Any good alternative to Nero Burning ROM ?

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penang

Hi everyone !

My old school's 100 birthday will be in next month. There would be a
big bash and we have already produced a documentary of our school, we
also would like to burn some 2000 DVDs to give 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 !
 
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Craig

Hi everyone !
Hi!

we also would like to burn some 2000 DVDs

we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running XP.

In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?
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I don't know how large Nero is (it's been years) and I've only burned
one-off images. I can recommend some pretty small freeware iso burners
though:

Isoburn <http://isoburn.sourceforge.net/>. Dead simple. Works as
advertised with 2 caveats: it requires .NET 2.0 and (more disconcerting
from a security standpoint) admin privileges.

ImgBurn <http://www.imgburn.com/>. Easy to get the basics going but
also has a fine granularity of control available for those who want to
drill down.
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.
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OK. Understood. I don't want to try to reopen a closed case here but,
make sure you've considered these advantages of "letting the pros" do it:

-time: really, you've /more important things to do/ for the 100th Bday
-money: after media costs & labeling, they'll still do it more cheaply
-quality: commercial burners burn better & labelers label prettier.

But, it's your party!

best,
-Craig
 
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MAMEngineer

LMO said:
Can CDBurnerXP Pro burn DL DVDs? The description doesn't mention it.
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# burn any Data on CD-R/CD-RW/DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM/BD/HD-DVD,
including *double layer* mediums

# burn mp3-CDs to store many audio files on one single disc

# create bootable discs

# verify written Data automatically after burning process

# use either the internal browser to add your files or the intuitive
Drop-Box to drag and drop files directly from any Windows Explorer window

# save your compilations for creation of backups

# burn on-the-fly and with buffer-underrun protections

# import previous (ISO 9660) sessions and edit existing file structure
on CD/DVD

# quick- and full-erase disc

# copy data discs (possible copy-protection is not bypassed)

# retrieve recorder and disc information
 
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Craig

Larry said:
... But it still can't burn a 4.33GB DVD image file created by Acronis
True Image. It is still limited to 4.22GB files. Other than that, I
agree, it's a great program.
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Yea;

That is a pretty major limitation. One of the dev team members has
posted that this will be corrected in the next release ... of course, no
date was given but ... keep an eye out if you like the project.

<http://www.cdburnerxp.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5225#p18916>

hth,
-Craig
 
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Larry Sabo

Craig said:
Yea;

That is a pretty major limitation. One of the dev team members has
posted that this will be corrected in the next release ... of course, no
date was given but ... keep an eye out if you like the project.

<http://www.cdburnerxp.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5225#p18916>

hth,
-Craig
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Thanks for the update, Craig. I had reported it some time ago on the
forum and I'm very pleased to learn that it will be fixed in the next
release.

Cheers,
Larry
 
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Malcolm Hoar

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

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Malcolm Hoar

[email protected] (Malcolm Hoar) said:
It causes my Vista Home Basic system to freeze. Even Task Manager
can't break free of it's grasp!
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Hmmm, interesting. I've been running it for a few months now
on two systems; one Win 2000 and the other XP Home. It's been
absolutely rock solid for me.

If task manager can't nudge it, you may have a dodgy driver
for your DVD burner. You might want to check with your burner
vendor for any updated drivers and/or firmware.

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Larry Sabo

Hmmm, interesting. I've been running it for a few months now
on two systems; one Win 2000 and the other XP Home. It's been
absolutely rock solid for me.

If task manager can't nudge it, you may have a dodgy driver
for your DVD burner. You might want to check with your burner
vendor for any updated drivers and/or firmware.
Click to expand...

Thanks for your suggestion. Just had Windows do an online search for
driver updates, and it says I that have the latest driver for my
burner ( a Philips DVD+-RW DVD8881).

None of my other burner programs has a problem with it, including
Roxio (cough), Deep Burner and CDBurnerXP. InfraRecorder is the *only*
application that locks up my system like that.

Cheers,
Larry
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