Simple Burning Q

Reese

OK, I'm guessing that the Q is simple, and I'm just stooopid so here goes:

I bought myself a second hand dvd burner a few weeks back, and installed it with the help of some of the people on this board (thanks again!) so I ordered my blank DVDs like a good girl and waited patiently for them to come.
In this time, I've gotten a few movies in .avi form, and after doing a bit of research I figured out that I would have to convert the .avi to dvd format or something along those lines.

So I got Cucusoft converter, and I waited a horribly long amount of time for the file to convert and then tried to burn it as a Video DVD using Nero. About 1 minute in, the drive pops open and an error message comes up. I thought that it might have been a once off so I try again, but the same thing happens.

Could it be the DVDs themselves? (Datawrite, 4x -R ) or am I missing something?

Any help should be appreciated

stevenmu

Any chance of telling us the error message ? (make and model of the dvd burner might be usefull too)

Optikus

What was the error mesage... sorry but my psycic abillities are not the best today.

Reese

Pioneer A06

Actually I made a mistake in the intial post, I was a ickle confuzed! After converting the file, I tried burning it with Nero, but it didn't recongnise the file (either the .avi or the dvd converted one) so I was actually trying to burn it with Sonic RecordNow (came with the computer initially)

Currently trying to burn again (couldn't remember the exact error message) and is going ok now.

I'm gonna feel really stupid if it works correctly now

smileyrecords

OK 1stly wats the make/ model number of your DVD Writer drive?

then what make are the DVD blanks?

you see theres DVD+R and DVD-R

outhere and you can use DVD+R disks on DVD-R writer

u said you bought it second hand so thats whats probably hapening to you.

how much did u pay?

The Muppet

At a guess its ncompatible media but aas the other guys have said any messages displayed would help.

Reese

The Muppet wrote:

At a guess its ncompatible media but aas the other guys have said any messages displayed would help.

Well I planned on sacrificing another DVD in the name of getting the error message, but the damn thing worked this time :rolleyes:

One quick Q instead: The converter I'm using takes around 6 hours, which I think is insane. Anyone know of a better/quicker converter? (I'm using the Cucusoft Convert)

Thanks

Optikus

TBH.. it not the actually the encoding software that really makes the difference, it probably down to your processor.. you can get converter quicker with some apps, but with less quality and vice versa.

Krusty_Clown

Well, seeing as you have Nero, you could try their converter (Nero Vision Express 2), which may help, but as previously posted it's all down to processor speed..

BloodBath

Some programs will work faster.

What is your processor?


BloodBath

Reese

BloodBath wrote:

Some programs will work faster.

What is your processor?


BloodBath

Umm *cough* *runs off to check System info*

Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2660 Mhz


Thats what the System Info says anyhoo, so I'm gonna go with that

Optikus

BloodBath wrote:

Some programs will work faster.

What is your processor?


BloodBath

Some programs may encode a tiny miniscule bit faster at the same bit rate.. but really if you want it done quicker you will be getting less quality.. so unless you are mass producing DVDs constantly .. id go for a longer and better quality encoder.