Thinkpad T60 Optical Drive

I have a T60 (model 200772U) and want to convert AVI movie files to a DVD. I obtained WinAVIVideoConverter, did everything that was asked and specified my D drive (where my blank DVD is) as the output destination but I keep getting an error message.

The specs listed for CD/DVD type on this Thinkpad are: CD-RW/DVD+RW. I popped a DVD-R blank DVD into the optical drive. Could it be that the optical drive only takes DVD+R? I find the specs terribly difficult to understand in this area, and would appreciate if anybody can provide insight. I had no trouble burning music onto a CD-.

 

It will burn both + and - Rs. What is the error message?

 

2 boxes come up:

1. STOP - D:\DVD_01\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VDB
2. The destination MPEG/DVD file cannot be written, please check your harddrive and Windows, make sure it can be written.

I can't imagine the AVI file has problems with it. I play it back just find on Windows Media Player.

Any ideas?

 

What is the file extension of the file you are burning .vob or .avi? What software are you using to burn?

 

Ok, I was able to create a bunch of .ifo and .vob files in a VIDEO_TS folder with the aid of WinAVI Video Converter. I have ImgBurn and have never used it before. When it prompts me to select a file, I go hunting for all supported files and cannot seem to get any of the file extensions required from the VIDEO_TS folder.

I am new to the burning game but I believe I am following the steps correctly. Convert files from hard drive (in this case .AVI file) to DVD format (in this case used WinAVI Video Converter to produce .ifo and .vob video files), then use the burner to write the converted files onto the blank DVD.

Please assist if you can.

 

What file extensions are you looking for? A DVD should have .ifo, .bup and .vob files on it. Were you looking at this.

 

Not 100% certain if it was ZaZ who mensioned this, but I recall hearing that the optical drives (specifically the DVD +- RW) used by IBM are inferior in quality to the competition, and that one would be better off to just have a CD-RW (and burn DVDs from another source).
This was some time ago, perhaps the quality has improved.

 

The Mat****a drives aren't horrible, but can be a little picky on media and not quite as good as some other drives I've used. Laptop burners in general aren't as good as thir desktop counterparts. If you do a lot of burning you should probably external desktop drive.

 

You may want to try Nero to burn your DVDs. You can download a free trial at nero.com.