanks in advance.

(in reply to SithTracy)