OT: Best DVD Burner SOFTWARE?

I've alway got the bundled Nero software. The early Nero (2004ish) was good, the later ones seemed bloated and slow. Now I usually just use the built in windows burner, just drag and drop. But that closes the session. I havent needed to add data to a disk but I'd probably go back to Nero if I did.

Cheers

I didn't even know that was built-in ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Check-out CDBurnerXP. Don't worry about the "XP" in the title; it works on 7 and (AFAIK) 8 as well. Nice app, very polished appearance, and it's free.

It does allow burning "open" sessions and importing previous sessions on a non-closed disk.

I mostly use Nero 7 which came bundled with a DVD drive. Because it costs money, I probably would not have bought it.

For free, I also use:

For illegal copying of copyrighted movies and such, I won't go there.

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I use the Nero 7 Ultra Edition (circa 2007), which includes Nero Burning ROM (one of the features typically left out of the bundled software). The Burning ROM is only needed for hardcore content creation (eg bootable "roll your own" ISO images).

AFAIK the bundled Nero can create run-of-the-mill audio CDs and movie DVDs. It clones CDs and DVDs. It also contains other functionality that is never used by me.

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Ah, but only in Win7 not XP. I don't recall if XP could do a DVD, maybe it can? Win7 can also write ISO images to a disk, which is nice.

Cheers

It's doing it right now... at least I think it's working... but did complain about "make compatible", so we'll... in a while, seems slow.

...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

All the movies I like are cheap. I haven't been to a theater since last summer... nothing but trash. ...Jim Thompson

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Worked just fine. "Closing" doesn't matter to me, I just use DVD's for archiving old projects. ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

ImgBurn

is freeware and commonly considered the program of choice for CD/DVD/BD burning and image mastering. It allows to create any type of disk (or image) with any standard types and combination of filesystems: ISO9660 (3 levels), Joliet (2 levels), UDF (6 versions), Unicode support, long file names (219 characters ISO9660 level X), different labels per filesystem, and bootable disc support (with various types of disc emulation). Audio CD is also supported. More or less everything you'll want to ask for when it comes to optical disk writing.

Microsoft also has a freely downloadable image mastering application named "oscdimg.exe" which prepares ".iso" images that are then written to disk with "cdburn.exe" or "dvdburn.exe" utilities, depending on type of disk. All

3 programs are command-line type and available in the MS download center ("oscdimg" as part of the "Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit", the other two as part of "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit"). They work on any type of Windows since XP and allow image mastering of various filesystems and disk types (except BD). Not as many as ImgBurn, but ISO9660, Joliet and the 3 most common versions of UDF (plus combinations of these filesystems) are supported. Microsoft's utilities were made primarily for installation CDs, so things like audio CD or video DVD are not supported.

Additionally, both programs allow file single-instance storage on CDs and DVDs. When the same file exists in multiple directories of the same disk, the (identical) file content is physically stored only once. This can save a lot of space if your disk contains several versions of some kind of library, which differ between each other only by a small number of files. Beware that, since in this case no physical copies are written, if the CD/DVD gets scratched in the wrong place, all the file references will point to the same (damaged) physical location. By default this option is turned off in both programs, it must be enabled explicitly if you need it.

Regards Dimitrij

My W2K, which I still use, can do that from the explorer.

Jamie

On XP I have used InfraRecorder

, which is free and GPL. I *might* have also used it on 7 but I don't remember. It can burn ready-made ISOs for both CD and DVD, or it can collect a bunch of files and directories and burn them to CD or DVD.

For your current installation - are you on XP? One thing I remember about (earlier?) XP is that if you wanted to use a program other than the built-in CD burning support, you sometimes had to turn off the built-in burning support. I can't remember whether this was just for convenience - so the built-in burning dialogs wouldn't pop up - or if there was actually a permissions problem with both pieces of software trying to use the optical drive. If this is the case, maybe some recent change has turned the built-in burning support back on, and you need to turn it off again.

Matt Roberds

Good info! Thanks, Dimitrij! ...Jim Thompson

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Another good point! Thanks! It was acting bizarrely. ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

The last movie I went to was 'Chicken Run'. The one before that was 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'. They are just too damned loud and I get a migraine, so I just don't go.

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I use K3B on Linux, very good, does everything from data file backups to sound and video disks. It is a standard utility you can load from the software repository. (Oh, if you use that OTHER OS, then it is probably something you have to pay for.)

Jon

On a sunny day (Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:57:20 -0700) it happened Jim Thompson wrote in :

This is what I do, in Linux, 25 GB for a bue ray, use 4700000000 bytes for a DVD:

Make an ext2 filesystem Method:

1) create a large file of the right size, here 25 GB: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000000000 count=25 > bluray.iso

2) create an ext2 (linux) filesystem on it, (or any otehr filesystem you like): mke2fs bluray.iso

3) mount this filesystem as a device: mount -o loop=/dev/loop0 bluray.iso /mnt/loop

4) copy all teh files yo uwant to sabve there: cp ... /mnt/loop/

# make sure you stay below about 22.3 GB, filesystems have some overhead, test with: du /mnt/loop

5) unmount hat created filesystem umount /dev/loop0

6) burn it with te hstandard growisfs growisofs -speed=4 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=-dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=bluray.iso

7) run a full byte by byte verify on the burned disk: dvdimagecmp -a /dev/dvd -b bluray.iso

Later, when you want to use the archived data, simpl yinser the disk, and type mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd

All your files are now accessible in /mnt/dvd/

There is a faster way, if it is full archive only, put all your files in one directory, make sure you stay below 4700000000 bytes for a DVD, then tar and compress the whole thing: tar -jcvf some_name.bz2 /directory_withfiles/ burn it: growisofs -speed=4 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=some_name.bz2

Then later to get the files back, make sure you have enough disk space, put disk in drive and type: tar -jxvf /dev/dvd All files will appear in current directory.

Thats all (typos reserved).

The rest is bullshit, yes those disks do not play in dvd players, but who cares, I stopped using mine long time ago, have a 1 TB disk plugged into the TV USB port. Optical _only_ for backup.

You can still make a nice DVD to give away anytime with some authoring program from the files, dvdwizard does it automatically in Linux. And no, MS widows do not read ext2 filesystem, or neither reiserfs, or ext4, or whatever,

There is the ("old") Nero 6 Ultra that is very capable, then there is the Nero 2014 which is a reasonably current "nice" version. Both are good for what you mention.

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It is a shame how once elegant software grows into opaque bloatware.

Call me paranoid if you like but I prefer my archives to be as generically readable as possible and that means closed and finalised so that no further changes can be made to the writeable media. YMMV

They should then read on most (I won't say all) devices since I have found certain brands to be very tetchy about whose media they will write and read reliably. DVDs being much more annoying than CDs.

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