tech sectiontech sectionWhen attempting to create a DVD with the Avi2Dvd application, you may see the program fail to correctly load the audio track that is embedded in the movie file. If you experience this issue, you can modify your original movie file using Windows Explorer; this can help prevent Avi2Dvd from failing to recognize the audio stream.
Fedora 9 is a version of the Linux operating system that can be installed on desktop and laptop computers from an ISO image burned on a disc. Although many Nero 8 users have no problems when they burn this image to a disc, you may be having difficulty with the burn process. There are four common causes for this issue, ranging from a defective disc to improperly configured burn settings. By troubleshooting through each possibility, you can usually get Nero 8 to burn the disc successfully.
PowerDirector 8 Deluxe and PowerDirector 8 Ultra are non-linear video editing applications developed by CyberLink. The company released both versions of PowerDirector 8 simultaneously in 2009 and marketed them toward amateur videographers looking for semi-professional editing capabilities at an entry-level price point. The two versions differ only slightly, and primarily in terms of media compatibility and price.
A computer's HDC, or hard drive controller, is the hard drive component that interfaces between the motherboard and hard drive, allowing for proper data transmission between the two. When replacing a broken motherboard, some computer owners have reported online that hardware incompatibilities cause a "blue screen of death." Often, this is an indication that the HDC must be fixed. "Fix HDC" is a utility program specifically for Windows systems.
You’ve downloaded a movie from Apple’s iTunes store, but it’s looking awfully small on your laptop’s screen. Wouldn’t it be nice to slap that movie onto a DVD and watch it on your big-screen TV? You're in luck, because with the help of a DRM removal application and a DVD writer, in a matter of minutes you can have your iTunes movie burned onto a disc and playing on a DVD player.
A duplicator tower consists of a PC tower with two or more disc drives that are used to make multiple copies of CDs and DVDs. Duplicator towers contain their own hardware and can be operated independently of a PC operating system, such as Windows or Mac, or they can be plugged into a PC with a USB cord. A duplicator tower can have from one to eight DVD/CD recorders and one master disc drive, where the master copy of the disc is read and copied from.
DSP can greatly enhance your listening experience by adjusting or modifying the audio output signal to produce unique effects. If you routinely listen to music on your computer with a DSP effect, you may be dissatisfied with the difference when playing off a CD without the effect. The solution is to use the Disk Writer plug-in included with the Winamp media player. This will write the music with the DSP effect to a file. You can then burn the DSP-enabled file to have the same effect on your CD.
In the evolving world of technology, television sets come with different display types, sizes and shapes. The way television screens are designed and built vary between type and brand, but they are all used for the same purpose – to view vivid images. However, no matter which type of television you purchase or how beautiful the screen is, problems may arise that cause the screen to malfunction. For example, several issues can cause a horizontal line to interrupt the picture on any television.
An ISO-burning application allows you to burn the contents stored within an ISO image onto a CD or DVD. YouTube contains thousands of instructional videos on how to use different ISO-burning applications. To use an ISO burning application that you saw on YouTube, you must first download it onto your computer and then install it. Most ISO-burning applications feature a simple user interface that allows you to immediately burn ISO images.
Audio on a burned DVD may play out of sync with the video, which results in a video that is very difficult to watch. The lip motions of any actors or people speaking in the video will come before the words they are speaking. This problem may be corrected, depending on what kind of sync problems you are experiencing.
Even though DVD to AVI Plus hasn’t been updated since 2003, it still has a few useful features often overlooked in some modern alternatives. The program preserves the subtitles in the conversion process. A DVD’s subtitle text is contained in a VOB file. DVD to AVI Plus can detect all of the subtitles available and enables you to add them to your AVI file. If you receive error messages when adding subtitles or running the program, correct the problem with Windows Compatibility Mode.
Moving Picture Expert Group-4, or MP4, is a video file extension that often accompanies smaller video files. Other video extensions such as AVI or MPEG can be converted to MP4 for them to fit onto a portable device or storage medium such as an iPod or SD card. Before converting the file over, you must make determine its bitrate. The bitrate describes the quality of the video.
DVD burners allow computer users to burn movie files on to recordable discs for playback in DVD players by using a DVD authoring program. However, you may encounter a problem where the audio track of a movie goes out of sync with the video when the disc is played. This problem may be due to several factors.
After authoring a project in Adobe Encore CS3, the program will burn the completed video to a DVD. Unfortunately, the program does not offer a choice for selecting which drive to use. In cases where a non-DVD burner loads as the default drive, or your DVD burner connects externally, this will prevent you from burning your project at all. To work around this problem, use the Windows Device Manager to temporarily disable your other disc drives.
You can burn disc images, usually in the ISO file format, to CDs or DVDs for use in a computer's DVD drive or a home DVD player. If you've used wxRipper to rip an ISO file from a DVD, you have to use another program to burn it onto a blank disc. You don't need to download anything if you're using Windows 7, as the operating system has native tools that can handle the task.
Optical media burners, such as DVD burners and CD burners, measure their speed in multiples of a single base speed. CD burners use 150 kilobytes per second, or KBps, as a base speed while DVD burners use 1.32 megabytes per second, or MBps, as a base speed. Thus a DVD burner that burns data at 1X transfers 1.32MB of data to the disc per second, a burner that burns at 2X transfers 2.64 MB of data per second, and so on.
Recordable DVDs are available in two different formats: minus (DVD-R) and plus (DVD+R). Both formats store up to 4.7 gigabytes of information and can be used for burning DVD video discs. However, the DVD-R and DVD+R formats do have some differences that are worth considering.
Recordable DVDs allow computer users to burn digital video files that can be played on most DVD players. However, several factors can affect the picture quality of a burned DVD and some discs may have blurry image quality or display compression artifacts such as pixelation and macroblocking. Fortunately, you may be able to burn the disc using a different setting to improve the quality of the final disc.
DVD formats are a confusing alphabet soup of acronyms you must familiarize yourself with when choosing between DVD burners and their corresponding media. While the names DVD+RW and DVD-RW, DVD+R DVD-R, DVD-RAM and DVD-ROM are similar-sounding, the slight technical differences between them often makes them incompatible with each other. Some formats were designed for purely competitive reasons, but the DVD-RAM and DVD-ROM standards fill specific data storage niches.
Movies can be burned on to recordable DVD video discs with a DVD burner and played back on most standard DVD players. However, you may encounter a problem with your discs where there is no audio track after the disc is burned and played back. This may be due to the audio format of the source file, software problems or the setup of your DVD player.
A Memorex DVD burner, like any brand of DVD burner, may fail to recognize blank discs for a variety of reasons. This problem may be due to a dirty lens, but could also be caused by a software issue or compatibility issue with the blank disc media. If a DVD burner is unable to recognize blank discs, it could also be a sign that the unit that needs to be replaced.
AnyDVD and Nero are two programs that can be used together to make a perfect copy of any DVD. By itself, Nero is only capable of copying DVDs that do not utilize any copy protection standards. AnyDVD, on the other hand, is designed to disable copy protection in the background, which then makes it possible another program, such as Nero, to make a complete copy of the DVD.
Several external DVD burners are made to copy a variety of formats, including CDs. If your CD won't copy, the burner's software, the disc or both may be at fault. Cooperation among other users sharing the same network is also necessary to ensure smooth CD copying sessions.
The Ashampoo Burning Studio provides you with the necessary tools to burn files from your computer to a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc. While the Ashampoo software is more complicated than the native burning tools on your system, burning a digital video, such as an MP4, is a straightforward process. The Ashampoo software is capable of burning a DVD that can be used with other computers or a standalone DVD player.
Save data to external storage media to back up and protect your data and to move files to another computer. One external data storage option is to use optical DVD disks, but you can must use only certain types of DVDs for data storage and access.
Dual layer DVDs can store almost twice as much data as standard DVDs. Dual layer DVD drives use special lasers that can focus on two different layers of one disc to read data off of either layer. The vast majority of MacBook and MacBook Pro computers are equipped with DVD-DL compatible drives.
As of the time of publication, a CD-R, or Compact Disc Recordable, provides up to 700 MB of storage space, making it a convenient way to store backup and other types of data. If you cannot read the files on a burned CD-R, use a recovery application such as Max Data Recovery, CD Recovery Toolbox or IsoBuster to recover them. These applications can recover and save the contents on a corrupt CD-R to your computer's hard disk.
Paul McCartney founded MPL Music Publishing in 1971. Today, this online company allows you to license music for commercial or noncommercial use. The site has some audio selections that you can listen to, and you can also sometimes download MPL's music and burn it to a CD. Keep in mind that burning or copying copyrighted music without permission is illegal.
Limited only by memory and available hard drive space, Oracle’s VirtualBox is a virtualization program that essentially allows you to run separate operating systems on one computer. For example, you may be able to run a Linux operating system using VirtualBox on a Windows-based system. While it runs as a separate system, you may use VirtualBox to burn a CD using the host computer’s CD or DVD burner.
Original PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 game discs from Sony are often expensive. Therefore, creating backup copies of your original game CD or DVDs can help protect your investment. Replacing an inexpensive writable disc is much easier to bear than having to replacing a costly original. However, most firmware versions for the PS2 or PS3 do not recognize games on burned discs. To play games from backup discs, you must purchase a burnable version of GameShark and use the application to boot your PS2 or PS3 before you can run games burned or copied on backup discs.
RipIt4Me is an application that allows you to rip DVD videos to your hard disk. It has the ability to automatically use the decryption keys in DVD Decrypter to crack the encryption on encrypted DVDs. After ripping a video DVD to your hard disk, you can use Nero Express to burn the copied video files to a new DVD.
A software modification, also referred so as a "softmod," of a PlayStation 2 takes advantage of a glitch in the way PS2 consoles read and execute game data. Unlike a "hardmod," which requires the user to modify hardware components of the console, softmodding a PS2 only requires changes to the software running the machine. Although softmodding your PS2 opens it to new uses, doing so will void any warranty and may render the console unplayable.
PowerISO is a comprehensive disc image utility that is able to create, burn and edit ISO files and a variety of other formats. Movies can be burned to CD, DVD or Blu-ray, provided they are in a format that PowerISO can work with. Compatible formats include most disc image file types, including ISO, BIN and NRG. You may need to use a third-party program to convert your movie into a format that PowerISO can work with.
The file extension NVC is one rarely used, and is typically ascribed to only two programs -- NeroVision Express and Nikon Capture. Of the two, NeroVision Express is more commonly associated with this particular extension. Both extensions coincidentally are linked to proprietary formats involved in visual media, despite being unrelated to one another.
A suite of multimedia applications including a DVD player and recorder, InterVideo WinCinema lets you create and copy DVDs and Video Compact Discs within one application. The suite is free and bundled with the installation software for various internal and external DVD burners. InterVideo WinCinema is also available from online software download websites and outlets.
CDA files serve as shortcuts to any audio tracks present on an audio CD. Burning an audio CD with WAV or MP3 files will automatically create CDA shortcuts for each file. You can use an application such as EZ WAV to CDA, MP3 CD Converter or Burn4Free to create audio CDs. However, you must pay to use certain functions of these applications.
Putting a burned video disc into your player and finding that it skips continuously can be aggravating. Instead of a relaxed evening lounging on the sofa with your video, you are stuck trying to troubleshoot a technical glitch. Aggressive burning speeds and scratched, dirty or damaged discs all may cause skipping. Luckily, it is usually possible to prevent or stop a video from skipping by burning at a slower speed or with general disc-related troubleshooting and maintenance.
Mini DVD camcorders give you the ability to record your home movies directly to mini DVD discs. With DVD-RAM discs, you can record, erase and re-record on a single disc almost 100,000 times before needing to replace the disc. With DVD-R discs, you can record up to two hours of footage that you can view on just about any DVD player. To copy the contents of a mini DVD to a standard DVD disc, you will need a computer with a DVD burner drive.
An ISO file is a perfect digital image of the contents of a CD. Large programs like the Ubuntu operating system, for example, often come in the ISO format. You cannot burn multiple ISO files to the same CD as images, but you can burn them as data files, size permitting, then access them using a virtual CD drive.
The Lenovo X200 is a laptop of the Lenovo brand, and is more formally known as the Lenovo Thinkpad X200. According to Lenovo's datasheet on the machine, different models could be outfitted with a DVD-ROM, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, DVD Burner or Blu-ray capabilities. For any individual to burn a DVD on a Lenovo X200 machine, it must be equipped with a DVD burning optical drive, as well as appropriate DVD burning software.
When you're looking through files from flash drives, video cards or other storage devices, you might come across some unfamiliar file types, such as VRO. Understand the definition and purpose of the VRO file format to expedite its function in your video recording.
HFS, or Hierarchical File System, refers to the Macintosh-based standard file system for maintaining and compressing folder or hard drive structures in a single disk image file. The HFS system is used as a standard for all disk image creations in Mac OS X operating systems. Mac OS X users can easily burn an HFS CD master image in CDR/ISO format using a built-in Utility in their Applications folder called Disk Utility. You will need to save the disk image to your hard drive before burning to disc, so make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive.
DVD players work by using a laser to interpret data on the disc into audio and video signals. The laser's beam is directed to the DVD and the data is reflected back to the lens for reading. If you have a problem with your DVD player not reading discs, the lens is often to blame. Luckily, it's usually a dirty lens that impedes your DVD player's ability to read media. Still, sometimes a lens can simply burn out and stop working, which means a replacement is in order.
You can create your own copies of recordings on your AT&T U-Verse DVR by connecting it to a DVD-recorder. DVD-recorders provide the same function as VCRs, but write the video to a DVD rather than a VHS tape. Once the files are burned to the DVD, you can feel free to make room on your DVR for more recordings.
The process of deleting songs from a burned CD from your iTunes library is no different than deleting songs you downloaded from the iTunes Store or added from your own CD collection. The thing that does differ is the manner in which you find those songs in your library. Fortunately, search filters in iTunes make finding those songs a fairly easy and time efficient proposition.
Pwrisovm.exe is a component of a CD emulation program that manages communication between the software and your computer's hardware. It normally runs in the background and is normally completely harmless. Once you understand Pwrisovm.exe and its function, you can determine whether or not the instance of Pwrisovm.exe running on your machine is what it appears to be.
Compilations contain diverse file types like music, video or document collections. Because of the various media file types, the size can be quite large. You can burn compilation files with Nero Burning ROM software. Its "Burn Compilation" feature allows you to record several diverse file types onto one CD or DVD.
An oil burner is part of a home heating unit, the fuel for which is oil. Oil burners are connected to electrodes and enable the electrodes to create a spark on either side of a spray oil discharge. That spark fires the heating unit and allows the production of heat. Setting up the oil burner for proper firing requires properly setting the combustion.
Burning CDs on your computer allows you to make copies of your favorite CDs or create mix CDs of your favorite music to play at parties or give to friends. You can burn a CD on your Presario F700 in only a few minutes. To burn a CD on your computer, you can use Windows Media Player, which is an audio software program. This program comes pre-installed on all Windows based computers, including the Presario F700.
A CIF file is an image format that stores information from optical media, including CDs, DVDs and Blu Ray discs. CIF images are a convenient way to back up a disc’s contents while maintaining its original file and folder structure. If you wish to back up such data, various third-party utilities can successfully read and write all available information to a new disc.
