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What does Finalizing mean?

Discussion in 'DVDR' started by gwhzz35, Oct 9, 2006.

  1. gwhzz35

    gwhzz35 Member

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    After decrypting, then 'shrink'ing a DVD, what does finalizing mean?
    What else needs to be done?
     
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    Hi there,

    Let's see if I get this right :)

    When you are burning data to a media, you are making 1 session on the disk. After you are done burning your data, you need to:

    Close thie session, to be able to read it on PC drives, DVD players etc...

    You can close a session, but leave the disk open.
    This means you can add an other session later.

    With DVD players, you can only have 1 session, and the disk must be closed. Meaning you cannot write to the disk anymore, even if it's not full.
     
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    Understood..thank you, so what else do I need to do to 'close' the disk? After Shrink/Nero is done, I'm not really given an option to close or leave open a session. Please advise.

    thank you
     
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    Hi,

    Unless you create a MultiSession (CD-R) it should/will CLOSE THE DISK automaticly.

    Roxio let's you choose
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    Close Session, Leave Disk Open
    Close Session, Close Disk

    Nero I think will close the disk unless you create a multisession, it's been a while :)

    VSO CopyToDVD same thing, unless you make a MultiSession, it will close the disk.
     

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