Burned DvDs not playing

I use ConvertXtoDvD 3 to convert AVIs to DvD and burn to disk. Many times the disk isn't readable by my DvD players, but plays just fine in my LG GSA-H22L. My PS2 will almost always studder when playing one. Sometimes, I reconvert & burn it again and it will play. I'm using maxell DVD-R 4.7GB 16x disks.

Is the problem the conversion, the disks, or what?

In general optical drives have become being so cheap, that noone cares about quality. Unfortunately even the better hardware is of a really poor quality.
The error-correction-argotithms of DVD-drives can "repair" many errors, but most burned media are moreless defective, when it's just burned.

Reducing speed significantly improves quality. If the recommended write-speed is 16x use 8x or even less instead. (It's still faster than trying to burn non-playing disks again and again.)



Standalone-player often have trouble with burned media and with some "read-protected" disks (so called copy-protected - you can't copy what you can't read ).

A good approach is testing with different media types -RW or +-R and testing disks from different manufacturers.
Some player are trying to find the second Layer of a DL-disk and can't find one on a CD-R or single-layer DVD+-R.
Test yourself or google the name of your player for supported/working media (manufacturer).



If disks play at least sometimes reducing write-speed should be good alredy.
Disks, which are readable in certain DVD-drives only, indicate bad quality.
Disks that don't play in some players indicate problems in the combination of Player and Disk.

Deity wrote:
Your DVD player is simply outdated. I had the same issue for years until I bought a cheap new player that plays rip-back-to-movie DVDs made by programs like ConvertXtoDVD.