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  DVD Architect – disk burining observations

  Posted by Dave Felder on September 12, 2010 at 10:55 pm

  HP Quad Core 2 with 8300 CPU
  8 GM RAM
  gazillions space on hard drives
  DVD Architect 5.0b
  Win 7 Home Premium

  When trying to burn a project to a Verbatim DVD R- in this PC, I randomly get the following error:

  The command failed due to a IOCTL error…

  The error is fairly well documented on the web. Sometimes it’s claimed to be a driver error with the DVD burner, sometimes Sony says it’s a DVD Architect problem with no scheduled repair date. Either way, the problem is random. I can burn ten projects with no problem and then suddenly I have 4 DVD-r’s fail during the burn process, only to have the 5th one work.

  So, I’m using one of the included disk burning programs that came with the PC, called Cyberlink Power to Go.

  So, I had a little time today and did a experiment. The program is 3-1/2 minutes, created in Vegas 9, rendered to MPEG/AC3.

  When burned using DVD Architect, the burned space on the DVD is about 3/4 of inch wide, when looking at the bottom of the disk.

  When burned using Power to Go, it’s only 3/8 of an inch wide.

  The project is about 400 MB in size. Interesting that DVD Architect (which isn’t burning reliably) needs twice as much disk Real Estate to hold the same program that Cyberlink can fit on the same brand and size of disk.

  Just curious if any of the experts here know about the disk burning process and have any ideas.

  Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

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