DVD Writer problem

[mers]

I'm not a newbie to PC's , been building , upgrading since 286 days ( Second name is Noah. lol.).
Anyway i went to burn a downloaded rip of a film with ConvertX to DVD , which I have been using for years.
Program converted and burnt to disc successfully so it said , all as usual. Disc turned out to still be blankand on re-insertion up came the usual box asking how I wanted to burn /use the disc.
I have now tried on 3 different PC's with 3 different versions of ConvertX , new Verbatim DVD's,
( a brand I have always used without issues). One system is on Win10 the other 2 are on Win7 and even fitted
a new DVD writer to one PC. I also tried CDBurner XP but nomatter the result is the same ,
blank disc after supposed burning success.
I Googled this and lots of peeps with issues very similar and there
seems most of the replies state to remove high and low filters at a point in the registry to which virtually all
reply state that the filters are not there anyway. I sit lost for ideas and getting ready to pull my hair out.

[oldboy47]

Have you tried burning/reading something else other than the ripped film?

[mers]

Hi , thanks for the reply. I was getting so annoyed with this that I didn't think to try another movie file. I copied back a file from an external drive that I had converted / burned before and still have the same problem. My next experiment will be to totally reformat a spare PC and just load Win7 Pro , ConvertX and VLC Player no AV or anything else. If this also fails I'm retiring to the North Pole and gonna become a monk. Lol.

[oldboy47]

The next thing to check is can you write anything to a blank dvd - music or data say - and then subsequently read it on another device. I once had a similar problem. It turned out that an update had reset settings so that the end of file was not written to the disc so that further data could be added.

[mers]

Hi , thanks for the reply again. Never resolved this as such. I reformatted another PC and loaded an early version of Win 7 SP1 , Late edition of ConvertX , VLC player and nothing else. Finally burning films as was. I tend to think here that is something in Windows , 7 late , Win10 or Anti - virus ( Avast ) has caused me these issues. At least I can now burn when needed so I can stop wasting time over this. I have spare PC's all the time so not a problem. Anyway , thanks again for the input. Cheers.