Hey, I was jsut wondering:

say you have a blank dvd-r disc, which has a very light scratch or an ugly piece of dust on it when you put it into the drive...

will the burner recognize that there is something obstructing the path, and skip that part, or will it burn onto that section anyway, with the result of the movie like, freezing at that exact part??

the reason I ask, is cause...I burnt a dvd and when I looked at the bottom, there was like a dark spot somewhere along the outside of the disc...by dark i mean the color the disc is before it has anything burnt onto it.

(i could just watch the whole dvd and see if anything is wrong, but that would take quite a while, and I saw the movie just a few days ago)

I had the same thing happen a while ago, but it was at the inside of the disc, so I watched the beginning and everything seemed alright.

jsut asking to make sure though...

(sorry if the post is sort of confusing)

If there's dirt or scratches on the blank disk, it's highly likely that this will create a bad burn.
The only real way to find out is to play the disk in your player and watch for problems. You may be lucky, it all depends how severe the damage or dirt was, as to whether the laser could burn through it.

Good Luck

Yup I had a disc with spotting on the outside and I didn't think anything of it but, after I burned and I was watching the movie it read perfectly until it got to the spots and then it started freezing up and skipping all over the place. make sure your disc is as clean as possible before writing on it. Do you leave them in your cake box spindle with the lid on or what? I never leave my DVD media uncovered unless I am going to use it within the next few minutes. The rest of the time it stays covered to avoid the chance of getting dust in it.

ya I leave the media covered all the time. Oh well, I'll just have to watch them an see. These are gonna be my master copies, so I'll need them to play perfectly.

Surley you can ffd your disc to save having to watch it all again. I do this if i feel there maybe problems and if there is the player locks at that point

sorry, im sorta new to this whole dvd burning thing. how do I ffd the disc, and what does that actually do??

ffd=Fast Forward.

lol thanks. seriously feel like an idiot now

but would that actually work??I mean if there is a problem on the disc, it doesnt neccesarily freeze completely when you watch it. It might just skip for a second. Would that make it lock up completely when you're fast forwarding??

I did a backup of "Antibody" that froze in a particular spot every time, but I could fast forward right over it. I would not fully trust a copy without a realtime watch, myself. Turned out that the copy really was a clone of the original, which froze in the exact same spot.

ya, I guess I'll just have to do that. Too bad. It would be cool if there were a program you could run, which could analyze the dvd, and see if there is anything wrong, which might make the movie skip or freeze.