I am having problems getting DVD-R's to burn on my PC. I am using 4X Piodata DVD-R's and the software I have tried is Shrink, Nero Express, Ulead Movie Factory, DVD X Copy Gold & Cheetah Burn. I am having difficulty burning data disks w/ Nero Express & Cheetah Burn (it is always failing at the very end either w/ verifying the data or finalizing the disk). When I try to read the disks, the program (windows explorer or media player) w/ become very unstable (not respond). When trying to do a 1:1 copy w/ DVD X Copy Xpress, for Step 2 the Start button will not turn green once I insert blank media. When I use Shrink and then Nero Express to burn, I get an error for the verification process at the very end. The supplied Ulead software is extremely unstable and does not seem to work for anything. I am mainly interested in data DVD's and 1:1 copy for DVD's.
System:
Windows XP Home Edition
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU
512MB Crucial DDR PC2700
Pioneer A06 Dual (+/-) Drive
GeForce4 AGP4X 64MB DDR
IBM 60GB 7200RPM HD
what dvd u trying to burn, i dunno but poidata sounds like crappy media and remember that you can only burn 4.38 GB on the disk not 4.7 GB. try sony, tkd
I've also tried w/ Beyond Micro 4X DVD-R's w/ same problems. I have tried to burn w/ only 4.2GB of data b/c I thought that 4.3GB was too close and it was causing problems w/ finalizing, but that didn't change anything. I am just trying to find some stable software for burning data disks. I probably need to get Nero 6, b/c I am having many problems w/ all of the other programs. Shrink is the only program that I can get to work, but I wish that I could use that to burn DVD's as well.
Do you think that the media is causing all of the problems rather than the software? It's actually PIODATA and I have also tried the Beyond Micro Data, does anyone know a good generic 4X DVD-R that works good? Also is there a program around to copy a copy of a DVD?
Oriphus (or anyone else that has used many programs and would like to make a suggestion), what programs do you regularly use for burning data DVD's and for burning DVD movies once they are ripped? I may end up just burning data disks on CD-R's to save frustration and DVD-R's.
sorry i have never heard of traxdata but i have had bad experiences in the past w/ burning coasters on generics, waisting time and money. Gimme a link for traxdata and i'll look into it. But i have noticed that u live over by the uk and i live in america, i buy mostly all of my dvds from Newegg.com.
also use Nero for on-the-fly data copying as long as it is not encoded. But for example ps2 games would be encoded in that case use dvd-decrypter in .iso mode, read to your HDD then write onto a disk.
to write video just use Nero in dvd- other formats - video
O yah oriphus or anyone from around the uk have any of you guys heard of a band called the streets i hear they are popular.
