What are your recommendations? The AVI's are apple flavour. Want them in MPEG so I can burn them as VCDs.

I have a Pioneer DVR-105, win98se. The drive came with a crippled version of Roxio, with an offer for an upgrade. I connected to upgrad as per link, and was informed I had no choice but VDCreator 6, with Drag-to-disc. I have updated to the latest Pioneer firmware This is the 8th system I on...

Has anyone checked out the new burners that will burn a label on your cds. it is done by laser etching.newegg has a benq brand on sell for $84.00 after rebate maybe it would be cheaper to burn the label instead of using a printer.I have the epson R200 that I use for printing.anyone have a comment...

I've been using Exact Audio Copy (Version 0.95) exclusively for ripping CD's to the hard-drive of my PC for a couple years or so now without any significant problems - until yesterday. Yesterday I began ripping a CD-R to my PC's hard-drive as usual, then left it unattended for a few minutes. Upon...

Hi, Which one of these three will you guys recommend. I already have MovieFactory to handle DVD creation. What I need is a solid CD/DVD burning software as well as a solid software to backup/restore WinXP Pro system. Another thing that I prefer is to successfully create bootable CD (eg Win XP with...

Hi. If I choose a file or files on my HDD, and make an audio CD, I am I believe burning CDA files onto my CD. So, a CD with CDA files is an audio CD. Correct? But, what if I want to choose to burn an MP3 file or files onto my CD, what kind of CD am I making then? And, with NERO 5, how do I do...

Is it possible to substitute a Desktop CD-ROM drive (HP Pavilion, ~3 GB) for my not-working laptop CD_ROM drive (slimline; Compaq Armada; ~1998)? -- Learn

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article 1114969975.559b0f5f108d705fdab3e82f7b43bc9d@bubbanews, W. Erickson wrote: do any of the modern writers support 1-4x CDRW? I have a spindle of 4x CD-RWs (picked up 100 of 'em dirt-cheap at OfficeMax a while back)...

Mike, do you have a good link that explains all the virtues, etc. of the various DVD terms? So far I've found that DVD-RW doesn't need to be formatted before writing. I use DVD+R for my monthly system backups. I'm using HotBurnPro, both for software and their burner/reader. The unit can deal with...

Hi! I need to identify a Disc by any data. The important thing is that it should go fast. So as different types of disys are to be handled differently I need something that is easy and reliable. For CD-ROM and DVD-ROM I found no fast way of identifying them. May be I build a checksum over the...

I've tried Google without much luck. Does anyone still make SCSI DVD-RAM drives? I don't mind caddy, tray or slot-load. Failing that, are there any discontinued models that people could recommend? Any brands to avoid? - Andy Ball

Does Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (WinXP) do lossless rotation? Brian

Subj: hp dvd writer 640b burn-proof kicks in at every speed This is a new HP Pavillion machine. The DVD/CD burner was working fine. I inserted a CDRW disc after already buning one in Nero and a combination of bad things happened. The AutoStart kicked in. And, it didn't like the CDRW disc I put...

I know this is slightly off topic, but thought someone my be able to shed some light for me. I got a new Pioneer DV-R 109 dual layer yesterday (for my b/day) and installed it, in place of my old TEAC CD-R, alongside my Pioneer DV-R 107D. I installed the 109 as the slave and the old 107 as...

I just burned 2 .iso disc images of a movie onto 2 vcd's with Nero to watch on my Stand Alone dvd player and on both discs , part 1 and part 2 the last 5 mins of each disc is all pixelated and basically unwatchable. I'm not using the best media in the World- pretty cheapo discs , but I've had...

Can anyone please direct to the NEC site that deals with firmware.I tried all the main sites and ended up going round in circles. TIA.

Hello - new to the site (sorry if post is in the wrong place) A wedding in India was filmed and recorded onto a datawrite 3v dvd-r disc. The disc will play (without complications) in several of the computer dvd drives that I've tried, but will not play on a home dvd player (several tried). When...

It seems like my 1-1/2 year old Lite-On LTR-52327S has a firmware problem. I use Click'N Burn to record both music and data CDs. OS is Windoze 98SE. Lite-On firmware was "QS06", then upgraded to "QS0E". Until recently, I could select the desired writing speed within CNB. I believe that the...

Turn off the XP burning service and stick with Nero. The XP service is known to cause conflicts with other programs and burning in general. You will find it in "services" in admin tools. "vg403mkd8" wrote in message ... i just...

NOTE: Followup-To set to plusnet.tech.hardware Hi all, and hi Fran waves. It's been a long time since I had a look in here at f.h.m. I see most of the old faces are still present and correct. The last job was a real bitch and so time consuming. The next one is going to keep me busy too methinks....