HELP! Dvd video freeware burner needed...any ideas?

TRAVELMAN_2

Hi!

I often post on the Travel Boards & have been off a couple of weeks or so with training, company conferences...etc...

One of our 'talks' was about technology. I've now realised that I needed a DVD/CD writer (only £31-Pioneer, dual-layer, www.stuff-for-computers.co.uk!) to back up work data & burn back-up CD'S & DVD'S. I've downlaoded DVD shrink (which is freeware & SO easy) but can't seem to find a DVD video burner freeware (that's not riddled with spyware or is shareware) download anywhere! Any ideas?? Looking for something similar to Nero.

P.S-That stuff-for-computers site is well cheap-same as the cheapest dvd writer on pricerunner (except with pricerunner the cheapest has usually £6 p&p)-the media is especially cheap!

Thanks!

Chris

vultura

Buy an OEM copy of NERO, will be a lot less than the retail boxed version.

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=816239301&action=c2hvd2JyYW5k&mfr_uid=254

GlennTheBaker

Have you actually got your burner yet? If not, wait because you may get Nero bundled with it. Failing that, try HERE.

TRAVELMAN_2

Yup-hardware installed (pioneer 2 layer dvd/cd writer). Already got the one you mention, Glenn-FAB for CD but burned a DVD to h/drive with DVD shrink-tried copying/burning it with CD XP PRO -it took 15 mins (& seemed to be working) but when I tried to play the finished disk not a thing! A friend of mine thinks this programme is not for DVD VIDEO??

I know about holidays but this stuff is so conplicated....(!)

GlennTheBaker

I would follow the advice of vultura as Nero does the lot.

TRAVELMAN_2

Glenn/Vultura-THANKS!

Will do....the only 'free' burners I've found either don't work or I don't understand them! The xp cd copier works great for CD'S but can't seem to get DVD VIDEO to work.

Thanks for your help!

Chris

browolf

http://www.imgburn.com/ will do images create and burn

TRAVELMAN_2

Browwolf-tried to use imageburn but where it says 'highlight folder' (ie where the VIDEO DVD is stored in a folder) it would not let me apply this! Sorry-not being clear-but I could not find a way to highlight the folder i wanted to burn FROM-any ideas?

moneyuser

What's wrong with DVD Decrypter? Isn't it built into dvdshrink, if not then you can download it free. I know it hasn't got a pretty gui but it does the job much better than nero.

sevlow

As money user says - try DVD dycrypter. I use Shrink and Dycrypter togethor to burn DVD's. You can set shrink to automatically open and burn the files with Dycrypter once it's finished. Never had a problem yet.

TRAVELMAN_2

Hi!

Just about got this sussed! Using DVD shrink then imageburn (freeware written by the guy who did DVD Decrpter-interestingly now BANNED by macrovision as it helped 'crack' encrypted DVD'S!).

Not come across a DVD that SHRINK won't copy so far! Maybe I'm wrong but DVD encrpter does not compress & I guess by using DVD encrypter 1st (saving an ISO image file to hard-drive) & THEN compressing with shrink & then burining with imageburn gives a whole extra task & takes longer-am I missing something?

Also SHRINK seems to have this 'deep-scan' quality & an icon to tick for 'best quality' that seems to produce (so far!) great results.

4 more questions (!)...1stly what is an OEM programme/copy as mentioned by vultura?

Secondly, if i was to use a dual-layer DVD-R, & I wanted to put/burn TWO dvd's to it-how do I go about this with SHRINK/IMAGEBURN?

3-Media! Have had great results with cheapo DVD-r/+r dare I say it from poundland (!!!)-any reccomendations on cheap places to get media OR certain brands?

4-ISO files on hard drive-tried to 'zip' to save space-won't let me do it as it say's file is too big-any ideas?

God-what a learning curve-did not even know what an ISO image was yesterday!

Chris