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DVD is Skipping After Burning

Hello,

I have spent many hours trying to figure this issue out. I have Verbatim Archival DVD's (-R) which I recently purchased (made in Taiwan). I recently made a burn to one of the DVD's and there is major skipping while the DVD is playing on my Philips DVD player and a friend's DVD player. I have burned at the slowest supported speeds, and tried using Toast and Disk Utility too. Do you think that something is wrong with my DVD drive? I have tried multiple times to get this to work, but it's not working and the skip is very annoying. I also used a gentle DVD drive cleaner made by Memorex.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 6, 2009 3:51 PM

25 replies

J Keller

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Jun 6, 2009 9:21 PM in response to ComputerWhiz

This sounds like an expensive problem. If you Save as Disc Image, does it play properly? This will help help isolate where the problem is occuring in the work flow.
John

ComputerWhiz Author

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Jun 9, 2009 9:36 AM in response to ComputerWhiz

OK, just burned at 8x speed. Also pressed the verify checkbox. I receive the error "unable to burn "test.img". (verification of the burn failed).

Help!

ComputerWhiz Author

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Jun 9, 2009 11:33 AM in response to ComputerWhiz

Just burned to Memorex. Tested on all of my devices and works perfectly.

Does this mean that:

1. My DVDs are faulty?

2. My Apple SuperDrive is faulty in my laptop?

Thank you.

ComputerWhiz Author

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Jun 10, 2009 4:25 PM in response to TSilverX5

Wait, so you are saying I need to take my Macbook into an Apple Store?

J Keller

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Jun 10, 2009 11:45 PM in response to ComputerWhiz

Seems like your results indicate a problem with the DVDs. Works fine with one brand but not another?
John

Jun 11, 2009 4:04 AM in response to Cheryle Zahm

John,
If you can give some hints possibly to the cause of this I know many people will appreciate your time. I will write down and stick the hints on my drafting lamp. This was very scary.
Cheri

ComputerWhiz Author

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Jun 11, 2009 9:58 AM in response to Cheryle Zahm

Do you think that my MacBook is having a problem burning -R DVDs? My Memorex are +R.

I am not sure if it really matters. Thoughts please.

Thank you.

J Keller

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Jun 12, 2009 8:21 PM in response to Cheryle Zahm

You're welcome.

ComputerWhiz Author

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Jun 16, 2009 3:28 PM in response to J Keller

Thanks J Keller.

I sent the Verbatim DVDs back the other day for replacement.

Let's keep our fingers crossed . . . (;

Thanks again.

ComputerWhiz Author

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Jun 24, 2009 4:18 PM in response to Beverly Maneatis

Hello,

I just received my replacement pack today, did a burn on my laptop, and so far so good!

I must have been that batch of DVDs.

Thanks so much!

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