Yep - another burn issue

[thumper]

Similar problems to previous posts, but am not quite making sense of the answers - sorry.

 

I am capturing data from old VHS tapes that I want to output to DVD. As straight mpg files - no problem. The problem I have is that as soon as I edit them in Videowave (take out scenes or combine two files of around 1.2gb to make one whole movie) it won't burn to dvd or hard drive, it hangs at 50%. Also I read that you have recommended burning from ISO files, as these are tiny things could you explain how that works please?

 

I start mydvd from the Start menu by the way.

 

Computer is a HP T865 with nvidia geforce 6600

Intel Pentium 540

1gb DDR

250gb hard drive

 

I am not at the desperate stage yet - merely confused, I'm sure there is something I am overlooking, being a complete novice at this.

 

Any help gratefully received

[gi7omy]

That's not quite true. A .iso may be over the 4.7 GB limit, but if it's opened with Disc Copier, that will shrink it to fit the DVD (albeit with some loss in quality)

[John T Smith]

If you specify an ultimate destination of a single sided DVD disc, I don't think MyDVD will let you create an over-sized .ISO

 

But, that may be with the default setting of forcing the final file to fit, where MyDVD sets the compression according to the size of the disc

 

Of course... selecting a Dual Layer disc as output changes all that

[thumper]

Have you tried updated the drivers from Nvidia (from their site) and Directx9 from MS yet?

 

Hi Larry,

Yes I have updated the drivers recently.

 

An .ISO file is a "picture" that includes all the information that WOULD have been written to the disc, when you select the burn to disc option (you may also read a completed disc and create an .ISO file, to then burn more discs later)

 

The advantage of creating an .ISO is that if something goes wrong, you have not wasted a blank disc

 

When things go right, and the .ISO is successfully created, you then open the appropriate program, load the .ISO file, and write the disc... since my file associations "default" to the correct burning program, I simply double-click the completed .ISO file and then burn

 

So all that info contained in a big movie comes from that tiny file?

[Larry]

Similar problems to previous posts, but am not quite making sense of the answers - sorry.

 

I am capturing data from old VHS tapes that I want to output to DVD. As straight mpg files - no problem. The problem I have is that as soon as I edit them in Videowave (take out scenes or combine two files of around 1.2gb to make one whole movie) it won't burn to dvd or hard drive, it hangs at 50%. Also I read that you have recommended burning from ISO files, as these are tiny things could you explain how that works please?

 

I start mydvd from the Start menu by the way.

 

Computer is a HP T865 with nvidia geforce 6600

Intel Pentium 540

1gb DDR

250gb hard drive

 

I am not at the desperate stage yet - merely confused, I'm sure there is something I am overlooking, being a complete novice at this.

 

Any help gratefully received

Have you tried updated the drivers from Nvidia (from their site) and Directx9 from MS yet?

[John T Smith]

I read that you have recommended burning from ISO files, as these are tiny things could you explain how that works please?

An .ISO file is a "picture" that includes all the information that WOULD have been written to the disc, when you select the burn to disc option (you may also read a completed disc and create an .ISO file, to then burn more discs later)

 

The advantage of creating an .ISO is that if something goes wrong, you have not wasted a blank disc

 

When things go right, and the .ISO is successfully created, you then open the appropriate program, load the .ISO file, and write the disc... since my file associations "default" to the correct burning program, I simply double-click the completed .ISO file and then burn

[John T Smith]

(Re .ISO) So all that info contained in a big movie comes from that tiny file?

A single layer DVD holds "about" 4.7 Gig of information, so that is also the maximum size of an .ISO that you create

 

The actual size of the .ISO will, of course, depend on the length of the movie... with a 20 minute movie being a lot smaller than a longer movie

 

So... create the .ISO on your hard drive, then burn as needed