I cann't get a DL burn that works. I have tried many times burning a DL+R disk and they all have problems at some point playing on my DVD Player. The last one I did started having playing problems at about the 1 hour mark. Seems like it have something to do with being DL. I have never had a bad burn of a single layer disk. I am using DVD Author 1.6. I am using TDK DVD+R DL media. Any idea's?

Hi!

I'm currently using Memorex +R DL disks, and not having any real problems with them. I have to use a DVD player that specifically supports +R (not all the off-the-shelf models do).

Since all off-the-shelf DVD players support -R DL, that's what I used to use. THOSE were the ones that were giving me the same problem that you're encountering. My drive specifies that it supports everything, minus and plus, single- and dual-layer, but DVD Author's DVD writer never seemed to like DL -R disks. Dunno why.

I also found years ago that burning at the maximum speed the software claims my hardware will support ALWAYS results in a bad disks (problems much like you describe). DVD Author claims it'll write at 16x? I jack it down to 12x. Haven't had a disk burn bad since. Try that.

Dj