@Jane1 - you can have more than 2 optical drives. Combo drives are great. Mine does many many 100s of rips (it has region-free firmware too) and all my CD's. Then all my DVD Burner does is burn DVD's. As it's not doing any ripping i (hopefully) don't wear it out too soon. As to copying the Video_TS folder, i pretty much stated that before. Copy it the the hard drive somewhere then you can burn that to a new DVD with whatever software you have
Thanks. Can you explain in simple words, what functions do you get out of the combo & it's brand.(play CD,DVD & burn CDs??) The DVD burner you only use to burn DVDs...yeah right? Take care.
Really. I was just using a bit of common/6th sense lol, since am new to these optical devices. So what brand would you recommend?
it's a long time since i bought mine so don't know what's out there. Mine is an LG drive, exact model is in my signature. However there are many other decent brands. Tell you what, here's what i would do if i wanted another drive (and i always do for a dvd-rom or combo drive). Go onto a website that does a few combo drives, read a couple reviews on the more well-known (and obviously reasonably priced) drives, then go here - http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php and see if there's region-free firmware for that drive. That way you don't have to worry about different regions of discs for watching or ripping from..
Very smart indeed. So LG is your combo & Sony DVD burner. You play the DVDs on the combo. Is the Sony DVD burner dual layer one? What changes can you suggest, as I have an Asus 16/48x quie track DVDROM & Asus CDRW 52/48/52x. Where can I attach a DVD burner or which device should I replace to add one?
The Sony is a dual layer (though i doubt i'll ever go dual media as i only ever do movie-only copies, but at least i got the option). Without knowing your motherboard or how many hard drives, the standard (until fairly recently) used to be 2 IDE channels which equates to 4 devices, ie you could have say 1 hard drive & 3 opticals, or whatever combination. These days there are motherboards with RAID cards, SATA channels blah blah blah. So it depends what setup you have i guess. I have a tiny case so my combo drive lives in a usb enclosure. - http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/creaky/P1010112.jpg in theory you could have capacity for one more drive, but all depends on your setup
Woh I'm really impressed by the way you have kept your pc setup, but some things I really can't tell what they are.(It would be nice if you label the machines etc for beginners like me) Ok I get it now, think so. 1.Does it make a difference in the pc's performance if an optical device is attached to the Primary Slave? 2. Can I attach the DVD burner to the Primary slave, since have attached DVDROM & CDRW on Secondary master & slave respectively? 3. Regarding media, does using RrW CDs or DVDs is better technically than just Rw ones, despite if one plans to use it once only. 4. What should one look for mostly apart from price & speed, while buying a DVD burner, Combo Drives, DVDROMS (Optical devices)? 5. Aren't there only 6 regions world over? My Asus DVDROM can have the max of 5 selected, so not bad. 6. What's the best software to convert the DAT movie file to another better or DVD format? Sorry about my silly questions, am pc dumb.
you're not pc dumb, you seem to have a good handle on stuff so far. D'ya mean my piccy, ie how everything's neat ?. if so it's cus i live afloat so have bugger all room i gotta digest your questions....
- depends what your're doing with pc i guess. i'm gonna take the easy option as i'm running out of steam again - try this - http://www.cdrinfo.com/Forum/tm.asp?m=106642 - see above - more expensive to use only RW's, depends what you want to do with either type i suppose and how many to use. - i would say Make of device, then do some reviews as most stuff in computers is rebadged by someone else - pretty much; first thing googled suggested - http://hometheaterinfo.com/dvd3.htm - where's Rotary when you need him, he's a font of file-conversion knowledge .. let me think.... a-ha this is almost it - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/197670 . Also i'm flagging here but you can try downloading gspot - it tells you allsorts about the codecs that a file needs or has. And you could search Rotary's posts or do a forum search for the missing bits of the DAT puzzle.. Hope that helps i'm gonna turn in and watch Angelina i mean Tomb Raider i think (sorry been going Angelina crazy here) - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/151705
hi can i just clear something up here! [bold]so you been trying to burn a dvd without a dvd burner?????????[/bold] a combo drive *isnt* a dvd burner! is CD/DVD reader and CDRW burner only! cant remember but divxtodvd may except the dat??? but if it doesnt use vcdeasy on mpeg tools to change the riff header to mpeg then load to mpeg encoder apps like divxtodvd... heres my setup on drives Primary eide-1 = Pioneer 106D (dvd film ripping / burning) Primary eide-2 = Lite-on 52/24/52 (for games coping / cdr burning) secondary eide-1 = Samsung CD/DVD 48x/16x reader (for copied game playing / ripping dvds) secondary eide-2 = 160gig HD sata-1 = 160gig HD sata-2 = 160gig HD both sata hd's set to mirror raid (only see 160gig from both for safty if a HD goes bang bye bye)
Hi there, I think either you are getting confused or my pc description knowledge ain't good enough & thus making you one. I meant that have an Asus 16/48x DVDROM drive.(16x DVD play, 48x CD play.) & a Asus CDR 52/48/52x...write, rewrite speeds, on secondary master & salve respectively. Never said that was using the Asus DVDROM or CDRW TO BURN THE DVD. Have been saying that am using Asus TO PLAY THE DVD. Take care.
Hi again, I plan buying this Sony DVD burner. http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INT...=cpu_Sony_PCAccessories_CD/DVDBurn_DVDBurners It burns DVDs & CDs.....so than won't need to install a combo. Plan to have a combination of Asus 16x DVDROM to play DVDs & CDs & use this burner for DVDs & CDs. Would like to listen to your technical views & comments. Take care.
oooh that's nice, i saw that going for £70 in my local PC World. (It's a rebadged LiteOn SOHW-1693S) (i have a slightly older version of that drive). However I keep looking at buying an NEC 3540 for all of £35 on the internet (it's OEM so you just get the bare drive). Anyway that's a nice drive you're looking at there, you will find Verbatim datalifeplus is an excellent choice of media to match that Sony
i sure do, however for DVDs i keep to 4x (experimented with 8x for a while but a couple discs skipped in one player so went back to 4x) And i use my combo drive for any cd burning, i usually stick to about 24x out of habit as it's very quick and i don't have audio cd's skip anywhere i use them
hi @ creaky that nec with the hacked firmware writes dvd+r as dvd-rom very nicely! with no intervention on your part... ;=]) edit - yes 4x dvdr and 24x cdr all the way......
Hello, Thanks for your input once again. What exactly is the difference between dvd+r as dvd-rom? What's so special technically about Verbatim datalifeplus ? Take care.
hi alot of dvd stand alone players hate +R discs! so the firmware will make the +r a -R sort of which is more compatible... i use RITEK GO5 dye 8x discs/media
