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What's a good free disc burner these days in 64-bit W7 SP1?
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. |
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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. -- John Corliss |
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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). | |
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What's a good free disc burner these days in 64-bit W7 SP1?
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. |
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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? |
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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 |
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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. |
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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! |
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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 ... (-: -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf .... "Peter and out." ... "Kevin and out." (Link episode) |
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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 :'( |
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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 |
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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! -- Quote of the Week: "A 'practical joker' deserves applause for his wit according to its quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest." --Lazarus Long Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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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!! |
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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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