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Best CD / DVD software that I've seen to date. DVD Cloner!
www.dvd-cloner.com/
The media has only a little to do with the result. The burner will be
responsible for 80% of your failures or 90% of the success.
Media will assist if you have a poor quality or substandard burner. Gold
discs will generally be better than silver.
"Kevin" wrote:
> Thanks, Rob! I have used TDK, Maxell and even Staples and Office Depot
> branded disks and they all worked fine. The disks are supposed to be
> manufactured to some kind of standard, but who knows. A friend of mine buys
> disks in bulk, lots of 10 packs of 100 disks each, and buys the cheapest he
> can find. I don't remember the brand, but they are Japanese, something like
> Taian or Tainan, something like that. He has negligible disk write failures
> with them. If in doubt, buy a major name brand like Maxell, Sony or TDK.
>
> "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:50EBDEEA-28C6-4D86-A7AD-012572004928@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Kevin, Excellent advice!! I went to the first site before, it's like
> > taking a college calculus course, it doesn't talk about video quality. The
> > other site looks great. My video quality dips just a tad after I burn. Are
> > there different CD quality types (I bought Maxell, I thought they were
> > reputable)? Thanks so much! Rob
> >
> > "Kevin" wrote:
> >
> > > Check out www.cdrfaq.com and possibly www.vcdhelp.com for good
> information.
> > > The cdrfaq site is huge! I printed out the FAQ and it was something
> like
> > > 180 pages!
> > >
> > > The whole encoding and re-encoding process is PFM (Pure F**king Magic)
> and
> > > trying to understand it is like trying to understand Quantum Physics.
> It
> > > exists, it's real and just try to deal with it as best you can. I once
> > > tried for three weeks to get about 2.5 GB of various .mpg, .mpeg, .avi
> and
> > > ..mov files recoded and encoded to burn to a VCD format disk and never
> did
> > > get it done. I emailed Ahead Software technical support and in a series
> of
> > > emails that involved running some utilities they sent me, the technician
> > > decided that there was absolutely no reason the software shouldn't work!
> In
> > > complete and utter frustration I uninstalled Nero and reinstalled it.
> > > Viola! The damn thing churned through those files like so much butter!
> Of
> > > course, it would take a couple of hours to encode one stinking file and
> ten
> > > minutes to encode another exactly the same size. It took me three solid
> > > days to complete.
> > >
> > > You will get some insight on burning music files on the cdrfaq site. I
> hope
> > > this helps. Good luck and have patience.
> > >
> > > "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:9BEA77EE-9503-473F-B766-A1906F781978@microsoft.com...
> > > > Some of my audio (mp3's) don't come out like the originals. Some have
> too
> > > > much bass, some have more hiss and some are quieter. I have XP SP2.
> Should
> > > I
> > > > be tweaking something? And when I start to build (compile) a list of
> some
> > > > mpeg files it will stop and give me an error message that says the
> file
> > > isn't
> > > > encoded correctly and to "re-encode" or "ignore and continue".
> > > >
> > > > "Kevin" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I use Nero 5.5 and it works fine. The video is the same quality as
> the
> > > > > original. When I burn music, it is indistinguishable from the
> original
> > > CD
> > > > > source I am copying. Always choose to encode video or music in the
> > > highest
> > > > > quality possible. This can result in huge file sizes, of course.
> > > > >
> > > > > "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news
E601044-F10B-4474-83EA-6EF8801852DA@microsoft.com...
> > > > > > I'm using Nero 5.5. I don't get the greatest quality video or
> audio
> > > from
> > > > > > this. Any software recommendations? I have Samsung Black 52X32X52
> > > CD-RW
> > > > > > Drive, Model SW-252FEN. Does the CD-RW drive type make a
> difference in
> > > > > > quality?
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