DVD burning software

[Mark Warner]

Bought wifey a DVD burner for Christmas, and we've had nothing but
trouble with the included software.

Looking for something simple and straightforward, with a intuitive
interface. Will initially be used for file backup and storage; playback
of video files to come later, once she gets the hang of it.

W98se, P4, 512mb, lots o' HD space

 

[hyenapower]

I would place a telephone call to the digital video disk burner's company
and they shall assist you in making the included software work. Hope the
power of the hyena could assist you.

hyena

 

[Henry v Aarssen]

CDBurnerXP-PRO: http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDBurnerXP Pro is a freeware CD/DVD-Writer program. The program can write
CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW discs.

Free software with an 11 on a scale from one to ten!
But what amazes me is running w98se on a 512KB machine.....

regards, henry

 

[Mark Warner]

Bought wifey a DVD burner for Christmas, and we've had nothing but
trouble with the included software.

Looking for something simple and straightforward, with a intuitive
interface. Will initially be used for file backup and storage;
playback of video files to come later, once she gets the hang of it.

W98se, P4, 512mb, lots o' HD space

We gave up. DVD burning is not ready for prime time, or so it seems to
us.

The included software that came with this drive was atrocious -- the
computer froze and hung and rebooted itself and added non-existent
drives and changed drive letters and did all kinds of horseshit. Then,
once she did get it installed, the interface was so convoluted and
counter-intuitive that the two $4.00 coasters she burned was enough to
convince her that this wasn't something she wanted to spend any time
with. Mind you, the wife is very proficient when it comes to
this kind of stuff (both video and audio) in a CD format; we had assumed
it would be an easy transition. Not the case. Might be something to
revisit on down the line, once the technology (the software, anyway) has
matured a bit. Right now, it's just too flaky and too cutting edge for
us semi-geeks.

Thanks to all who offered their advise and suggestions.

 

[PKC]

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We gave up. DVD burning is not ready for prime time, or so it seems to
us.

This is what I'd say too.

 

[javalab]

We gave up. DVD burning is not ready for prime time, or so it seems to
us.

The included software that came with this drive was atrocious -- the
computer froze and hung and rebooted itself and added non-existent
drives and changed drive letters and did all kinds of horseshit. Then,
once she did get it installed, the interface was so convoluted and
counter-intuitive that the two $4.00 coasters she burned was enough to
convince her that this wasn't something she wanted to spend any time
with. Mind you, the wife is very proficient when it comes to
this kind of stuff (both video and audio) in a CD format; we had assumed
it would be an easy transition. Not the case. Might be something to
revisit on down the line, once the technology (the software, anyway) has
matured a bit. Right now, it's just too flaky and too cutting edge for
us semi-geeks.

Thanks to all who offered their advise and suggestions.

two years ago i bought the first hp driver for +r/+rw.
its sw is awful, but with nero i've been burning dvd+rw for nearly two years
with no special problems.
i mean, just for transferring data. sofar i didnt try vcd's and the like.
it's not free, but it deserves the money, considering the cost of media...
btw, for testing purposes rw are better than r, imho...

 

[Duddits]

We gave up. DVD burning is not ready for prime time, or so it seems to
us.

The right burner + the right disk = perfect DVD burns every time. I use a
Pioneer A106 and Ritek disks.

regards

Dud