DVD/CD Burner Software

Hello farmerlee.

Too much? Nero 7 is the mother of all hogs. And it's not just the hog acpect of Nero that is repulsive. That slew of utilities that Nero is integrating in their 200Mb package are of no much use, except some basic audio and video features, like cutting and pasting mainly . You have far far better FREEWARE alternatives to convert, edit or play audio and video. And that friggin' cover editor. Who uses that thing anyway?
Haven't tried it, but Roxio's package seems to be of very similar value, as those two companies seems to have a little war on who will bloat its suite more with useless cr@p.

 

Dependant on task I use a mixture of

Imgburn
DeepBurner
Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD

 

LMAO, and really true!!!

 

I use CyberLink's PowerDVD(pre-installed) & Power2Go(freebie) for CD's. Had Nero(also pre-installed) but didn't like the "bloat" of it!!!

 

CDBurnerXP Pro - And it does burn DVD's now (note to self)

 

Indeed, I use it all the time for movies, which is always a full DVD and it verifies the burning. Mrkvonic burned hundreds with it.

 

ImageBurn. Very fast, never a problem.
Sonic RecordNow for encoding avi's, etc., to DVD. I just tried Nero for the first time and it took approximately forever compared to Sonic. But Nero, at least, has encoding/decoding options for many other things that Sonic lacks.
And DVD Shrink.

 

- DeepBurner for most common tasks.
- MagicIso for bootable CDs and DVDs, although it took some time for me to figure out, how this program works
- My DVD burner comes with an OEM Package of Cyberlink, which fails always when it comes to important tasks. Consequently, i don't use it.
- CloneDVD sometimes.
- Easy CD Creator 4.02 on my old Notebook. Capable of copying Audio CDs in the original *.cda format, if the CD isn't protected against copying. Glad to have this program, as it seems, most burning software nowadays use only .wma or .mp3 format for audio CDs backup.

 

GnomeBaker or K3b depending upon which box

 

Hi,

K3b is my choice.

Nero when I use Windows.

Take Care,
TheQuest

 

I like the roxio package, less bloaty than nero and still has all the extras in, on my machine... it runs fast, i havnt tried nero 7, i stopped at 6... so might give it a try.

 

I have Roxio Easy Media Creater 9 and also 7.5 for my older compter and works great for me!

Cheers,

TH

 

K3b on Linux box. Nero 6 and CDBurnerXP Pro for Windows XP.

 

I use Nero 6. It does everything I need, so I don't see a reason to upgrade.

 

K3b and cdrecord work well.

 

Yep sorry, I see you already mentioned it some posts ago.
I uninstalled Nero the minute I found it again

 

DropToCD by Sateira.

 

Another Sateria fan. I liked DropToCD so much I went ahead a got Sateria CD&DVD Burner At only 5.4 MB on the hdd, no bloat.

 

1. DVDFab Platinum ...Excellent
2. Ultra ISO ...Nice
3. CDBurner XP V4 ...For Free, Excellent(Only the ver.4 update works w/Vista)
4. DVD Santa ...Also pretty good

I used to use Nero and I really like it, but it tends to crash when trying to enter the advanced mode from the start menu. Not just for me but for others that I've talk to also. I will probably eventually re-install it anyway.

 

I just tried DVDfab Platinum to backup a couple of my DVD movies and on 3 different movies it seemed to be working well until the end when it started 'thrashing' while (what I imagine was) trying to finalize my DVDs! Result: 3 DVD coasters.

 

Well you had at least 3 excellent DVD coasters.

 

Nero 7 Enterprise Always been my favorite going all the way back to 98.

 

I don't know about 'excellent', but compared to CDs they are 'expensive' coasters!

 

personaly i have tried cdburnerxp pro 3.0.116 on
two seperate occaisons and i would never recomend
this software or should i say crapware to anybody
ever

it never seem to work right it froze my system when
i made a attempt to cancel a burning session had to
reboot pc to get my disc from the cd-rom drive

and i have lost data as well while using this piece of
garbage. just because its free doesn't make it good.

 

Yes sometimes certain softwares don't like your system at all.
I use CDBurnerXP Pro all the time and never had any of your problems.
The only thing that doesn't work very well on CDBurnerXP are ISO burnings. It burns them, but the final result doesn't act like the original one. I use Alcohol120% for that purpose.