writing do the DVD Drive

[~~Alan~~]

With Windows XP, I am able to copy files to my CD Burner drive, click on
"Write these file to CD, and my files are written to the CD.

Now that I've obtained a DVD Burner, can I do the same with the DVD Burner?
If yes, will it recognize a dual layer disk vs a single layer. (Yes the
burner is dual layer capable.)

~alan

 

[BigJim]

most people use 3rd party software to write to dvd, something like Nero.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

With Windows XP, I am able to copy files to my CD Burner drive,
click on "Write these file to CD, and my files are written to the
CD.
Now that I've obtained a DVD Burner, can I do the same with the DVD
Burner? If yes, will it recognize a dual layer disk vs a single
layer. (Yes the burner is dual layer capable.)

No. You cannot "do the same" with the DVD burner - not from your
explanation of how you do it anyway.

Windows Xp does not natively support writing to DVDs. You need a third
party package.

 

[~~Alan~~]

Thank you. With the costs of Blank DVDs, just thought I'd ask first.

~alan

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

Thank you. With the costs of Blank DVDs, just thought I'd ask first.

~alan

No. You cannot "do the same" with the DVD burner - not from your
explanation of how you do it anyway.

Windows Xp does not natively support writing to DVDs. You need a third
party package.

Nero is the best program for writing to CDs & DVDs.
Regards Mike.

 

[Dave Cohen]

Thank you. With the costs of Blank DVDs, just thought I'd ask first.

~alan



Nero is the best program for writing to CDs & DVDs.
Regards Mike.

An opinion of course. Note: At today's prices, dual layer dvd burning
isn't cost effective. Many commercial dvd's use double layer for movies.
Dave Cohen

 

[~~Alan~~]

Actually, I prefer Roxio, just because I'm used to it. A former lawyer
prefers Word Perfect as his word processor, just because he's used to it.

As for DVD burning, I have an application that will take my movie files and
build the DVD file structure on the hard drive. I just want to copy it to
the DVD Media.
~alan

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[Brian A.]

You can however still write to CD's using the DVD drive.

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http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

Thank you. With the costs of Blank DVDs, just thought I'd ask first.

~alan

 

[Brian A.]

I don't believe you can just copy them and have the movie playable, I believe you
have to burn the contents of the Video_TS folder (.VOB, .IFO and .BUP files) to DVD
disk.

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Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[~~Alan~~]

It builds two directories, video_ts and audio_ts. The movie files go into
the video_ts folder and the audio_ts stays empty. I them copy these two
folders to the DVD.

 

[NoStop]

Thank you. With the costs of Blank DVDs, just thought I'd ask first.

~alan



Nero is the best program for writing to CDs & DVDs.
Regards Mike.

I have to disagree. K3B is much better than Nero.

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[Brian A.]

And you get a DVD that plays in standalone DVD players? Last time I tried that I
wound up with a coaster, of course that doesn't mean I did it right or had all the
files.

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Breaker]

Thank you. With the costs of Blank DVDs, just thought I'd ask first.

~alan



Nero is the best program for writing to CDs & DVDs.
Regards Mike.

I have to vehemently disagree here with Nero being the best.

I bought and installed Nero Ultra 7 on my system and have nothing but
problems with it. Half the time it just stops and errors out the
second you click the burn button. Other times it acts like it is
burning and burns a coaster.

I contacted Nero support and their first response was that it was my
DVD burner. Yeah right. Brand new DVD burner is incompatible with
your software. Next they had me try some driver cleanup utility they
have. Usually that will cause it to maybe work, maybe not. But I am
not going to run that freakin utility each time I want to burn a DVD.

I had gone by postings round here saying that Nero is the best when I
decided to get it. Now I am extremely unsatisfied with it.

After trying everything Nero said, and re-installing it several times
I finally just gave up on it.

Downloaded and installed Roxio Easy Media Creater 8

It has never once failed to burn a project sucessfully whether it be a
DVD, Data Backup, Image burn, Music CD, video CD etc. It just works
exactly like it is supposed to every time.

Now I realize that my experiences with Nero may not be the norm. But
I just wanted to put in my experience with it so all options can be
considered.

 

[Guest]

For straight DVD burning, I use the free software CDBurnerXP Pro available
here <http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php?latest> very successfully.
It does everything I need.