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9 total messages Started by penang Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:50
Creating 2000 DVDs - How ?
#16
Author: penang
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:50
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Hi all.

My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
celebration.

Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
trying to find a way to speed up the task.

In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
XP.

My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.

The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
get really ugly.

We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
can use to burn the DVD ?

In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?

I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
software that can do the job.

Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.

If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
better.

Thank you all !
Re: Creating 2000 DVDs - How ?
#17
Author: smlunatick
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:12
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On Oct 9, 8:50 am, pen...@catholic.org wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
> have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
> burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
> celebration.
>
> Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
> ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
> trying to find a way to speed up the task.
>
> In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
> all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
> 3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
> XP.
>
> My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
> only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
> because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.
>
> The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
> but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
> get really ugly.
>
> We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
> anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
> can use to burn the DVD ?
>
> In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
> smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?
>
> I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
> but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
> software that can do the job.
>
> Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.
>
> If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
> better.
>
> Thank you all !

Are you using the "bundled" OEM version of Nero or the full "retail"
boxed version of Nero?
Re: Creating 2000 DVDs - How ?
#14
Author: smh
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:09
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(LIBEL -- despite Mikey claimed to have PROOF of libels & misquotes!)
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penang wrote:
> 
> My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
> have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
> burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
> celebration.
> 
> Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
> ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
> trying to find a way to speed up the task.
> 
> In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
> all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
> 3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
> XP.
> 
> My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
> only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
> because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.
> 
> The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
> but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
> get really ugly.
> 
> We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
> anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
> can use to burn the DVD ?
> 
> In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
> smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?
> 
> I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
> but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
> software that can do the job.
> 
> Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.
> 
> If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
> better.
> 
> Thank you all !

The following all support multiple simultaneous recorders:

Nero - you need to purchase special license for more than a few
recorders
RecordNow - v6.5 and lower support 64 burners, but don't know for v6.5+

DeepBurner, DiscJuggler, Gear Pro - Ask them
Re: Creating 2000 DVDs - How ?
#15
Author: Mike Richter
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:19
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smlunatick wrote:
> On Oct 9, 8:50 am, pen...@catholic.org wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
>> have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
>> burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
>> celebration.
>>
>> Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
>> ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
>> trying to find a way to speed up the task.
>>
>> In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
>> all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
>> 3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
>> XP.
>>
>> My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
>> only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
>> because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.
>>
>> The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
>> but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
>> get really ugly.
>>
>> We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
>> anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
>> can use to burn the DVD ?
>>
>> In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
>> smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?
>>
>> I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
>> but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
>> software that can do the job.
>>
>> Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.
>>
>> If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
>> better.
>>
>> Thank you all !
> 
> Are you using the "bundled" OEM version of Nero or the full "retail"
> boxed version of Nero?

I missed the original post, so am tagging onto the reply. First, I do 
recommend having 2000 copies pressed rather than burned. It's 
inexpensive whether you have the backs printed or not, playability is 
better and wear and tear on hardware and people is less. I've had a 
couple of dozen titles pressed although I own a four-drive duplicating 
tower.

A single instance of Nero will burn multiple copies. I have two 
different Plextor burners (one EIDE, one SATA) and regularly burn two 
copies of a disc. I have had more than three optical drives under XP Pro 
at one time, but have not run more than two at once.

Mike
-- 
mrichter@cpl.net
http://www.mrichter.com/
Re: Creating 2000 DVDs - How ?
#13
Author: Harry331
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:40
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penang@catholic.org wrote...
>
>Hi all.
>
>My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
>have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
>burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
>celebration.
>
>Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
>ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
>trying to find a way to speed up the task.
>
>In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
>all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
>3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
>XP.
>
>My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
>only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
>because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.
>
>The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
>but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
>get really ugly.
>
>We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
>anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
>can use to burn the DVD ?
>
>In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
>smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?
>
>I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
>but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
>software that can do the job.
>
>Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.
>
>If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
>better.
>
>Thank you all !
>

I have a DVD with 4.5GB movie content, converted to Dixv and
then uploaded to Youtube. Once download everything back from 
Youtube,they occuplied less than 200MB FLV images.

You don't need to burn 2000 DVD's, just upload them to Youtube. 

BTW, if you want a commandline burning software, try cdrtools.
It's free.




 
Mike Richter: CD-R Faq Makes a Common Mistake
#10
Author: smh
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:55
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Mike Richter spewed:
> 
> <snip>

Mikey, can't you spare a time from your spewing to update whether the
FAQ has corrected the common mistake?

        ---------------------------------------------
        Mike Richter: CD-R Faq Makes a Common Mistake
        ---------------------------------------------

      ======================
      From:    Mike Richter
      Date:    9/16/01

      the FAQ makes a common mistake in that section,
      confusing Enhanced CD with its predecessor, CD Extra
      ======================
Mike Richter: CD-R Faq Conflicts with References
#11
Author: smh
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:55
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Mike Richter spewed:
> 
> <snip>

Mikey, can't you spare a time from your spewing to update whether the
FAQ has corrected the conflict with references?

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       Mike Richter: CD-R Faq Conflicts with References
       ------------------------------------------------

          ========================
          From:    Mike Richter
          Date:    5/14/01

          Yes, the FAQ says that a Mixed Mode disc
          is written in a single session.

          I don't doubt it...but it conflicts with

          other information I have gleaned from
          references
          ========================
Mike Richter: CD-R Faq has Significant Errors
#12
Author: smh
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:55
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Mike Richter spewed:
> 
> <snip>

Mikey, can't you spare a time from your spewing to update whether the
FAQ has corrected the significant errors?

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        Mike Richter: CD-R Faq has Significant Errors
        ---------------------------------------------

       ======================
       From:    Mike Richter
       Date:    5/24/02

       I've posted privately to Andy on the FAQ section.

       It is quite dated ... and has significant errors
       =====================
Re: Creating 2000 DVDs - How ?
#9
Author: Dave Cohen
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:55
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penang@catholic.org wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> My alma mater is going to have its 100 birthday bash next month. We
> have already produced a documentary of our school, and would like to
> burn 2000 DVDs to give them out to the participants of the birthday
> celebration.
> 
> Since this is an in-house production, we would want to do everything
> ourselves. However, burning 2000 discs is not exactly fun. So I am
> trying to find a way to speed up the task.
> 
> In our office, we have 8 machines that we can use to burn the DVDs,
> all of them are Pentium D 925 machine (3GHz, dual core, 2MB of cache,
> 3GB of RAM each) and we have a total of 32 DVD burners, all running
> XP.
> 
> My experiment so far is that if I use Nero to do the burning, I can
> only run the maximum of 3 DVD burners per machine concurrently,
> because if I put 4 DVD burners there, XP crashes.
> 
> The hardware can handle much more than the 3 DVD burners per machine,
> but apparently if I run more than 3 instances of Nero on XP, things
> get really ugly.
> 
> We have the ISO file for the DVD, and my question to you is - Can
> anyone please tell me if there's any other DVD burning software that I
> can use to burn the DVD ?
> 
> In other words, I am looking for a DVD burning software that is much
> smaller and lighter than Nero. Is there such a thing ?
> 
> I do know about the option of letting the pros doing the DVD burning,
> but since we already have the hardware, I like to look for the right
> software that can do the job.
> 
> Would appreciate very much for any of your ideas / suggestions.
> 
> If you can suggest a freeware, or not so costly alternative, even
> better.
> 
> Thank you all !
> 
Sound like your Nero should do it, but if you want other choices there 
is burncdcc.zip from www.terabyteunlimited.com. ir0431_unicode.exe is 
what I used to burn a Ubuntu cd from .iso because they told me to 
although I have other software.
Dave Cohen
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