Burning CD/DVD's

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:41 pm

This evening I was burning a few video CDs (not DVDs) for a class project, and I discovered that I have to restart my computer between burning each disc. If I don't, it tells me I'm inserting the wrong type of media or something like that. If I restart my computer though, and use the same disc that it didn't like, it'll accept it. The fact that I had to restart my computer between burns hadn't occurred to me until tonight. I thought I just had a lot of bad discs (which I'll have to go through now because they may be good). Has anyone else had this kind of problem? I don't know if it's a computer problem or a software problem, and if I knew what it was, I might be able to experiment and fix it.

Post by **Vincent** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:54 pm

The best burning software available for Windows is, without a doubt, Nero.

They have a trial version you can download. I would recommend you try to burn your CDs with it and see if you still need to reboot. If not, ditch your current software and buy a copy of Nero (assuming this isn't what you're currently using).

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:02 am

I don't have Nero. When my brother set up my computer he gave me Roxio. When I burn my video CDs or DVDs, everything I do goes through that program . . .Pinnacle Studio 8. Nothing comes up from Roxio when I burn my stuff through Pinnacle. I'm so lost when it comes to burning stuff, lol. I don't do it very often. I just tell my computer to burn and hope that it does . . .which it doesn't always.

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:20 pm

hmm.. never happened to me either. i use sonic. it always seems to work nicely for me. it came withmy new windows.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:08 pm

Roxio works fine or at least it always did for me before i got Nero OEM. The problem is just that your computer, for whatever reason just isnt recognizing the disc as being new. Have you tried closing the program and restarting it? I'm sure theres a fix for this...

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:52 pm

Space Nerd wrote:Have you tried closing the program and restarting it? I'm sure theres a fix for this...

If I remember right, closing it didn't do anything. I actually started to get a lot of error messages from the program. This would suggest that it's the program that's the problem . . .but it still doesn't like my CDs in other programs, which would suggest that it's not ONLY the program. I'm not sure what is to blame, lol. Like you said, I'm sure there's a fix, I just don't know what it is, lol.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:04 pm

I think its probably the program and you might be a little short on memory... I dunno how to fix it without being there lol.

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:05 am

I'm good on memory, I've got lots.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:36 pm

Out of curiosity how much is lots?

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 12:36 am

right now on my main drive I have about 2.6 GB, but I'll be cleaning that up soon, so there'll be more, on the drive I store all my captured video and stuff I have about 13GB

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:46 am

Ok thats storage but it helps to have lots of that too. Do you by chance know how much memory you have as in... RAM (it would be numbers like 128/256/512/)? The only reason i ask is that sometimes when you get really low on it programs refuse to function properly. Though i dont know if thats the problem. I guess the main thing is that you can find a way to make it work so thats good.

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:17 am

How would I find out how much memory I have?

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:12 pm

If you right click on My Computer and select properties it will be on that first screen under Computer and will say something like '512 MB of RAM'. I wouldnt stress over this because it may not even be a source of your problem. I just always look at the amount of memory people have when stuff starts freezing/refusing to close and whatnot.

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:52 pm

504MB

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:47 am

Uhhh... Thats kinda odd but nontheless you should be good on memory so its probably just a bug in the program. You could try reinstalling it and see if that helps.