Creating 2000 DVDs - How ?

[penang]

Hi all.

My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
celebration.

Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
trying to find a way to speed up the task.

In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
XP.

My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.

The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
get really ugly.

We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
can use to burn the DVD ?

In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?

I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
software that can do the job.

Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.

If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
better.

Thank you all !

 

[smlunatick]

Hi all.

My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
celebration.

Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
trying to find a way to speed up the task.

In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
XP.

My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.

The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
get really ugly.

We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
can use to burn the DVD ?

In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?

I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
software that can do the job.

Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.

If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
better.

Thank you all !

Are you using the "bundled" OEM version of Nero or the full "retail"
boxed version of Nero?

 

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My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
celebration.

Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
trying to find a way to speed up the task.

In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
XP.

My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.

The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
get really ugly.

We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
can use to burn the DVD ?

In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?

I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
software that can do the job.

Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.

If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
better.

Thank you all !

The following all support multiple simultaneous recorders:

Nero - you need to purchase special license for more than a few
recorders
RecordNow - v6.5 and lower support 64 burners, but don't know for v6.5+

DeepBurner, DiscJuggler, Gear Pro - Ask them

 

[Mike Richter]

Are you using the "bundled" OEM version of Nero or the full "retail"
boxed version of Nero?

I missed the original post, so am tagging onto the reply. First, I do
recommend having 2000 copies pressed rather than burned. It's
inexpensive whether you have the backs printed or not, playability is
better and wear and tear on hardware and people is less. I've had a
couple of dozen titles pressed although I own a four-drive duplicating
tower.

A single instance of Nero will burn multiple copies. I have two
different Plextor burners (one EIDE, one SATA) and regularly burn two
copies of a disc. I have had more than three optical drives under XP Pro
at one time, but have not run more than two at once.

Mike

 

[Alan]

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Mike Richter, were you born with
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http://tinyurl.com/gqnae
http://tinyurl.com/2qnvph
http://tinyurl.com/38wte6

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(LIBEL -- despite Mikey claimed to have PROOF of libels & misquotes!)
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The following all support multiple simultaneous recorders:

Nero - you need to purchase special license for more than a few
recorders
RecordNow - v6.5 and lower support 64 burners, but don't know for v6.5+

DeepBurner, DiscJuggler, Gear Pro - Ask them

Do the math of how long it will take you to do it, then get a few quotes
and do some cost-benefit analysis. Its not really "free" if it takes
you 100 hours to do it.

-Alan
(631) 277-7025

 

[Harry331]

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Hi all.

My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
celebration.

Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
trying to find a way to speed up the task.

In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
XP.

My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.

The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
get really ugly.

We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
can use to burn the DVD ?

In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?

I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
software that can do the job.

Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.

If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
better.

Thank you all !

I have a DVD with 4.5GB movie content, converted to Dixv and
then uploaded to Youtube. Once download everything back from
Youtube,they occuplied less than 200MB FLV images.

You don't need to burn 2000 DVD's, just upload them to Youtube.

BTW, if you want a commandline burning software, try cdrtools.
It's free.

 

[smh]

Mike Richter spewed:

<snip>

Mikey, can't you spare a time from your spewing to update whether the
FAQ has corrected the common mistake?

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Mike Richter: CD-R Faq Makes a Common Mistake
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From: Mike Richter
Date: 9/16/01

the FAQ makes a common mistake in that section,
confusing Enhanced CD with its predecessor, CD Extra
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[smh]

Mike Richter spewed:

<snip>

Mikey, can't you spare a time from your spewing to update whether the
FAQ has corrected the conflict with references?

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Mike Richter: CD-R Faq Conflicts with References
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From: Mike Richter
Date: 5/14/01

Yes, the FAQ says that a Mixed Mode disc
is written in a single session.

I don't doubt it...but it conflicts with

other information I have gleaned from
references
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[smh]

Mike Richter spewed:

<snip>

Mikey, can't you spare a time from your spewing to update whether the
FAQ has corrected the significant errors?

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Mike Richter: CD-R Faq has Significant Errors
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From: Mike Richter
Date: 5/24/02

I've posted privately to Andy on the FAQ section.

It is quite dated ... and has significant errors
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[Dave Cohen]

Hi all.

My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
celebration.

Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
trying to find a way to speed up the task.

In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
XP.

My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.

The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
get really ugly.

We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
can use to burn the DVD ?

In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?

I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
software that can do the job.

Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.

If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
better.

Thank you all !

Sound like your Nero should do it, but if you want other choices there
is burncdcc.zip from www.terabyteunlimited.com. ir0431_unicode.exe is
what I used to burn a Ubuntu cd from .iso because they told me to
although I have other software.
Dave Cohen

 

[smh]

.. --------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------

I own a four-drive duplicating tower.

Whatever happened to these duplicators, Mikey?

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From: Mike Richter
Date: 8/18/04

I also have a duplicator with one each Pioneer A103 and A107 drive.

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From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/27/05

I have a CD/DVD duplicator with NEC drives
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