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  #106  
Old November 7th 16, 10:39 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
T
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On 11/05/2016 09:39 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 10/26/2016 7:50 PM, Ant wrote:
To copy discs from one optical disc to another optical drive directly
(skipping HDD), burn files to data discs, etc. I used to use Nero v8 and
Adaptec CD Creator in Windows XP Pro SP3.

Note that I do not have a BR drive at this time. Thank you in advance.



CDEx.

http://download.cnet.com/CDex/3000-2140_4-10055262.html



I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many
times with coffee coaster, instead of usable disks, so
I love the check after burn feature.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Get the "msi" version. It doesn't come with junkware
prompts.


Ads
  #107  
Old November 7th 16, 12:14 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
John Corliss[_3_]
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T wrote:
On 11/05/2016 09:39 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 10/26/2016 7:50 PM, Ant wrote:
To copy discs from one optical disc to another optical drive directly
(skipping HDD), burn files to data discs, etc. I used to use Nero v8 and
Adaptec CD Creator in Windows XP Pro SP3.

Note that I do not have a BR drive at this time. Thank you in advance.



CDEx.

http://download.cnet.com/CDex/3000-2140_4-10055262.html



I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt.


Sounds painful.

I have arrived at a customer's site too many
times with coffee coaster, instead of usable disks, so
I love the check after burn feature.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Get the "msi" version. It doesn't come with junkware
prompts.


There's also a portable version. I just downloaded and expanded the 32
bit version and it didn't seem to contain any junk.

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  #108  
Old November 7th 16, 03:03 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Wolf K" wrote

| So why won't these technical solutions be implemented any time soon? And
| what can you do about that? And would you be willing to do it?
|

Do what? Revolution? You have a way of assuming
people know your thoughts. Or that at any rate they
ought to. Maybe I did misinterpret what you were trying
to say. You never addressed the ideas of doing things
like avoiding gmail or turning off GPS services. But now
that you've finally explained at least a little bit (below),
it sounds like you think there's some kind of evil,
conspiring, global "elite" who must be defeated before
you can have any privacy. All or nothing. Your reasoning
is not coherent enough to respond to, at least as
presented. (It's a very big leap from a British minister
against ad blocking to privacy being political.)

But maybe this subthread should end, anyway. We've
pretty much covered the different views on privacy. And
if you're a political activist then I know from experience
that you probably see all issues as external to yourself.
So your ilk can use gmail and organize your protest rallies
on Facebook, while my ilk carry on with a personal,
practical approach.

| As the example shows, privacy is political, not technical.
|
| Footnote: Before Brexit misdirected the world's attention about British
| politics, one of their cabinet ministers characterised ad-blocking as a
| "terrorism". That makes it quite clear that protecting privacy, of all
| kinds, is a political problem. (BTW, I think that the reason the British
| gov't is happy to proceed with Brexit is that it will free the greedy
| classes from having to live with that pesky European notion that the
| purpose of business is to serve the community, not the other way round).
|


  #109  
Old November 7th 16, 06:53 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:04:05 -0500, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

Last time I counted cars when running it at 65, I passed two vehicles:
a clapped out maxivan doing about 50-55 in the left lane, and a
deuce-and-a-half cabover that was getting blown back-and-forth across
the lines by the wind.

OTOH, 138 vehicles passed me - and none slowly.


The only problem with those kinds of ad hoc statistics is that there can be
a zillion people going the same speed or slower than you, which you will
never pass.

If they're going the same speed, you'll never know, whether they're in front
or behind. And, let's face it, most cars go at approximately the same speed
on the highway (it's how highways work).

So, my only point is that you have to be static to really get an idea of how
fast the traffic is going, on the whole. You can't easily do it with a
moving frame of reference.
  #110  
Old November 7th 16, 06:53 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Algeria Horan
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 01:39:45 -0800, T wrote:

I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many
times with coffee coaster, instead of usable disks, so
I love the check after burn feature.


Do you need two burners to make this feature useful?

Or, does the image stay resident in memory somewhere?

I would guess that most people still have one dvd burner, but how many
people have two dvd burners hooked to the same computer?
  #111  
Old November 7th 16, 09:01 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Algeria Horan wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 01:39:45 -0800, T wrote:

I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many
times with coffee coaster, instead of usable disks, so
I love the check after burn feature.


Do you need two burners to make this feature useful?

Or, does the image stay resident in memory somewhere?

I would guess that most people still have one dvd burner, but how many
people have two dvd burners hooked to the same computer?


There were some OEM machines, that had a read-only
drive for the first optical drive, and a read-write
drive as the second drive. I don't know if read-only
drives are that much cheaper any more. A writer only
costs around $20 or so, so if you want two drives,
it's not a big deal.

To burn from one drive to the other, it would help to have
a buffer in memory for the transfer. The reader would
get, say, 30 seconds ahead of the writer, to try to
keep the buffer full.

But that's not absolutely essential. It would depend
on whether you wanted as clean a burn as possible. This
article seems to be claiming that the overhead from
this stuff is minimal. You'd need to find a better article
than this, to see if this is compromising the quality
of the burn or not. There is a difference between
CDs and DVDs. The DVD+xx format has a different way
of encoding the groove, which is one difference between
DVD-xx and DVD+xx technology. The DVD-xx might be
read in all set top players, while the DVD+xx is a
superior technology (due to the groove design).
The recording path is a spiral pattern, and the recording
arm needs to "track" the spiral in a precise way (without
touching it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optica... n_protection

More here. There is plenty of nitty-gritty materials...

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/

"Well, it turned out that I was wrong about one thing.
I failed to recognize that DVD-R[W] groove also
provides for adequately accurate recovery from buffer
underrun condition/lossless linking. Not as accurate
as DVD+RW, but accurate enough for splices to be playable
in virtually any DVD-ROM/-Video unit. Yet! When it comes
to DVD-R[W] recording specificaton apparently insists
that you choose between

* buffer underrun protection and
* full DVD-ROM/-Video compatibility.

The specification asserts that the latter is achieved
only in Disc-at-once recording mode and only if data-stream
was maintained uninterrupted throughout whole recording.
Once again. Even though most vendors implement lossless
linking in DAO mode(*), full DVD-ROM/-Video compatibility
is guaranteed only if recording didn't suffer from buffer
underruns.

The problem is that "offended" sectors are denoted with
certain linking chunk appearing as degraded user data,
few bytes, which are supposed to be "corrected away" by
ECC procedure(**). DVD+ splices are in turn only few bits
large and are "accounted" to sync patterns, not to user
data area. So that even if suffered from buffer underrun,
DVD+ sector is logically indistiguishable from DVD-ROM.
Which is why it's commonly referred to that DVD+RW/+R
combine DVD-ROM/-Video compatibility with [unconditional]
buffer underrun protection.

As already mentioned, DVD+ groove has "addressing
information modulated into it," ADIP (ADress In Pre-groove).
This gives you an advantage of writing DVD+RW in truly
arbitrary order, even to virgin surface and practically
instantly (after ~40 seconds long initial format procedure).
In addition, DVD+RW can be conveniently written to with 2KB
granularity(***).

DVD-RW in turn can only be overwritten in arbitrary order.
Meaning that it either has to be completely formatted first
(it takes an hour to format 1x media), or initially written
to in a sequential manner. And it should also be noted that
block overwrite is never an option if DVD-RW media was
recorded in [compatible] Disc-at-once or even Incremental
mode, only whole disc blanking is.
"

Not that anyone cares of course :-) People buy media
at the store, like the choice of (+) or (-) was completely
random :-)

HTH,
Paul
  #112  
Old November 7th 16, 10:24 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On 11/07/2016 09:53 AM, Algeria Horan wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 01:39:45 -0800, T wrote:

I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many
times with coffee coaster, instead of usable disks, so
I love the check after burn feature.


Do you need two burners to make this feature useful?

Or, does the image stay resident in memory somewhere?

I would guess that most people still have one dvd burner, but how many
people have two dvd burners hooked to the same computer?


It checks the source against from the hard drive against
what is on the CD/DVD.

If you want to copy a CD/DVD, you only need one drive
as the routine copies from whatever source to your
hard drive before burning. A single drive will just
pop the source out and ask for a blank disk to burn to.
  #113  
Old November 8th 16, 05:12 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On 11/07/2016 06:36 PM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2016-11-07 16:24, T wrote:
On 11/07/2016 09:53 AM, Algeria Horan wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 01:39:45 -0800, T wrote:

I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many
times with coffee coaster, instead of usable disks, so
I love the check after burn feature.

Do you need two burners to make this feature useful?

Or, does the image stay resident in memory somewhere?

I would guess that most people still have one dvd burner, but how many
people have two dvd burners hooked to the same computer?


It checks the source against from the hard drive against
what is on the CD/DVD.

If you want to copy a CD/DVD, you only need one drive
as the routine copies from whatever source to your
hard drive before burning. A single drive will just
pop the source out and ask for a blank disk to burn to.


I'm a bit bemused by OP's original request. Since disc-to-disc copy
requires at least a memory image of the source, I really don't see much
advantage of two burners for this operation. Popping a blank disc into a
single burner takes a few seconds at most. If you create the *.iso on
your HDD, then with two burners you may be able to make two copies at a
time, I suppose. IIRC, there were multi-disk burners available at one time.

Unless we're talking about software that reads and burns a chunk of data
at a time, like copying from one drive/partition to another. IIRC, at
one time you could do this with Windows, you just popped a blank CD into
the burner, and dragged the file(s) to be copied over to it Explorer
window, and Windows copied them.

Anyhow, thanks for the links to CDex and cdburnerxp, and have a good day,


:-)

I have a customer with a CD duplicator. Uses standard CD Burners
from computers. One source drive and eight slaves. It is a good
10 times faster than cutting it on a computer. And that
is 10 a once. My goodness!


  #114  
Old November 10th 16, 01:02 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 2016-11-07 16:24, T wrote:
On 11/07/2016 09:53 AM, Algeria Horan wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 01:39:45 -0800, T wrote:

I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many

[]
That sounds decidedly painful ... (-:
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  #115  
Old November 10th 16, 05:35 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On 11/09/2016 04:02 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 2016-11-07 16:24, T wrote:
On 11/07/2016 09:53 AM, Algeria Horan wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 01:39:45 -0800, T wrote:

I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many

[]
That sounds decidedly painful ... (-:


Indeed, that it does!

You know what, if typo'ing made you money, I'd
be rich.

I mistype "Widows" for "Windows" a lot (chuckle),
but I mostly catch them all.

I type "yo" for "you" and "you" for "your" a lot,
but "dick" for "disk" is a new one!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Maybe a bit
of both! :-D :'(
  #116  
Old November 10th 16, 06:26 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On 11/6/2016 3:51 PM, Ant wrote:
CDEx.


http://download.cnet.com/CDex/3000-2140_4-10055262.html


Isn't that just an audio ripper and encoder?


Oh sorry, you're right, I was really thinking of ImgBurn:

The Official ImgBurn Website
http://www.imgburn.com/

Download:
http://download.cnet.com/ImgBurn/300...-10847481.html

  #117  
Old November 10th 16, 11:20 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many

[]
That sounds decidedly painful ... (-:


Indeed, that it does!


You know what, if typo'ing made you money, I'd
be rich.


I mistype "Widows" for "Windows" a lot (chuckle),
but I mostly catch them all.


I type "yo" for "you" and "you" for "your" a lot,
but "dick" for "disk" is a new one!


I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Maybe a bit
of both! :-D :'(


LOL!
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  #118  
Old November 12th 16, 10:46 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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T wrote:
On 11/05/2016 09:39 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 10/26/2016 7:50 PM, Ant wrote:
To copy discs from one optical disc to another optical drive directly
(skipping HDD), burn files to data discs, etc. I used to use Nero v8 and
Adaptec CD Creator in Windows XP Pro SP3.

Note that I do not have a BR drive at this time. Thank you in advance.



CDEx.

http://download.cnet.com/CDex/3000-2140_4-10055262.html



I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many
times with coffee coaster, instead of usable disks, so
I love the check after burn feature.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Get the "msi" version. It doesn't come with junkware
prompts.


Just installed it and it works great. Thanks for the tip!!
  #119  
Old November 13th 16, 12:53 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On 11/12/2016 01:46 PM, Arnie Goetchius wrote:
T wrote:
On 11/05/2016 09:39 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 10/26/2016 7:50 PM, Ant wrote:
To copy discs from one optical disc to another optical drive directly
(skipping HDD), burn files to data discs, etc. I used to use Nero v8 and
Adaptec CD Creator in Windows XP Pro SP3.

Note that I do not have a BR drive at this time. Thank you in advance.



CDEx.

http://download.cnet.com/CDex/3000-2140_4-10055262.html



I am jumping in a little late here, but I adore CD Burner XP.
The best feature is that it will do a check of the dick after
it is burnt. I have arrived at a customer's site too many
times with coffee coaster, instead of usable disks, so
I love the check after burn feature.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Get the "msi" version. It doesn't come with junkware
prompts.


Just installed it and it works great. Thanks for the tip!!


You are most welcome.
 




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