Questions tagged [dvd-burning]
Questions specific to writing to DVDs
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Free DVD Burning Options but for DVD Players not data
I used to use ConvertXtoDVD which was simple and awesome got the job done. But are there any good free options that allow you to burn a DVD video to a DVD that can be played in a player?
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How can I burn many movies to a video DVD?
I once bought a DVD containing four 90-minute-long movies. Now I'm trying to write such a DVD, but don't know how to do it.
I tried to use DVD-Flick, but it says the disc is 98% used for a single 90-...
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If a DVD burning gets canceled halfway through, can it still be burned later?
Is it still usable? This is a DVD+R if it matters.
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iDVD Burning Discs - Freezes & Ejects at last step
When I'm in iDVD and go to burn a disc it goes through all the steps and at the last step where it asks if you continue and burn it freezes and won't allow you to push the okay/yes button and ejects ...
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LG GH22NS50 Super Multi DVD Writer doesn't read DVD-R dvd's
I have my old data on backups now these are atleast 2-3 years old and we used to use DVD-R disks then, I burn using Nero and always verify my disks after burning.
Now I have a new LG GH22NS50 Super ...
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Where did the files I burned to a DVD-RW go?
I used the built-in file burning function in Windows 7 to burn a set of .rar archives to a DVD-RW. It finished burning and ejected the disc. I put it back in and the drive shows a disk with 305 MB of ...
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Check if my DVD media is DL or not
I got a DVD that I need to copy, problem is when I insert a blank DVD (4.7 GB) to begin the copying, it doesn't start because there's not enough space (about 30 megs missing)
I'm trying to understand ...
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Portable software for encoding and burning an AVI to DVD
I'm searching for a portable software that could handle the following
accept .avi as input file
encode it to .vob (Is that the right target format? these video_TS and audio_TS folders, you know)
burn ...
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Any professional software to help me burn my AVI movie to DVD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best free AVI to DVD converter
I want to burn a movie to a dvd but the problem is that this movie is in the .avi format. Is it possible to burn a .avi file to a dvd. Also tell ...
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Burn many .avi and .mpg files to a DVD?
I have a few hundred AVI and MPG files that need to be burned to a DVD. Each of these files is only 5 to 15 seconds or so, and all of them combined will easily fit on a DVD. I haven't managed to find ...
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HP Pavilion DV7 using Windows Vista will not recognize blank DVD
When inserting a blank DVD into the Optiarc BD ROM BC-5500 SATA drive on a HP Pavilion DV7-1273CL, using Windows Vista (64 bit), it will not recognize the disc.
It says drivers are up to date, but I ...
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Convert PAL to NTSC
I have some vacation DVDs which i would like to convert from PAL to NTSC.
How and/or what might be the easiest way to do this? I'm looking for a free solution.
I'm on Windows 7. I have access to ...
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How can I get my T60 to write a cd/dvd faster than 2xs?
XP SP3 IBM T60.
I have been informed that the dvd ram in my computer will write faster than 2xs only on one specific manufacturers media. All other media is restricted to 2xs. How can I change this?
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What's the point of CD drive offsets?
Why are there different offsets for CD Drives, what's does the read and write offsets mean? How can I know the offset for my CD/DVD writer?
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Burned a movie on DVD but only 10s of it is playable
I used Nero 10 on Win7 x64 to burn an .avi movie onto DVD-RW (burned it as data project). When I insert it into the dvd player, it starts playing but after 10s, it stops. I tried burning it again, but ...
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Disc Format Settings for Video DVDs
Does anyone know what disc settings are required for video DVDs?
There are plenty of programs that can simplify writing a video DVD (ie Book B, a disc playable on a traditional standalone DVD player) ...
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Difference between white and silver printable CD/DVD by Verbatim
Are the silver ones exclusively for thermal printing and the white ones for inkjet printing ?
Or is there a silver type for inkjet as well ?
Do you have photos of both type after printing ? I've never ...
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How to burn Mac OSX .iso to DL-DVD on Windows 7 PC?
I've made a backup ISO of my Mac OSX DVD. I'm trying to burn that same ISO back onto a Dual Layer DVD (the image size is just north of 7gb).
I created a DVD using Windows 7 image burning software, ...
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How to install CentOS 5.5?
This seems like a silly question, and I apologize if I'm overlooking something obvious. I can't figure out how to install CentOS 5.5 My experience in Linux thus far is mostly Debian-based distros (...
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Would 64-bit DVD burning software be much faster at transcoding files on a 64-bit machine?
I'm currently running Nero DVD buring software that I had on my old 32 bit machine. I wonder if it would make much of a difference in terms of speed if I upgraded this software to 64 bit?
update: I ...
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Writing content of two CDs into a DVD
I have a movie, which is split in twice, because the source was 2 cd's. This movie has also subtitles(2 str files), which are synchronised.
I wish to put this movie, on a dvd and I don't know which ...
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How to prevent DVD-R/W "endless reads" with AoA DVD Copy?
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate machine with a DVD-R/W installed. It been working quite reliably – except for now.
I'm in the process of copying a series of DVDs using a program called "AoA DVD Copy" ...
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Need to recover data from a poorly burnt 8.5GB dual-layer DVD - Cannot copy half the data from the disc
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I had a series of backup CDs that I had burnt some time ago. In order to consolidate the many discs I copied them all to my hard drive in separate folders, compressed them into .RARs (at ...
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DVD Writer doesn't read/write DVDs
I have a DVD reader/writer (about 2-3 years old) that used to read/write DVDs fine. Now when I put in a DVD it does nothing – and when I try to open it via My Computer it just freezes the window ...
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(How) can I split the Windows 8 Dev Preview + Dev Tools ISO in 2 DVD's?
I downloaded the W8DP with Developer tools, but it's 4.8 Gb, just to taunt me (as standard capacity DVD's are 4.7 Gb).
Is it possible to split it on 2 CD's? Or if not, how would I install it?
I ...
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Burning Snow Leopard 10.6 DMG always fails
I'm trying to burn my Snow Leopard 10.6, a 6.5GB dmg file but it always fails with Burn, I don't have toast so I would like to fine a free way, how can I do?
Can I use the disk utility directly?
I'm ...
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How are commercial DVD's burned? [closed]
I'm not talking about the DVD-R's here. When you buy retail software and DVD movies from the store for example, how is that DVD burned onto the original disc? What would I need if I want to burn those ...
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Authoring MP3 DVDs with Loop Playback option
Okay, so this is what I want to do...
I have a mp3 file of size 40MB. I want to burn it onto a DVD (4.5 GB size) with "loop playback" functionality. That is, I want this 40MB mp3 file to repeat ...
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DVD re-writable problem?
I copied 3.62 GB of data on to a re-writable DVD instead of erasing it. Now there is no data on the disc but it shows used space as 3.62 GB and 690 MB of free space. Now I am unable to erase my disc. ...
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DVD burning program for creating menus, etc for Windows 7?
What's a good DVD burning program that lets you create menus and stuff? I like the one that comes with Windows but it can't .mkv files.
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DVD Writer uneven burn
I have a DVD Writer Sony 870s. It was working alright earlier, Now (may be after new motherboard) its not writing DVDs correctly. The problem is that after I burn a DVD the DVD surface is not burned ...
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How do I get detailed dvd formatting info in OS X?
The GUI in OS X does not provide enough detail about my HFS+ formatted DVDs. I can't get pdisk -l to tell me anything useful.
I have two DVD backups made and formatted in "HFS+". I can only get one ...
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Burning videos to a DVD takes 20 to 25 minutes
I wish to take 800MB MP4 files and put them onto DVDs so the footage will be playable in a DVD player connected to a TV. All the burning software I have tried takes 20 to 25 minutes to render / burn.
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Burn CD to be used on Red Hat 5.3
I have never burned a DVD to be used on a Linux box before. If I am burning a CD using a Windows program (not built-in burning), is there anything special I need to be aware of to make sure the DVD ...
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Installing SATA dvd burner on machine with no spare SATA ports/connectors
I have the following motherboard
Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895A2NRF ...
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Mac application or method to arrange folders on archive DVDs with "best fit"
I'm archiving my home movies and have lots of folders (i.e. events) with between several hundred MB and a few GB of video files in each. Is there an application or method to arrange these folders ...
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Reproducing limited DVD copy protection
For those with experience in the file systems and intricacies of video DVDs I apologize for any ignorance on my part. I just encountered something that got me to thinking, as was hoping someone my be ...
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is a sata DVD burner really worth the extra cash [closed]
My computer has a old school PATA (ide) DVD burner that works fast and great, really it is the only thing I've not updated over the years. is there any advantage to upgrading to a Sata DVD drive.
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Can you detect the speed at which an optical disc was burned?
If you have some burned discs that don't work, you might want to find out at what speed they were burned to perhaps try and re-burn at a lower speed. So if you don't know the original burning speed, ...
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DVD drive is not able to detect or read blank dvd
I have a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632H DVD drive in my laptop. This drive is not able to detect or read blank dvd of Moser Baer but it can read blank dvd of Sony.
What is the problem ?
What is the ...
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Does burning an ISO file on a non-rewritable DVD make the DVD read-only?
If I burn an ISO file on a non-rewritable DVD, does the DVD become read-only?
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Burning DVDs to disk - what audio codec should I pick?
I finally got around to burning all the DVDs to files, so that I can get rid of all the plastic media once and for all. Most DVDs have several audio codecs available (2 channel stereo or 5.1 Dolby). ...
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DVD Burner becoming unresponsive?
My DVD burner is acting strange. From the moment it starts to burn, the drive is very loud. If I abort the job at say 10%, it will become unresponsive for 10-20 minutes. Once it finally comes back and ...
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Volume ID using mkisofs and cdrecord
I'm trying to specify the volume id of a cd/dvd when using mkisofs and cdrecord afterwards.
I figured out that there's an option -V volumeid of mkisofs. The manpage says that 32 characters can be ...
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Should I reinstall Nero after Hardware is changed?
My XP box has an old BenQ CD Writer(the drive itself is pretty capricious)
I recently purchased an ASUS DVD Writer for another box
To test the DVD functionality, I installed the DVD drivers etc on ...
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Why won't AVI2DVD load the audio stream?
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I have an .avi file. It is in a folder on my "C:" drive. There are no disallowed characters in either the folder or file name. It has audio as I have watched it on my computer. I want ...
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Job queueing in Toast Titanium 10?
I have a bunch of .MP4 video files I'm burning to DVD-Video using Toast Titanium 10 on my MacBook Pro. Right now, I'm doing them one at a time. Because my computer is several years old, encoding video ...
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machine to load into and take out from a DVD burner, burning many different ISO-images
Sometimes I want to burn between 50 and 100 different DVD-Rs (single-sided ones, 4.7 Gig capacity, DVD-R). The sorce is from ISO-images on my hard-disc, and for each DVD there is a different image.
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Vista: Making Mastered the default burning setting
I'm currently backing off a ton of data onto DVDs, but I've already lost one DVD because I forgot to select the hidden option of "Mastered" before I pressed "next". Is there a way to make this the ...
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When is it possible to use a DVD+/-R in instead of a CD-R?
When it comes to simple CD ISO images it is possible to burn them to a DVD+/-R, but what about the more general case? Is it possible to copy a CD with audio tracks to DVD+/-R? What about mixed mode ...
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