Problem with burning disc in finder

trying to burn a dvd with some mp4 files. sometimes it says "disc cannont be used because it cannot be recognized". i eject it and insert gain and the blank dvd mounts and shows up in finder. but when i try to burn i get this error code saying it wont burn cause the disc is in use. i didnt have this problem a few months ago. any ideas? i did did dl and run main menu for the first time a week ago....dont know if that might have changed some disk utility permision thing.....thanks
10.5.7 on 2.4 alum macbook

Hi, b.lang4
my guess is that it is a bad disk. I had more often this kind of erratic behavior with cheap CD's. can you confirm with a CD? do you have a batch of different DVDs?
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