Recorded DVD showing as empty?

[Goodson1974]

I'm having a bizarre problem with DVDs that i've recorded on an LG DVD recorder.

To set the scene, i picked up some old family videos from my mum's so that i could transfer them from VHS to DVD using my LG DVD recorder.

They transferred to DVD fine, and were playable on both the DVD recorder and my Denon DVD player.

When i put the DVD into my PC so that i could copy the home movies and tweak the quality, the DVD was showing as empty.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this or whether there's a way round this?

[mc4man]

I don't have a standalone dvd recorder but is there some option when burning the dvd to finalize the disk vs being able to continue to write to it?

[Goodson1974]

Hi

There is a finalise option which i have used, but this hasn't solved the problem.

[pietjanjaap]

Learn how to test a burnt dvd.
Go to www.cdfreaks.com, go to forum.
There you can find it, then you can test a dvd, then you know if the dvd is ok or not.

Did you try more dvd's? different names.
Do other dvd's work.
Maybe your burner is not good.

So learn how to test, then you know what is the problem.

[Goodson1974]

I've just tried viewing the DVDs in XP and they worked fine and the contents could be browsed.

Went back into Ubuntu and viewed the DVD contents using gksudo nautilus.
This was very strange as this has never happened with any other DVDs before.