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

[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.