Well, I’ve just bought and installed a Pioneer 106 DVD writer ( + and -) and it works fine on CD’s (winoncd). However, I bought it OEM and have no software for it, and no previous DVD writing stuff (I have windvd for viewing). Question is, do any of you have any reccomendations for software to install to start burning DVD’s? I have gigs of images to archive, and want to back up some films too (my daughters likely to scratch her collection when she starts loading them in you see).
Thanks for your help,
Mark
By: Chris G - 13th October 2003 at 07:38
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Patience Mark
You have to split your request two ways.
Burning which Nero would do but may cause you a few problems with the second factor authoring for which you need to decide how clever you want to be, ie Menus, sub menus, chapter inserts etc. Popular options are DVD Workshop/ Impression and some video editing now incorperate this in the overall rendering option.
Also be aware on cheap discs, the quality of the disc is far more important than with cd-r. If you plan to send dvd-r to others then go for quality Rytek or similar (and invest in a -RW for experiments).
I have mailed you details for software although your box was full the other day?
Chris
By: dhfan - 13th October 2003 at 00:46
Agreed, I’ve always received software with the OEM drives I get.
Can’t speak from experience, hearsay only, but I gather Nero isn’t as good at DVDs as it is at CDs.
That could be v5.5 as it’s a couple of months ago now so v6.0 may have resolved any problems.
By: RobAnt - 13th October 2003 at 00:28
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Nero 6 is probably what you want – reasonably priced and a cut down version would probably have been supplied with the non-OEM version.
However, in my experience, even OEM drives are usually supplied with a basic utility.
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October 13, 2003 at 12:13 am