Does my laptop need a new dvd drive? (Nero failing)?

Question

Ok so for some time now I have been converting like 5 avi movies to an iso, then burning the iso to dvd using roxio. Some of the movies/episodes i burn run slow on the dvd, but are perfect on the pc (ie. run at lower fps than normal, i can set the dvd one and pc one at the same point and 2 mins later the dvd one will be a fair bit behind).

I recently reformatted my computer, and decided i liked nero better. I have been using nero 7 suite (nero startsmart) with nero vision 4 to burn my dvds.

My intentions are to now burn 1 avi to dvd, as i need it better quality to play on a higher resolution tv. So nero converts the 700mb avi to 4.37gb, transcoding it and the menus fine. It then gets to the point to burn the dvd, but runs into an error. It is a very general error message - "Error failed to burn" or something like that.
The first dvd I did worked. The same error came up, except at the end of the burning process, not before. However when i play this dvd, parts are jumpy or pause up. Now it just doesnt start the burn process, and the dvd is left blank after transcoding the avi.

Also, when i insert certain cds/dvds into my laptops drive, the laptop pauses up and nothing happens until i eject the drive, when it instantly unpauses and is fine again. I take the cds to my other pc (older desktop - WinXP) in which they work fine - no pausing up and it shows the data on them (note these discs do not have much data on them at all)

Lastly, when i reformatted two months ago, it took 2 attempts to read my legit vista boot disc. When i reformatted last week (i wanted to make new partitions and change raid volume so i could dual boot xp and vista) it would not read my xp boot disc, and it took about 10 attempts to read my vista boot disc.
The xp boot disc was created with a torrent (.daa) and the laptops burner, so i was sketchy if it would read it, but my desktop (has xp 32bit installed) read the boot disc, however was unable to use it as it cannot run a 64bit OS (the laptop can).

Oh and i forgot to mention, i installed nero on my WinXP desktop and it burnt perfectly first attempt. Also when the vista boot cd is inserted and cd is in the boot order in bios (even if below internal harddrive) it takes AGES to boot up the harddrive, but speeds up when i eject the disc.

So all this failure to read discs, errors in burning and pausing up when certain discs are inserted leads me to believe the dvd drive is in need of replacement (its still in warranty)

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Heres the nero error log if anyone can interpret it:
[15:30:19] ExpressUI Log restarted (Date: 04/14/2009)
[15:30:19] ExpressUI Running Nero Vision Version: 4.9.7.2
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Burn process started by user.
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Destination: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Directory for temporary files: C:\Users\Dayno\AppData\Local\Temp
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Available hard disk space for temporary files: 321048.473 MB
[15:30:40] ExpressUI --------------
[15:30:40] ExpressUI --- Project type: DVD-Video
[15:30:40] ExpressUI --- Project video options ---
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Video mode: NTSC
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Aspect ratio: Automatic
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Quality: Automatic (fit to disc) (5073 kbit/s)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Resolution: Automatic
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Sample format: Automatic
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Video format: MPEG-2
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Audio format: Automatic
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Encoding mode: Fast Encoding (1-Pass)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Nero SmartEncoding: Automatic
[15:30:40] ExpressUI --- Project space information ---
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Media type: DVD (4700000000 bytes maximum capacity)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Total space used: 4.37 out of 4.38 GB (Quality: Good)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Space used for menus: 0.5 out of 1024.0 MB
[15:30:40] ExpressUI --- Project contents ---
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Audio format: Automatic
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Sample format: Automatic
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Encoding mode: Fast Encoding (1-Pass)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Nero SmartEncoding: Automatic
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Number of titles: 1
[15:30:40] ExpressUI 1. Twilight[2008]DvDrip-aXXo (Video Title, 2h 01m 50s)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Video mode: NTSC
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Aspect ratio: 16:9
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Quality: Custom (4745 kbit/s)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Resolution: 704 x 480 (D1)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Sample format: Progressive
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Video format: MPEG-2
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Audio format: Dolby Digital (AC-3) 2.0
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Encoding mode: Fast Encoding (1-Pass)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Audio SmartEncoding ratio: 0.0 %
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Video SmartEncoding ratio: 0.0 %
[15:30:40] ExpressUI Number of menus: 1
[15:30:40] ExpressUI - Main menu (1 page)
[15:30:40] ExpressUI --------

Answer 1

You should mail to avs support team for help, or you can try Ez Video Converter, it can convert any vdieos and audios from one format to another format, such as avi to mp4, wmv to mp4, etc, offer the better video quality, offer the multi kinds of resize mode.You can downloaded ez Video Converter from:http://www.eztoosoft.com/eztoo-dvd-ripper.html

Answer 2

Looks like the drive is failing

Answer 3

could it be the laser lens needs to be cleaned?



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