My computer either hates me, or I fail at life

[beandelphiki]

Okay, guys:

How the HELL do you get avi. files OFF your computer and onto a disc?

I don't need it to be a playable video disc. (Unless there's no other way to do it.) I just want to back some TV eps onto disc so I can delete them off our computer, and I'd be fine with a data disc as long as I could later open the episodes on my computer.

But everything I've tried with Nero Express doesn't work, and I don't understand why. Is this not possible, or what?

HELP! Please! Anybody!

Comments

[teyla]

You need to burn a normal file disc. I don't know how they call it in the English version of Nero Express, but it's the one you'd use to back-up stuff like MS Word files (or any file, really). The direct translation of the German name for this sort of disc in Nero Express is, as I said, 'file disc'.

Oh, and you need to make sure you're telling Nero to burn a CD. If you've got it switched to DVD, it won't work.

Hope this was helpful.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I've tried "data disc" (pretty sure that's the same thing as "file disc") and that didn't work. Just get a "burn failed" message. I also tried Video CD format, and after it took 2 hours and nearly all my extra available disc space to encode it...burn failed. I seriously have no idea. Unless I'm using the wrong sort of disc? *shrugs* I've got CD-RWs at the moment.

Wondering if there's some update or something I ought to download.

[teyla]

Yeah, data disc, that'd be the one.

Huh. No idea what's wrong, then. You could try it with different discs - RWs, rewritable discs, sometimes don't work with all settings. Best try normal CD-Rs.

Shouldn't be an issue with the software, though. Burning data discs is pretty much the most basic thing a burn program should be able to do in any of its released versions.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Ah! I'll try CD-Rs then, thanks.

[lurker.livejournal.com]

Are you using Windows XP or Vista?

If so, just literally drag the files onto the CD drive, it'll start up the burning wizard.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

XP Pro.

And I'll try that, thanks.

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

**> Ok... select "make data disc," like you did.
**> click on "add" like you probably did.
**> find the .avi file and double click on it, which you prolly did.

check back at Nero Express. The bar graph on the bottom should show you how much space you have available, and how much your one avi has used. There are only about 700MB on each CDR/CDRW. One TV avi is usually about 352MB, so you may only be able to get one on each disc, unless you use a compression program, which is easy but increases the level of difficulty by about 4.

If you're using an HDvideo avi, which is larger than 700MB you are going to have a lot of difficulty. Check the length on the HD.

Click on next, assuming that your "total space used" at the bottom is less than the red line at just over 700MB on the graph.

Check the "current recorder" at the top of the next screen, and make sure it's set to your dvdr drive (or cdr drive) whichever can burn. Not a dvd drive or cd drive, though I can't imagine you'd have an old cd drive that didn't burn.

Make sure there's a blank disc in that drive, and click next. It should work.

It doesn't matter if you "allow files to be added later," or if you "verify data after burning." Under the "more" menu, it doesn't really matter if you choose DAO (disk at once) or TAO, track at once. Maximum writing speed should be in line with the media being used... that is if you have 40X cdr disks, you shouldn't set it to 48x or 52x, although it would probably work anyway.

Make sure under the "more" menu, that you've selected "burn," and not "simulation."

If all else fails, you could try putting a blank dvdr in and configure the nero express to burn to dvd. that should hold a lot more than one episode, like up to 4.7GB of data, or approx 14 352MB shows, 7 700MB shows.

Also, it shouldn't take very long.

There's no way the avi file should be copyrighted, so there's no reason that Nero should refuse to burn it. The only thing I can think of that would cause a burn error is if the blank disk doesn't match what Nero is looking for, i.e. it's looking for a blank dvd and you've put in a blank CDr, or the disk is not blank. that happens sometimes. Other than that, if you get to the point where the "burn" button is lit up, then all systems should be go.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Make sure there's a blank disc in that drive, and click next. It should work.

Did all that, and yeah...didn't work. *lifts hands* It's definitely not a space issue, I was only trying to burn one ep.

I'll try the DVDR thing if nothing else works though, thank you.

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

did you check the file size in windows explorer to see if it's over around 720MB? Just curious, because if I remember correctly, I was saying before that eps should run about 350MB and you told me that the ones you were dl'ing were over 700. for some reason I can't remember the capacity of a cdr, but it's just over 700. I guess it's all dvdr these days for me.

K i looked it up. regular cdrs hold 650mb. In nero, if you go into the "more" menu, you can select "overburn," which will allow the burner to burn slightly more than the advertised space. If you go too much over, though, there are rumors that it will hurt the drive, although I've never encountered that problem.

Normal capacity for a 650MB cdr is about 700MB, though, so if your file is over 700 it won't fit.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

People can title torrents odd things. I wouldn't download stuff if I didn't know what size it was (and therefore, what it's likely to be).

One ep fits.