First of the MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-820S is a very picky drive about media. Make sure you use quality media, like Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden. Please make sure you have your Matshita as the Source and the External HD as the destination. Then when ther files are on your HD you should try and play them. The drive itself is a nightmare. If you do a google search you will see what I mean. Anyway if you can play them from the HD you should be able to burn them.
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