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So, I burned one DVD fine. I was so proud of myself. I encoding and did everything perfectly. Woo-hoo.

So, naturally, now I have a problem. Well, the second DVD I tried to bunr give me this message "Could not create disc structure. Dvd burn FAILED!!"

I don't know what's wrong! Has this happened to anyone else? Can any help me out? Please! Pretty please!

were you burning an image directly from your hard drive or copying from one device to another?

Um, I'm burning to an external drive. I-is that what you mean? I encoded it using some program, I then put together the files in Nero, and I tried to copy them to the extensal DVD burner.

Does that answer the question? Sorry. I don't really know THAT much about computer. I'm sort of the technology pioneer in our family, so, what I know, I had to pretty much figure out on my own. That should tell you what bad shape our family is in in the technology area, shouldn't it?

What the-- YOU'RE THE TECHNOLOGY PIONEER IN OUR FAMILY?! BWA HA Ha ha haaaa. . . ahem, I mean, yes, it would be very nice if someone who knew something about this could help us out. We would really like to be able to finish burning this series, but it seems that we've come up against a wall and it's darned frustrating. *snickers and runs away*

What are you using to encode the video, what kind of dvd's are you using: speed and brand? Also sometimes I get that when I'm using DVD+R's. DVD-R's tend to be much better when it comes to dvd-videos.

How fast are you burning the dvd? If you haven't tried, try bumping down the burn speed to about 2X or 4X. That seems to work for me. Especially on video dvd's it's pretty important to do that. May take longer but it's worth it. Also, how much memory do you have in your computer?

If all else fails, you may just have to burn one dvd at a time; different sessions.

agasfas wrote:What are you using to encode the video, what kind of dvd's are you using: speed and brand? Also sometimes I get that when I'm using DVD+R's. DVD-R's tend to be much better when it comes to dvd-videos.

To encode the video, I'm using Nero Express 3.0. Right now, I'm using memorex, 8x, DVD-R.

How fast are you burning the dvd? If you haven't tried, try bumping down the burn speed to about 2X or 4X. That seems to work for me. Especially on video dvd's it's pretty important to do that. May take longer but it's worth it. Also, how much memory do you have in your computer?

Someone on another board suggested I was burning them too fast. I was really confused, because Nero never made me decide what speed to burn at. After browsing around a lot, I finally found where I could change the speed. It was set at "max." I bumpe dit down to 8x and tried again (assuming that since that was the DVD speed, I could burn at that speed). I'll gladly try bumping it back to 2x or 4x, though. Time doesn't matter to me. I'm just sick of wasting DVDs.

Thanks for your suggestions, Agasfas. I really appreciate it! I don't know anyone who can help me.
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Alas, poor DVD number six. I knew it well!

I tried burning at 2x, and if failed again. This time, rather than walk off, I stayed by the computer to watch the progress. I think there might just be a problem with one of the files. It seemed the first one burned fine, but once it got to the second one, the drive spit the DVD out, giving me the same error message. I'm gonna try burning different files, and see if I have a problem. That might be a ridiculous idea, but, if it is, I'm not tech savvy enough to know it.

AH HA!!

So, I tried burning a different set of files and it burned just swimmingly. I guess the files I was trying to burn were corrupted. Yeah, five DVDs wasted on a bad file. That's sad.

Maybe you should invest in a DVD+RW or DVD-RW disc. Then after the first disc became a coaster, you could test subsequent burns on the rewritable, and hence not waste more discs.

Also, I've found only DVD+Rs work for video with our DVD player - it didn't like the DVD-Rs at all.