I just bought a DVD burning drive. It came with nero 6.6. I have a serial number for it and everything. everytime i try to add a video file to burn it says "could not insert the file ...." now i don't understand this because it should burn an .avi file as far as i kno. so i went and downloaded an .avi converter thinking that maybe i had to convert it to .mpg. i did that, still says the same thing. then a little popup screen comes up telling me about patented software and i need to upgrade to the newest version of nero to use the mpeg4 encoding whatever whatever. this makes no sense to me because even before when i had a downloaded earlier version of nero, i could at least burn a vcd. now i cant even do that. im getting really frustrated so any1 who knows what i should do please let me know.
You have what is known as an OEM version of Nero 6 which comes with some burners as bundled software. As far as I'm concerned these are not much more than an advertsement for the full version because you cannot do much with them. For example, it will only work with the burner it came with and is missing the DVD plug in: http://nero.com/nero6/enu/DVD_Video_Plug_In.html I think I'd go for the full Nero 7 Ultra upgrade. You will at least get a discount when you enter your serial number: http://ww2.nero.com/enu/Upgrade_InfoPage.php Your only other option would be to use different programs. For copying and burning movies you can use DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter. I have them here: http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/dvdshrink32setup.zip http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/DVDdecrypter.zip Both these are free. You can also d/l them from Afterdawn. For AVI stuff you could use VSO's DivX to DVD converter, $29.99. http://www.vso-software.fr/download.htm
