Hello Everyone!!

Can someone please help me???

Everytime i try and burn a dvd which i have downloaded, either the programme that i am using to burn it to disc closes and does nothing or my computer shuts down completely no matter what dvd programme i use!!! It's not a virus cause i have only just re-installed XP onto my computer thinking thats what the problem was, but the same thing is still happening.

So can anyone please help me out there with this problem????

Cheers

dicko69

Did it occur to you that telling us more specific details might help. lol
Such as which burner program, what brand & model burner, what brand of disks (are they cd or dvd, are they dvd+/-, are they dvd R/RW), what types of video files (mpg, mpeg, avi, divx-avi, mov, wmv, rp, etc.)? What sizes are the video files? What speeds you're burning at? What steps you go thru in the process you're using? All these types of details will help someone to possibly find fault in your technique/set-up.

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okay then, i am using the most up to date Nero which i think is version 6.6, i have also tried using another programme and it does the same after about 1-2 minutes.

The movie type of all the ones i have downloaded are all avi and the videos are all in the region of 700mb.

The model of my burner is a Pioneer 109, the discs are Datawrite's 16x, -R, but the problem doesnt get as far as burning to be this problem.

The processes that i am using with nero is as follows:

1. Make your own DVD-Video
2. Add video files
3. Look and select the download in my shared folder(which at this point everthing looks okay)
4. Go with the template that is already set which is 'Island' on Nero
5. I then have a sneak preview of the download and again everything looks okay, so i continue.
6. Check the burn options i.e. The device where its getting burnt to, the record speed settings and the volume name.
7. The i click 'BURN' and away we go!!! But it all goes wrong about a minute later.

So i dont think i am doing anything wrong really, but hopefully someone out there can help me please and advise me where i am going wrong or even suggest another programme to do the burning with!!!!

Or are there some sort of decoding i need to do before burning????


Cheers

Dicko69

Hi

Before you can burn your movies they have to be changed to a ts file. You will need a program to transfer them from avi. mpg, mpeg, a good program for this is DivxtoDVD all you need to do is open the program then the movie file. After that choose a location to put the ts file. After it is converted to the ts file you will have no problems with burning it to a dvd with nero. I am new here only used limewire for 4 days had the same problem at first then started reading some other forums on how to do it. Only thing i do different is I run the ts file through dvd shrink then it automatically burns through nero.



good luck

Nero will do all the conversion itself. Are you using burning rom? I only have version 5 so I can't tell you the difference. Nero 7 is the most recent version. Have you checked for Nero updates?

BTW those are not the most advised disks for the pioneer 109. Check the very bottom of the following page to see tests on disks & best ones to use: http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/204 I use a 109 myself. I also did a firmware upgrade! Very wise thing to do. It improves its performance & adds extra abilities. http://wwwbsc.pioneer.co.jp/product-...v00001r_e.html I'm using Revision: 1.57 at moment. I'll see what reports there are about 1.58 before I upgrade again.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR