I've always used Nero, but have been having a few problems lately.
What burning software does everyone else use?
I downloaded a trial earlier in the year, which had an animated sheep eating popcorn while the discs were burning, but I can't remember what it was called. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
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Not much help to you, but I can recommend Toast for Mac-burning.
Also Mac The Ripper to rip files from DVDs to hard-drive and DVD2oneX to compress said files to fit onto one DVD-R if the original is a dual-layer disc. (Purely for backup purposes of course.)
Oh and MovieGate does a fairly decent job of encoding virtually any video file to a burnable DVD image.
But that's all Mac gubbins, not PC but there is a PC version of DVD2oneX, called (surprisingly enough) DVD2one.
Also Mac The Ripper to rip files from DVDs to hard-drive and DVD2oneX to compress said files to fit onto one DVD-R if the original is a dual-layer disc. (Purely for backup purposes of course.)
Oh and MovieGate does a fairly decent job of encoding virtually any video file to a burnable DVD image.
But that's all Mac gubbins, not PC but there is a PC version of DVD2oneX, called (surprisingly enough) DVD2one.
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I use Nero for everything.. burning, recoding etc.
What sort of problems have you been having as my advice would be to stick with Nero as I am not aware of any package being better. DVD Decrypter (the best DVD ripper) does have a burner included, but I've never had the need to use it.
If you have a bad install, Nero is available on your local friendly bit-torrent site (assuming of course you do own an original as software piracy is very very naughty)
What sort of problems have you been having as my advice would be to stick with Nero as I am not aware of any package being better. DVD Decrypter (the best DVD ripper) does have a burner included, but I've never had the need to use it.
If you have a bad install, Nero is available on your local friendly bit-torrent site (assuming of course you do own an original as software piracy is very very naughty)
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PMstreamline wrote: What sort of problems have you been having
If you have a bad install, Nero is available on your local friendly bit-torrent site (assuming of course you do own an original as software piracy is very very naughty)
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That'd be CloneDVD.Spiggy's hat wrote:I downloaded a trial earlier in the year, which had an animated sheep eating popcorn while the discs were burning, but I can't remember what it was called. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
I use Nero too, but burn all my data disks in UDF/ISO format as plain ISO gave me problems.
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I like CloneCD better, less nonsense about it, that's why I use it for copying cds too. And because Nero only allows me to use my dvd burner instead of my regular cd burner and only goes as low as 8x.hallucienate wrote:That'd be CloneDVD.Spiggy's hat wrote:I downloaded a trial earlier in the year, which had an animated sheep eating popcorn while the discs were burning, but I can't remember what it was called. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
I use Nero too, but burn all my data disks in UDF/ISO format as plain ISO gave me problems.
So CloneCD for copying, Nero-whatever-version for the rest
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Yup, CloneCD is excellent. I'm not convinced about CloneDVD though.Obviousman wrote:I like CloneCD better, less nonsense about it, that's why I use it for copying cds too. And because Nero only allows me to use my dvd burner instead of my regular cd burner and only goes as low as 8x.hallucienate wrote:That'd be CloneDVD.Spiggy's hat wrote:I downloaded a trial earlier in the year, which had an animated sheep eating popcorn while the discs were burning, but I can't remember what it was called. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
I use Nero too, but burn all my data disks in UDF/ISO format as plain ISO gave me problems.
So CloneCD for copying, Nero-whatever-version for the rest
Been using Nero for ... many many years now... For burning DVD .iso-files I use DVDDecrypter (faster, simpler and works like a charm). For backing up of DVDs I use DVD Shrink (which uses Nero-engine to burn, so Nero is needed there...)
There is also a completely free (swedish) burning SW called CDBurnerXP Pro http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ which apart from being free is pretty good. Awaiting next version, might cause a switch from Nero to it. Just downloaded Nero 7 though, but I think it's grown to be one big, ugly baby...
There is also a completely free (swedish) burning SW called CDBurnerXP Pro http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ which apart from being free is pretty good. Awaiting next version, might cause a switch from Nero to it. Just downloaded Nero 7 though, but I think it's grown to be one big, ugly baby...
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Many thanks for the advice folks.
I've downloaded Clone, & I may experiment with dvd+r instead of my usual dvd-r.
Fingers crossed.
I've downloaded Clone, & I may experiment with dvd+r instead of my usual dvd-r.
Fingers crossed.
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i've just used dvddecrypter for the first time and it was like a hot knife through butter! much more straightforward to rip with than nero which i agree seems to do everything cd related ok (though i use Windows media player for the slower speed) but is a bit messy and unclear with dvd's.
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