i had a bit of trouble with my p.c lost nero went looking for some free burning soft ware can any one recomend a good downloadable burning prog which burns a bit quicker than the couple of hours my nero used too take

marko

burning times are not just down to the prog.ram,media and your burner have an effect

what were you burning,media,burner etc?
you can pick up nero cheaply or freely

Why did Nero take hours? It must be other issues, like custard boy said

it was a .avi file on tesco 8x 4.7gb disks in my dual dvd writer which is also 8x

well that should take about 20-30minutes max on a slow machine.

what pc specs do you have?

also your paying way to much buying media there!

How big was the .avi file?

Shudders at Tesco DVDs......

Stuart DemonD said:

How big was the .avi file?

Shudders at Tesco DVDs......

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i only got them as they was in a damaged box 20 of the 100 was unuseable


the avi file is 821,630 kb

is there a quicker way too get my p.c specs other than open it up ??
i know i got couple of GB ram 200 GB hdd and about a pentium 4 processor with windows xp

pentium 4 with 2gb of ram should have done that disc in about 10 minutes!! its only 800mb.thats just over cd sized.
get nero 7 and try again.
when you burn a disc dont have loads of apps open

what dvd drive do you have?

custard said:

pentium 4 with 2gb of ram should have done that disc in about 10 minutes!! its only 800mb.thats just over cd sized.
get nero 7 and try again.
when you burn a disc dont have loads of apps open

what dvd drive do you have?

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its called dual .... i have a update page but cant get the update program too start www.drvupdate.com

i only had nero open when burning can i get nero 7 for free ??

you can download the demo for free from nero or the full version other ways

just tryed too update driver says i got the latest driver update so not too sure where too go from here

custard said:

you can download the demo for free from nero or the full version other ways

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can i burn say a film using the demo or is it one of them trials that let you burn away then stops saying buy me buy me if you want too go any further ?

no its a full version

think i got nero 7 on the way now leave p.c on over night too get it though '

i cant comment on illegal stuff go on the nero site and you cn ftp the full trial version from there much quicker.
how you get a full key is up to you :chin:

My advice is get rid of Nero. On both my computers I've had trouble with it.
If you are burning avi. files it might be that Nero is converting avi. files to dvd.
Have you tried "Convert X to DVD"? It converts most video files to DVD & then burns them to DVD. It costs about £15 but well worth it.

Yup thats a fair point he may have been using the creat video feature and converting the avo to vob's to allow it to be played in a normal dvd player. That would take a few hrs on an old pc, with old software and codecs.

Well, he should have been clearer as to what he wanted to do

I burn a lot of .avi files to DVD-Rs, as DATA disks - and use Nero - never have any issues whatsoever

yes those of us with proper hardware ot play avi just burn to data discs
i cant magically tell someones recoding
as stu says ive never had issues with nero

custard said:

yes those of us with proper hardware ot play avi just burn to data discs
i cant magically tell someones recoding
as stu says ive never had issues with nero

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Yup me too, thats why i bough an divx dvd player all those moons ago. For the amount of cash saved on other means its a wise investment. Also means 12episodes of your favourite prog can be recorded on 1 dvd.

But then somepeople... :bang: