Sonic Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 i dunno lol My brother bought a DVD burner for the computer yesterday. He tried to use Nero to make a DVD with an .mpg file and the burn failed the two times he tried. Is there a better program, do the files need to be converted, or are we doing it wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsurugi Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 You will have to explain a little better. There could be a lot of things that can go wrong. But what exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to burn a video file so you can view it on your home DVD player or just burning your files onto a DVD as data? One reason you could be burning bad discs is either a bad burner or a bad disc. Reliable brands are Lite-on and NEC, but others work as well. I'm not too sure about quality brand name DVD-Rs, but some have higher quality control than others. Anyway, let's assume you have a good working burner and discs to go with it. Are you burning at the specified speed of the disc? If have you a 8x disc and you're burning it at 16x, then no data actually gets imprinted on the disc or massive errors occur. One way or another, you're not going to get a working DVD. As with burning CDs, burning at slower speeds almost guarantees a good burn. I really don't have too much experience with making DVDs for DVD players. But I think that most video files have to be .avi format. It should be easy enough to find an app to convert. Also, they only accept DVD-Rs, not DVD+Rs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 I figured out what was going on. Combo of bad disks and write speed. Also, I downloaded WinAVI so I can make video DVDs and use Nero for data DVDs. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrion Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Defrag that mpeg before you try burning it. If your hard drive fails to keep up, it'll probably spit out a coaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted March 3, 2007 Author Share Posted March 3, 2007 Immah makin a Haruhi DVD. Haruhi 1-6 will just barely fit on 1 disc. The thing is that there are 7 episodes after that. Is there a way to have them all on 1 disk or should I just put them on 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsurugi Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 That's for yourself to decide. I would split it up more evenly though. That would seem more worth switching out the discs. One way or another is not better in any technical way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 I need a program that will make a movie DVD from AVIs with a menu. Nero, despite my best efforts, can't do jack shit and WinAVI won't put in menus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCrusher Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 I use nero 7 to make the DVD with menus or however, then encode it to the image recorder. Then later on I'll burn the image to a dvd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 I use nero 7 to make the DVD with menus or however, then encode it to the image recorder. Then later on I'll burn the image to a dvd. I made the NeroVisionDocument. Now what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCrusher Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 If you have nero 7, just set it to make a dvd, set up your menus and chapters, and when it asks you what drive to burn it to, select image recorder. Then name the file _____.nrg. Then you can burn it with nero later as a regular ISO image. If that doesn't work, maybe alcohol 120% burns .nrg files too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheThoughtfulOne Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Try using DVDit, it's a good and easy to use program with lost of options. Then you can either save it to and ISO and/or burn it in the program, or you can save it as ISO and use Alcohol 120% to burn the ISO (I'd take the Alcohol way, cause it's a REALLY nice program to have, especially if you download... >_> things.... like I do) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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