When I sometimes play Mpg and Avi file format using Windows Media Player. It says- "Windows Media PLayer Encounted an unknown error" or use Nero Showtime to play. I get "Cannot play this media file classification cannot supply requested class, (0X8004011) What does this mean? How could I prevent...

This is not the CD-Recordable Frequently Asked Questions posting, but rather a pointer to it. I'm posting this because there may be propagation problems with the FAQ (it's rather large for a Usenet posting), and some sites have automatic filters that think it's spam. This is also going out to...

I found a deal at Sam's club for $18 for 50 Verbatim music cdr's with cases but I was not sure they're good for data too. Are music cdr's good for data too or just good for makin' music? Thanks

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My first question to this NG is, as a musician all I want from my Audio burning software is quality sound, I have got Nero and Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD, amongst others but the software I have been recommended for quality is Exact Audio Copy, is this true. I understand it uses a completely different...

Using a Samsung burner and Roxio Easy CD-DVD Creator 6 to make a VCD slideshow with an audio track. The slides work fine, with the exception of only being able to place a limited number of files on the disk. There is plenty of room left on the disk for additional files but Roxio won't put them...

I have a Sony digi camcorder and a Sony DVD player. Want to convert MPEGs from camcorder to VCD, because DVD player will not play CD R MPEGS. Have EZ Creator 5. Know that Ver 6 will convert, but have heard a lot of bad things about 6. Any suggestions? Should I dump EZ all together and go with...

I have one cdrw drive and a dvdrw/cdrw drive that windows all of a sudden is having problems with. I can not get either to work and have uninstalled and reinstalled the hardware drivers. It finds the hardware, but says it has a problem installing it. States that either my registry is corrupt or...

Rather worrying article. This has been around for some time, but has the existence of this problem been verified? http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040505/D82CIN9G0.html

Hi, I'd like to burn an *.avi file which is 1,060,000 Ko. Can I fit it on 2 CDs? Is there a special technique? Any help welcome. Thanks, Jean.

I had a 3-CD set that I ripped to WAV and converted from 44.1khz to 48khz. I'd like to find a way to put these onto DVD-R so that I can listen to all 3 CDs without switching discs. From what I've read, it seems possible to author this as DVD-Video, since they are 48khz. Does anybody know how I...

I've never had a problem burning cd's, but just recently every cd i burned gets ruined, and i need some help on how to fix this. Whenever i burn a cd now the last two tracks on the cd have a scratching/clicking/fuzz sound in the background throughout the whole song. Let's say i'm burning a CD with...

Is there any foreseeable problems installing a new x52 burner to a older system, P 233 running Win 98 SE with 64 mb ram. Will it still work ? Thanks Killie

I'm looking for an online seller that carries 16X to 24X CD-RW. Several places have 10X, but that is the highest I have found online. Thanks for any help. Paul

I tried to burn data on Verbatim DVD+R with Nero, but after buring Lead In space, I got error does burning has failed without explicitly presented reason. What could be the reason ? Below is a log from Nero, please explain me where can I find some clues ? TIA, Maciej

Just tried using a blank floppy, an MS-DOS boot disk from bootdisks.com and then modifying the files on the bootdisk with the contents of the ghost boot disk I have. It is still rebooting. __. Any help this time will be appreciated. Loopy Loopy wrote in...

Now that they are getting in the "affordable" range, I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. I currently have, and am very pleased with , a LiteOn 52X CDRW. Are the LiteOn DVD burners as good as their CD burners? If not, what is the general consensus of a good DVD burner these days? I...

I have some Ritek G04 DVD-R discs, which are supposed to be compatible with the NEC ND-1300A I have, but apparently they're not. Every time I try to burn them, I get "Power Calibration Error" That's all it says. I had 1.05 firmware, and that recognized the discs as 2x, but wouldn't burn because...

Sorry! The message I get from Nero is; "The CD is COPYRIGHTED"! Not- "writer protected"! I get this same message on ALL CDs that I tried to copy?! even prev. downloaded stuff I have done myself! Thanks BN

Other than buying PowerPoint 2002 (with their Producer plug-in), is there some program out there that will let me lay down an audio track, then use markers to changes slides at given points on the audio? (Example: 20 minutes of audio, changing slide on a given "beat" during the music).