OK as of lately I have built a collection of movies on my hard drive and now that my movie selection happens to own over half of my drive it seems like its time to move them from the HD to a DVD, and this is where I am hitting a road block. I am currently using Nero 6 and my movies are mostly consisting of Bin/Cue files and I belive Xvid files. I have tried to burn them to DVD but with no success. Either recieving the No DVD, or a folder screen that shows none of the files. Is there any body that could help point me in the right direction. Would be very much abliged. Thanx
Hello. Are you looking to just save the files in the same format to play on your computer? If so they are simply burned as data files. If you want to play them on a standalone player and it doesn't play divX, they have to be made DVD compliant by conversion. To burn as a data DVD: Open Nero Express. At the top right, be sure your DVD burner is selected as the recorder. Select Data > Data Disk. Click the Add button. Locate the file/folder to be added to the DVD and click Add. Repeat this process until all files/folders to be included have been selected and added to the DVD and then click the Finished button. [You'll notice on the Disc Content window all the files you selected and added are listed. At the bottom is a size ruler showing the total size of the DVD's content. For a DVD5, this shouldn't go much past the 4000MB marker to be on the safe side.] When all is in order, click the Next button. If your burner is not preselected as the current recorder, select it now. Provide a volume label (disc name) and select the write speed from the menu. [Be sure you place a blank disk in the burner in order to get all the available write speeds in the menu] Click the Burn button. Be sure to use good quality media like Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim, and Made in Japan labeled Fuji and Sony disks. A good rule of thumb is to burn at one half or less the rated speed of the media. Also make sure you have a stable version of Nero 6. The most stable is version 6.6.0.18. If you don't have that version, run the Nero 6 Clean Tool to uninstall the current version: http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/us/Nero_6_CleanTool.html The download (2 packages) and install version 6.6.0.18 from here: Package 1: http://httpdl1.usw.nero.com/software/Nero6/Nero-6.6.0.18_no_yt.exe Package 2: http://httpdl1.usw.nero.com/software/Nero6/NVE-3.1.0.21_no_yt.exe Edit: typos
"Locate the file/folder to be added to the DVD and click Add." Are you refering the the folder as a whole, or bin and or cue file???
for your bin cue files click on your cue file to open with nero burning rom ,usually bin cue films are kvcd and you burn them to a cd heres a guide link /www.weethet.nl/english/cdrw_usingnero_bincue.php
Yes, if you just want to offload from the hard disk and store the files, bin and cue files are files like any other. If you want an entire folder of files added to the DVD, just select the folder and click Add. If you want to burn bin/cue files to be playable in a standalone player, that's a different matter. You [bold]don't[/bold] want a multisession disk because you want all the files included before burning. You want disk at once mode for the burn. If you say you want a multisession disk, the disk will not be finalized and may be unreadable. Multisessions are OK if you know what you're doing, but can be disasterous if you don't. I don't recommend using a multisession approach unless you're using RW type media.
Oh yes... I can copy a dvd with no problem. Well then my question is how do I encode them to make them work, or do I have to? Been doing some searching and there is much talk about encoding, is this the missing step, and is it time consuming?
The bin and cue files are usually for VCDs/kVCDs. In other words those files are burned to CDs and played in dvd players, etc. Some PC software players like VLC player will play them in their hard drive form. If you want AVI/divX files to be playable on DVD players as DVDs, they have to be made DVD compliant with a conversion program of some sort, unless you have a DVD player that'll play them in their native format. Most don't. If you're just storing them on disks to get them off your hard drive, you can leave them as they are and burn as data. I have no idea why you are getting the multisession prompt. Try this: Open Nero Burning ROM. The New Compilation window will appear. On the left side, make sure the DVD-ROM (ISO) icon is selected. Click the Multisession tab. Check the "No Multisession" radio button. Click the Nero Express button. Proceed as before.
Ok so in the end its just better to spread them across CDs than onto one DVD? One more question, should I allow overburn on the cd in order to get the whole file on one cd. Because I have been told that a 700mb cd should hold a 800mb video. Is this correct?
No. If you are just offloading the files from the HDD to free up space and have no plans to watch them on a DVD player, they get burned as data to a DVD. Otherwise you can watch them from the DVD on your PC the same way you do now when they are stored on your HDD. Or you can copy them back over to your HDD as needed. If you want to burn the bin files to a VCD-type CD so they are playable on DVD players, that's another issue. If you want to convert the AVI and divX files to be DVD compliant so they can be burned to a DVD and played on a DVD player, that again is another issue.
Ok then my next question, which software should I use to encode bin/cue files to be playable on a standalone dvd player?
I never did convert bin and cue files as I don't download movies but I would think that Nero Vision would be able to do the conversion....... am I right Laddyboy?
OK, damn I guess I will go buy some CDs to rip them to. Ok guys, whats the difference between cd-r and cd+r. And which brand of recordable CDs is the best buy for my dollar?!?
The bin files are ready to be burned to a CD. They just need to be burned. Nero and a host of other programs can do this as long as the files are for VCD or SVCD. I usually use ImgBurn and it's free. imgburn: http://www.imgburn.com AVIs and DivX files can be converted to mpegs and burned to CDs as VCDs or SVCDs. They can also be converted and made DVD compliant by a host of programs. The AVI/DivX to DVD programs that I know have free trials are the following: VSO's ConvertXtoDVD: http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/ DVD Copy 5 Platinum: http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/InterVideoDVDCopy_Profile.jsp TMPGEnc Xpress 4: http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/te4xp.html#trial DVD Santa: http://www.dvdsanta.com/ The Film Machine: http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/ NeroVision: http://ww2.nero.com/enu/index.html ConvertX and DVD Santa watermark their trial vrsion output.
