DVD/CD Suite

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I'm looking for a DVD/CD Burning suite that can do most things...copy CD to
CD either CD or DVD copy from DVD image files on hard drive also to be able
to write them to hard drive ...can I get all this in one program or are
there several that I need ?

Thanks to everyone in advance

Stuart
 
Stuart said:
I'm looking for a DVD/CD Burning suite that can do most things...copy CD to
CD either CD or DVD copy from DVD image files on hard drive also to be able
to write them to hard drive ...can I get all this in one program or are
there several that I need ?

Thanks to everyone in advance

Stuart
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=== the new version of " CDburnerXP pro3 " is quite good , and free .......
you can get it from .. http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ , or you could try
"DeepBurner " , but I don't think it writes to DVD+RW yet ===========
 
=== the new version of " CDburnerXP pro3 " is quite good , and free .......
you can get it from .. http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ , or you could try
"DeepBurner " , but I don't think it writes to DVD+RW yet ===========
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Couldn't find version 3 there, only an announcement. 2.29 seems to be
the latest still.

Wonder if anyone would comment on its compatibility with Win98SE. The
author hints at problems, but no details.

Have just installed an LG 4081B super multi DVD+/-RW, DVD-RAM drive,
only to find that the bundled software, BHA Gold5 (upgraded to 5.5)
doesn't recognize the drive, although it's listed as compatible. Very
frustrating, having an 8X DVD writer and not even being able to burn a
CD-R. Strangely, Nero Express recognizes the drive as a CDR/RW burner,
even though it doesn't list it as supported.
 
Couldn't find version 3 there, only an announcement. 2.29 seems to be
the latest still.
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Oops! My mistake. Found version 3 after all. Got sidelined by the home
site's recommendation of a new mirror (which only has 2.2.9)

Happily, my LG4081B is listed as "tested".
 
Have just installed an LG 4081B super multi DVD+/-RW, DVD-RAM drive,
only to find that the bundled software, BHA Gold5 (upgraded to 5.5)
doesn't recognize the drive, although it's listed as compatible. Very
frustrating, having an 8X DVD writer and not even being able to burn a
CD-R. Strangely, Nero Express recognizes the drive as a CDR/RW burner,
even though it doesn't list it as supported.
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Just for an update Achim.... as I too bought that drive. It only burns at 8x
with DVD+R. All the rest it burns at 4x or slower :o)

ozzy



http://www.lg.ca/downloads/specs/computer/GSA-4081B.pdf

Transfer Rates:
Write DVD-R: 2x, 4x
DVD-RW: 2x
DVD-RAM: 2x, 3x
DVD+R: 2.4x, 4x, 8x <------------
DVD+RW: 2.4x, 4x
CD-R: 4x, 8x, 16x, 24x
CD-RW: 4x, 8x, 10x, 16x
 
Just for an update Achim.... as I too bought that drive. It only burns at 8x
with DVD+R. All the rest it burns at 4x or slower :o)

ozzy



http://www.lg.ca/downloads/specs/computer/GSA-4081B.pdf

Transfer Rates:
Write DVD-R: 2x, 4x
DVD-RW: 2x
DVD-RAM: 2x, 3x
DVD+R: 2.4x, 4x, 8x <------------
DVD+RW: 2.4x, 4x
CD-R: 4x, 8x, 16x, 24x
CD-RW: 4x, 8x, 10x, 16x
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Thanks for the heads up ozzy. Too bad I didn't know that earlier, as I
just bought a spindle of 8X 50 DVD-Rs!


I'm glad to report that BHA tech support sent me a detailed plan of
attack, some of which I implemented (I balked at rearranging my drives
on the IDE channels, flashing my MB BIOS, and monkeying with the
system's DMA settings).

I did appreciate their sending me Adaptec's more recent aspi drivers
as an e-mail attachment, and I followed their advice to update the
aspi drivers, and also to update B's Clip5. Strangely, nothing
happened right after all this upgrading and rebooting, until the
second reboot (I think). In fact, I had just removed CDburnerXP, and
was about to remove the BHA software too, when I decided to reinstall
Nero Express 5.5.9 another time, to see if it really would burn CD-RWs
on the LG drive. I'd just finished installing Nero, and the system
reboooted without allowing my uninstaller to do it's thing, and when
it came back up, there was B's Clip without its exclamation mark.

When I popped a DVD+RW into the tray, B's Clip popped up and offered
to format the drive. And sure enough, BHA Gold5.5 now recognized the
drive too, and allowed me to copy a test file onto it.

And all this despite BHA's stern warnings that their software wouldn't
work if there were any other burner programs installed.

Much as I'd like to have a faster burner, I'm glad the damn thing
works at all. Maybe I was too quick to delete CDBurnerXP, and it would
work now too. I can only assume it was the ASPI driver update that
made things work.

OTHOH, how come Nero Express was able to detect and recognize the
drive, if only as a CD-R/RW burner, with the old '99 ASPI drivers?
 
tried that URL and got a blank page. Then tried to back up a folder,
and got a "you are not authorized" message. Then I tried searching on
GSA-4081B.pdf on the site, and got no hits.

could you e-mail me a copy of the pdf file?

TIA
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Achim, you have mail :)

ozzy
 
I'm looking for a DVD/CD Burning suite that can do most things...copy CD to
CD either CD or DVD copy from DVD image files on hard drive also to be able
to write them to hard drive ...can I get all this in one program or are
there several that I need ?
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Used to be free ( sony cd extreme) now marketed as sonic dvd

The key here is the prassi engine which, the lat time I looked, and I
looked hard, was the ony one that could sucessfully burn mmy 2-3GB
mpeg files onto dvds as data files, and still play correctly on my
mpeg compliant dvd player

The others choked at the 1gb barrier. They did not tell you, you just
could not find the data after 1gb, including nero
 
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