Does my DVD drive support dual layer?

[Tacoman359]

I'm not sure if my DVD drive supports dual layer (DVD-9). I have a JLMS DVD-ROM XJ-HD166. I'm pretty sure it supports both DVD+R and DVD-R and all I have tested are DVD-5 (4.7GB) DVD's. If anybody knows the solution to this, please post it. I know that this post doesn't really fit in this forum, but I have DVDit Pro HD and there isn't really anywhere else that I could post it.

[ogdens]

I'm not sure if my DVD drive supports dual layer (DVD-9). I have a JLMS DVD-ROM XJ-HD166. I'm pretty sure it supports both DVD+R and DVD-R and all I have tested are DVD-5 (4.7GB) DVD's. If anybody knows the solution to this, please post it. I know that this post doesn't really fit in this forum, but I have DVDit Pro HD and there isn't really anywhere else that I could post it.

 

Read this http://support2.jp.dell.com/docs/storage/P62845/en/specs.htm

[Tacoman359]

Well I've burned DVD's before using Roxio DVDit Pro HD, so one of my other drives must have a DVD burner. I have a _NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD and a GW8362E NZI241T SCSI CdRom Device. I'm pretty sure they are both implemented into the same drive because my CD drive will read blank DVD+R's and CD's. And now I've also got another problem. When I try to copy a movie into DVDit Pro HD, it automatically sets the space left to -1.22 GB. I'm pretty sure this has to do with my video codec, I'm using K-Lite. This movie is only 880 MB and I'm trying to burn it to a 4.7 GB DVD. Even when I tried the mp4 format of it, it still put it at -1.22 GB. The mp4 format is only 430 MB, too.

[ogdens]

Well I've burned DVD's before using Roxio DVDit Pro HD, so one of my other drives must have a DVD burner. I have a _NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD and a GW8362E NZI241T SCSI CdRom Device. I'm pretty sure they are both implemented into the same drive because my CD drive will read blank DVD+R's and CD's. And now I've also got another problem. When I try to copy a movie into DVDit Pro HD, it automatically sets the space left to -1.22 GB. I'm pretty sure this has to do with my video codec, I'm using K-Lite. This movie is only 880 MB and I'm trying to burn it to a 4.7 GB DVD. Even when I tried the mp4 format of it, it still put it at -1.22 GB. The mp4 format is only 430 MB, too.

 

Your original question was "I'm not sure if my DVD drive supports dual layer (DVD-9)".

 

The only BURNER you have listed on here will NOT support Dual Layer (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/p64593/en/specs.htm).

 

Maybe another user can answer your second problem.

[mmace]

Well I've burned DVD's before using Roxio DVDit Pro HD, so one of my other drives must have a DVD burner. I have a _NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD and a GW8362E NZI241T SCSI CdRom Device. I'm pretty sure they are both implemented into the same drive because my CD drive will read blank DVD+R's and CD's. And now I've also got another problem. When I try to copy a movie into DVDit Pro HD, it automatically sets the space left to -1.22 GB. I'm pretty sure this has to do with my video codec, I'm using K-Lite. This movie is only 880 MB and I'm trying to burn it to a 4.7 GB DVD. Even when I tried the mp4 format of it, it still put it at -1.22 GB. The mp4 format is only 430 MB, too.

not sure how to explain it simply

 

DVD's use MPEG2 compression, the video file you have that is 880Mb isn't MPEG2, DVDit will have to convert the video to MPEG2 which will make it (by the sounds of it) around 5.6Gb. You need to go into the project settings and change the SD transcoding to a different (smaller) bitrate/quality for it to fit on the disc

[Tacoman359]

Read this http://support2.jp.dell.com/docs/storage/P62845/en/specs.htm

 

Oh, well since mine only supports 9.4GB DVD-9 DVD's, does that mean I can't make dual layer DVD's in DVDit Pro HD because DVDit Pro HD only supports 8.5GB DVD-9 DVD's.

[ogdens]

Oh, well since mine only supports 9.4GB DVD-9 DVD's, does that mean I can't make dual layer DVD's in DVDit Pro HD because DVDit Pro HD only supports 8.5GB DVD-9 DVD's.

 

 

You cant make anything with your JLMS DVD-ROM XJ-HD166 is not a burner, just a reader.