Shoutbox

OK feeling really n00bish now but i have a collection of files that i want to burn to dvd but windows doesn't recognise that there is a blank dvd in my drive

the files are avi's BUT I DON'T WANT TO BURN THEM AS A DVD MOVIE FOR DVD PLAYERS/TV USE etc

but yeah anyone know some free software or how to fix windows inbuilt feature?

EDIT incase some people are confused the inbuilt feature i'm talking about is right click->send to->Drive (:E)

Are you sure you have a DVD-burner?

And for burning software Nero is really good, it's not free... but it's worth it

yes i do have a DVD +/- RW Drive i've used it many times before hand

i'm 'buying' nero now

have you tried another dvd-r b/c the first one could of be defective.

Yeah everythings good and nero is working it now so meh

although not too happy about this

Complete file size : 4556 MB
Disc Size : 4483 MB and all the discs i have are like this

DVD's should be 4.7GB shouldn't they?

so now i'm RAR-ing them and hope that will cut it down enough

Anyway other than that I'm not bothered about anything else now

DVD-R creators are weird, believe me!

Normally, 1 GB = 1024 MB
But, DVD-R creators round it up to 1000 MB, what is very confusing!
So, the size isn't 4.7 GB but around 4.4 GB.

And I dont think DVD players knows what RAR is...

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Originally posted by Mattike
And I dont think DVD players knows what RAR is... 

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Originally posted by Fukafly
the files are avi's BUT I DON'T WANT TO BURN THEM AS A DVD MOVIE FOR DVD PLAYERS/TV USE etc

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i had this problem, it wouldnt recognise the disc was ther

it was because i have a +dvd-r drive and the discs were -DVD-r

merrr RARing it only got it down by 46MB

The message now is

Data to be written : 4507
Space on the Disc : 4482

it really is just taking the piece of cake.......

that was RAR on BEST compression anyone know how to get it down those last few MB's?

no i don't want to go RAR-ing every file then RAR them as a big file, and i don't think it would get it down enough anyway

you could try compressiong them in the 7z/7-zip format, it may make a big difference. Don't try compressing compressed files, contrary to popular belief if you zip a file enough times, you won't eventually get it to 1 byte

Nero also supports overburning, some people claim that they can get up to 50mb extra, but that would depend on the brand of DVD you are burning to and possibly the drive you have too.