Archive for December, 2007
having trouble burning dvd with nero 8 to a new external dvd burner?
I’m having trouble burning dvd with nero 8 to a new external dvd disk drive burner—All windows media works with the new dvd burner but when I click burn with nero 8 it does’nt even find the new burner it only finds the computers disk drives– I already made the new dvd disk drive the computers recording default burner. Can you explain how to fix this problem or is there a way to make the external the primary drive for the whole computer?
There are a couple of things you can try:
Right-click My Computer>Right-Click on the drive, go to Properties, then Recording Tab & check the "Enable CD Recording On This Drive" box. Click Apply & OK.
Right-click My Computer>Properties>Hardware>Device Manager
Go IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, select your burner, right click, select Properties/Advanced & make sure the Transfer Mode is DMA – not P10.
Try Nero’s InfoTool – under Tools in StartSmart. See if it recognizes your external drive.
Hope you get it working.
can I burn a movie on a dvd burner when it is being played on a ps3?
I have got connected to my flat-screen panasonic television,a panasonic dvd writer and a ps3,when playing a movie on the ps3,can I burn it at the same time on the dvd burner?
That’s basically what dvd recorders were made for, right?
but not via HDMI. HDCP encryption would block you, just like the old Macrovision on VCR’s.
You would have to use either composite or component cables. Component would be better because quality would seriously suffer. Both are analog outputs, so you would be using the DVD recorder to re-digitize an analog signal. Better to have it be a high-resolution signal then.
It’s possible that there’s some copy protection that could block you, even if you use composite.
Another problem you might have is that consumer dvd recorders don’t really compress the video. And recordable dvd’s can’t fit more than 60 to 80 minutes of uncompressed video. Commercial dvd’s that you rent are 9gb, whereas recordables are 4.7gb. And guess why they made it that way?
If your recorder is good enough that you can pause the movie when the first disc ends, then finish the recording on another disc, it might be worth it. It won’t give a great quality recording but it might be worth it.