CD/DVD Technology
CD/DVD Players/Burners/Media and duplication software/techniques
Please help' DVD software wont work
I have a Dell Dimension 8300.
I have a problem playing DVDæ¯ on my PC. I was using SpyBot and I think I let it delete an important file.
When I put a dvd in my dvd drive my screen goes blank?I then press Ctrl Alt Del and the screen comes ba...
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Taking screenshots from DVD?
Hey guys,
I need some help here. I have a buddy who asked me for a fav. He created a DVD slideshow with Roxie (his HD has since blown). The pictures are of his wife, who has since passed away. I need to get the pictures off of the DVD. I'm f...
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Problems ripping cd's with cd drive
I am trying to rip cd's onto media player using mycd drives. one is just a dvd/cd player and te other one is a cd and dvd writer. this one rips no problem but the normal dvd/cd player wont rip. it will play cd's though!! Can anyone help???
T...
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HD DVD Drive
Are there any HD DVD drives? I saw a blu-ray, but i havent seen any HD.
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burning DVD's
I am having a problem with my new computer and the same that I had with my old computer burning DVD's. Things went fine as I burned DVD's but am seeing that the DVD's that I burn stutter and stop on my DVD player and it is a new DVD player. I h...
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iTunes and iPod?
I wanted to get some people's opinions on iTunes and iPod...I really want to get a bigger mp3 player that will have more storage on it and when I saw iTunes I really like the program and all the stuff they offer on there. The only thing I don't...
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DVD not working
Hey everyone. I have a DVD-RW drive that I bought in septer of this year. When I put a disc in (I've tried every kind I can think of) the light comes for only a second and then goes off again. In My Computer it says that the drive is empty and ...
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HELP PLEASE with burning a DVD
Help!!
I am inserting an already burned DVD into the e: drive of my computer, which is shown as
DVD/CD-RW Drive (E
and I am trying to immediately burn the contents onto a blank DVD in the F Drive, which is shown as DVD RW Drive (F
I ha...
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problem with cd drive, keeps opening and closing
My dad has a Dell 2400 with 2 cd drives, 1 is a cd-rw drive. For some reason it started opening and closing by itself contsantly. It would even do it when the computer is booting up. The one that opens and closes by itself is just a regular ...
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securdisk
hey, for black friday i got a lg dvd burner to use externaly, it has this securdisc feature and i have looked online. Says that is a) tells you if your dvd is going bad and B) can revive info from damaged dvd's
hows does it a) tell the dvd i...
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sound works but no video
not sure if this is the right section to post this topic but.... i have a problem with my videos, the sound works but no picture! this happened suddenly too. i installed and reinstalled my graphics card drivers, and codecs and also windows medi...
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which player
what dvd player should i download. i need it to be free and run on windows xp. i've tried a few but none of them have worked.
My Comp:
- Intel Pentium D 840 3.2gGHz DT 800FSB Socket 775
- Ultra 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHz
- Intel D945PVSL...
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dvd drive not showing up
I have a Sony DVD drive I have had for awhile. I want to use it now to install some games. I have a CDRW drive and 2 hard drives.
C: is set as Primary Master
D: is set for Secondary Master
CDRW drive is set for Secondary Slave
Nothing i...
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Help burning dvd
So I got a new pc.
It has a dvd burner.
I can not figure out how to burn dvds.It only has on dvd/cd drive.
Do I have to dowload the dvd to my pc first then burn it?
If so how do I do that?
Thanks
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How do i
Hey i have a latitude d600 dell laptop will a teac cd-rom drive, I wanna put a dvd drive so i can burn/watch dvds. Im noob is dis posible and doable by me?
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help my drives are stuck
it takes me about 10 minutes just to put a different disk in our get my disk out its always stuck in there help!?
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vhs to dvd problems
With the help of DVD decrypter and DVD shrink it's easy to back up DVD movies but I'm having trouble with the old VHS conversions. Capture with nero results in an 8 meg MPEG file. Nero says it can't shrink the file sufficiently to fit on a DVD....
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Disc not recognized
I think my CD/DVD drive is shot, but I am hoping that somebody can give me a few tests to be sure before I attempt to replace it.
First off, both CDs and DVDs have been acting the same, so when I say CD, it goes the same for DVDs as well.
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Philips SPD6002BM
I'm looking for a cheap but decent dvd burner for my gf with lightscribe, and I've found the Philips SPD6002BM as the cheapest option.
In fact, it's almost too cheap, cheaper than other brands without lightscribe, like LG, Samsung, Asus, etc...
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Dvd driver problems...
Hello everyone
I have a problem with my DVD-RW driver.
I wanted to take some files from 1 dvd-->put them on my computer-->put in a new writable dvd--> and put the files on it.
when I put the dvd in the drive my computer allowed m...
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CD-ROM Burner In Device Manager, Not In My Computer
I have a Lite On Cd-Rom Burner on a user machine that doesn't seem to be working. In the Administrator account the burner shows up in My Computer and in Device Manager but in the user account it shows up in Device Manager but not in My Compute...
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DVD burn time
Is it normal for the machine in my sig to take ~3 or so hours to encode a DVD using Windows DVD Maker? (I'm making a disc with home video clips of all different qualities/bit-rates if that makes a difference). I just got this machine, I dunno, ...
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CD Writer Detecting problem
Hi,
My sysytem is VIA CHIPSET mother board, Celeran 800MHz processor,128MB RAM, 40GB hard disk, LG CD ROM.
Now i want to replace the existing CD ROM with LG GCE-8320B CD-R/RW writer.
I just replaced the New writer, i could open the file...
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dvd shrink problem
having a problem recording a james bond film,using dvd shrink 3.2 a message on the screen says "invalid dvd navigation structure" is this a copyright blocker or something i can work around,any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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What DVD media to buy???
I made a big mistake in buying Memorex discs. I don't understand what media I need to buy to copy my DVD backups. Could someone please point me in the right direction. I have read alot, but, I don't understand the codes etc on blanks. I need...
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Disgusting dvd drive
my dvd writer has started to irritate me. It takes almost half an hour to burn a dvd, be it on 2x or 16x.....any solution would help me save money!!!
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DVD burner problems
I have a lite-on dvd all format except dual layer. It has always worked great. Last night it would not reconize a dvd +R disk so I tried another and another. it will still recongize a cdr . So I downloaded the most recent firmware but that did ...
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AVI > DVD Mission
Hello all,
I've been given a task from a friend to burn some AVI videos to DVDs.
The AVI files are only 30-40ish meg, some promo adds or summin for his work.
Anyways how would one go about doing this?
I have a Vista PC with Nero7 if th...
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