DVD burner questions

milltown

Right. My Pioneer 106 is on it's way courtesy of Ebay so that gives me a few days to learn about what can be done before it arrives. Some of these may be silly questions so humour me.

1. Is either + or - more likely to play on the majority of DVD players?

2. Can I presume that DVD +/- RWs will play in DVD players too?

3. Where should I be buying my media? Elara have 25 Memorex discs for €29, which seems reasonable and they are local. It seems buying from the UK you need to be buying a sh1tload to absorb the shipping cost.

4. Does the software exist that will let me burn a number of Divx movies onto a DVD to play in a DVD player (not a divx player)? Is the DVD format limited to a certain amount of time per 4.7gb disc? I ask the second part because I have heard of Superbit versions of movies where the extras are ditched and the quality improved by upping the bitrate. So is the opposite possible?

5. Will Nero 6 Ultra fit most of my s/w needs or should I be looking for anything else? The drive I'm getting is OEM so no bundled s/w.

Thanks in advance.

Kevok

From my own experience I find that + tends to be slightly more compatible. Any disk I've burned on + media on which I've forced compatibility (basically writing a compatible bit string first on the disk) works on my xbox, standalone and anyone who I've given it to.

That said, many people swear by - and it all depends on you and what you're playing it on. Trial and error really.

That and you can check http://www.dvdrhelp.com to see what players are compatible with what media. Good luck anyway, the first few times you do it can be real headwreckers when it doesn't work. Just stick with it. There'e no surefire solution.

Nero 6 is grand it can force compatibility.

unkel

I find + to be way more compatible as well. Nothing but praise about Nero 6 and believe me, I have tried them all :eek:

By far the best for media is svp and yes, you'd better put in a big order to absorb the steep shipping charge

I've recently received a very large order from them, otherwise I'd share in the shipping costs

I'm sure you could make some kind of arrangement with someone here on boards. Fits right in with the community spirit I should hope

MR DAZ

I wouldnt recommend memorex media.....I bought 10 dvd +r disks...they all recorded fine...but when i tried to play any of them in my dvd player , they stick and atammer and stop playing.....



I know this is down to the media and not the player!!!! As i havent had much problems with any other dvd+ r media i 've used

calex71

nero is fine for burning purposes, but as for your question about divx dont let nero do any converting on them or any other files let it do what it does best - burning- for divx files ull need to convert them to mpeg files, some dvdplayers let u play mpeg in its raw state but many dont so theyll need to be authored as dvd files, there are many many guides on divx/xvid/avi to dvd guides on www.dvdrhelp.com as well as links to all the software youll need to do it and a very handy and responsive forum u can get help on if you get stuck

milltown

Thanks dudes. I can do a bit of reading up while I play the waiting game.

kaimera

I've found the the -R dvd disks I burn on meh laptop play on dvd player so far.

and I have nothing but praise for Nero6.
It's clearly the dogs bollocks of burning roms and a godsend when burning/encoding dvds.

get the mpeg2 encoder plugin for nero...slap some .avi, .mp, .mpeg iles together in vision express and then go to sleep.

in the morning you'll have dvd files which nero recode will happily burn to dvd or you

calex71

do u really like neros avi to mpeg encoding??? vision express does make very playable discs and makes f'in top menus with audio and background video, but the encoding leaves alot to be desired, id usually encode avi's to mpeg2 with 224kbps audio @48khz sample rate with tmpgec plus, and even though nero still does its transcoding thing (which is very irritating if u know 100% that ur video is standard complient!!!!!) the results are far better.

BigEejit

I dont have a Pioneer burner (I have a NEC) and I got my media from www.pricestorm.co.uk and they dont charge postage ... I got 25 4X Ritek DVD-R's for stg£16

BigEejit

I was just checking and the same disks from SVP are only stg£13, but they charge stg£7 for p&p .... that makes the pricestorm discs stg£4 cheaper
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D'oh ... they are out of stock at pricestorm ....
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