Consider that the player may be at fault. Almost 2 decades ago, when I was considering getting a DVD+RW drive for my PC, I thoroughly researched them and found

Consider that the player may be at fault. Almost 2 decades ago, when I was considering getting a DVD+RW drive for my PC, I thoroughly researched them and found they all had differing error correction algorithms, and it made a world of a difference. I got one known for this, and it often played DVDs that neither my standalone DVD player nor my roommate's DVD player on his PC could play. I would have thought that by now they'd all be good at this, but it seems not.