Friday, August 24, 2007

Burning the (DVD) Discs - Intro

I've had a computer for years and burning CD and DVD discs is pretty much a trivial, everyday task for me. I know how to burn a DVD - but it wasn't always like that. It started a long time ago - I can't really remember when - with sharing small games and pop-music of dubious quality. I had an old & quirky CD-ROM that looked like it was going to fall apart but worked surprisingly well (I think it's still somewhere in one of my desk drawers and it might even be in usable condition). Then I had two CD drives which was kind of cool and mostly useless at the same time :) ....

Erm, anyway. At the "good old days" (some 5 years ago that is) learning to burn CDs was a trial-and-error stuff for me. It can be similar with DVDs nowadays since it can be very hard to find both simple and effective instructions on how to burn DVD movies and other exciting multimedia stuff.

Therefore, I intend to post some useful tutorials to make someone's life a bit easier :)

8 comments:

Lily247 said...

hi Jay i just made a video using window movie maker but want to put it on a dvd ,but it seems i can't do it do you think you could explain to me what i do wrong?i tried burning it to a cd and it works but the cd dosen't play in my dvd player at home,,,,plz help you can e_mail me at lilsis-24@hotmail.com
thank you

ray said...

i wish other people would keep there replies so simple and easy ,instead of tryingto look like computer technicians. many thanks ray.

ray said...

many thanks to you for a ver well explained web page on burning video to dvd.i wish other people would keep it so simple instead of trying to look like computer technicians. regards ray.

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bonnie said...

hi jay,i have tried everything to burn a dvd video. i have nero 7 and did everything step by step and still nothing. at first it would go through the whole process and tell me that it completed sucessfully, but nothing on the disc. now it says "unable to prepare data for recording,prepare session failed. transcoading of videos failed. i have been trying to burn for a year now and nothing seems to work, i am so frustrated, would you please help... thank you...

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John Williams said...

You can try the free nice tool from Rocket Division Software called StarBurn. You can get it here: http://rocketdivision.com/download_starburn.html

It allows CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD recording. And there is even a portable version.