Okay I’m fully aware of how ridiculous this sounds in 2023, but bare with me.

I have a wonderful neighbour, Jackie. She’s in her mid-sixties, and ever since she moved in we have become very good friends, she’s like a second mom to me.

Jackie loves movies and has an enormous DVD collection. One day, she was talking about how she couldn’t find a particular movie, and I said “I can probably download that for you!” Her immediate reply was “Can you put it on a DVD?” I tried telling her the many reasons it would be better to use a myriad of other solutions, but she insists on DVDs.

I did them for a while using DVDStyler on Windows, and it worked fine. But then I installed EndeavourOS on a new partition on my hard drive, tried using Brasero and Devede but it wouldn’t read on her DVD player. Then I tried DVDStyler on my Linux partition, and it didn’t work on her DVD player, despite saying the operation was successful on my end. I then tried booting up into Windows and using DVDStyler, and that also didn’t work, not even letting me burn the disc. Does anyone have any ideas what could fix this? I’ve tried playing around with the settings in all these apps but I couldn’t figure it out.

Apologies if this isn’t the best place to ask this, but I figured a community of pirates would understand my desire to get movies to Jackie without her having to pray to find them in a pawn shop!

  • Evkob@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    It’s done this with multiple files, even ones which previously worked. The blanks are from the same spindle, and I’ve also tested with another batch. My PC can’t read them either.

    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m guessing your writer is failing.

      Same data

      Same media

      Multiple os rules out malware, mostly

      Without being there to watch and understand your process, I have to assume you know what you are doing and haven’t missed a step in the writing process, such as finishing the disk or whatever. The fact that you are using multiple applications on multiple operating systems lends confidence.

      That leaves the hardware itself. Luckily a new writer isn’t expensive.

      • Evkob@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Yeah that’s kinda the only conclusion I could come to, this post is really a last-ditch effort to see if anyone more knowledgeable than me could figure anything out before I spend money on new hardware. Like if something I did in the BIOS while figuring out my dual-boot could have messed up any firmware settings for the disc drive or some other sort of issue.

        • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          As kolorafa said, writing at a lower speed might help.

          Also, how is read performance on the optical drive? Could you try a commercial disk to see if it plays well?

          If you made basic changes to your boot order I can’t see it causing performance issues with the drive. I can’t think of any settings that would cause issues.