DVD Burning Problems?

[saltman]

no conversion is necessary. These are ready to be burned with your favorite DVD burner program such as Nero xpress or Prassi ONES, etc.

[terrapinstranger]

Just drag and drop?
I kept getting a message saying that I could not do it. Can I keep everything in one folder and drop the file into nero or record now or do I need to separate each file? Furtermore, when I am making the disk what do I select as the type of disk I am making? Again thanks!

[terrapinstranger]

BTW, nice mantra.

[saltman]

I think there is a tutorial for Nero somewhere on here. You need to use Nero Express... not Nero, Not Record now, Not Vision Express, etc..... You should be able to open just Nero Express. Then you click make DVD video. click add. browse to dvd that you are trying to burn. Then drag the entire video_ts folder on top of the video_ts folder on the left. Then click burn. It will be easy after you've done it once. Ignore and burn anyway if it says file allocation error.... that's a Nero bug. Good Luck!

[clomwac]

hey im on a mac and in the same boat any help would really be appreciated

[clomwac]

thank you so much

[terrapinstranger]

I am going to d/l ONES as suggested just to further my experience. For anyone who is using Nero, I need advice I make it thru the first phase of transcoding or something like that and then it says it failed and ask if i want a log. Of course i have no freakin idea wth the log is telling me. I just want to make a DVD !!<sobs> Guess i don;t know what the problem is. it never burns it just goes thru the first long phase of the process....

[terrapinstranger]

Now Itried using ones and I got the same thing except it hapend faster. Once i hit burn it ejects my disk and gives me an error msg.
err 28
err 02-30-11 CMD:53 vendor specific error triple.

[terrapinstranger]

So now something interesting is happening. I decided to see if i could just burn some photos to a disk on a CDRW and al went ok. Then I decided to make a back up of some mp3, shn's etc on a DVDR and it spit it out over and over no matter what progream i use.... Someone help I am so confused.

[U2Lynne]

Are you sure your burner will burn DVDRs? And, if so, does it burn both DVD-R and DVD+R or only one type (maybe you bought the wrong type).

[terrapinstranger]

How can i tell. i know it burns to DVD but i did not know that there were diffrent types. i bought dvd-r's. What is the diffrence?

[U2Lynne]

Well, it should tell you in your computer manual what type of DVDs it likes. My Mac will only burn to DVD-R, but it will read DVD-R and DVD+R. As for the difference, you can probably google it and find a technical paper about it.

[ohkeepa]

you can try just burning as a data DVD with two folders

the VIDEO_TS folder and the AUDIO_TS folder

the video folder should have all the files in it.. the audio folder will be empty. Even though it is empty, a lot of dvd players require that it is there

[terrapinstranger]

Thanks so much for the help. I took back the ones I had to the store and bought DVD+R's and got it working again! Thanks so much. Life is sweet again.

The software that came with my sony, Click to DVD, will not work with the file I downloaded. It gives me the error message, does nto support clips less than 1 second long.

Am I making a mistake or do I need to install better dvd burning software. IF new software is needed, any suggestions? The ones mentioned in the FAQ are not available online anymore.