problem with new burning computer

[onewaypockets]

Hi,

It's been quite a while since I posted here. My computer is working great, but my father in-law just bought a new computer. He bought everything on my recomendations...so I feel very responsible here!

Briefly here is the setup. Intel 3.4ghz, Western Digital 200g, Corsair 1g memory, Sony DVD-Rom DDU 1613, and Sony DVD-RWDW-D22A. Nice setup, not short of speed, memory, or hard drive.

I can rip discs with this new computer just fine (very fast!) to the hard drive using DVD Shrink and play them back on the computer. I can also put one DVD in the Rom drive and have it copy over to the DVD-RW drive using NTI DVD Maker Platinum (also very fast).

The problem comes in trying to burn DVD movies previously ripped on the hard drive back onto blanks on the DVD-RW drive (also using NTI DVD Maker Platinum). I get the following message "Data Buffer Underrun Error". I tried to reduce the speed to 4x (the slowest selection) and am also using the very best Taiyo Yuden discs.

As near as I can see the recording process NEVER STARTS at all...it never leaves "0 percent" and no data is written to the disc at all.

Do I have some setting I have neglected or something I can checkout? I have checked a box in the NTI software saying "Enable Buffer Underrun Protection".

Any thoughts are sincerely appreciated and will improve my stake with my father-in-law. Please don't post "try Nero"...I already love NTI burning software, it works fine at my house and it is working here on the disc-to-disc burn, just not the hard drive to disc.

[bazooka]

The NTI burning software only allows you to burn data dvd's.

You would need to use software that made video dvd's.

That burner might not be supported by NTI.

I know because I have a copy of NTI Cd-maker version 6 and even after the upgrade to version 6.7, you can still only burn data dvd's.

I switched to Nero and don't have any problems.

[onewaypockets]

I have burnt over 400 DVD's with my NTI DVD Maker Platinum....so this is not true. It burns DVD movies, DVD data, CD music, and CD data and has full settings for all of these.

[bazooka]

Whatever

[jdizzy40]

Bazzoka: Please don't be rude to folks. If your Mom has grounded you from going outside, it's not our fault! :P

[onewaypockets]

Whatever

Yup...whatever is right.

I guess it never occured to you that NTI might make different products. You have the CD Maker and I have the DVD Maker. No wonder your CD Maker cannot make DVD's!!!!

So whatever. I knew I would get the "duh....did you try Nero?" even though I said not to bother with those remarks.

If anyone truely has a setting or something else I can try with my "buffer underrun" I would appreciate it.

[bazooka]

Bazzoka: Please don't be rude to folks. If your Mom has grounded you from going outside, it's not our fault! :P

I was not being rude.

It is words on a screen.

The word whatever is not rude. :P

[bazooka]

Whatever

Yup...whatever is right.

I guess it never occured to you that NTI might make different products. You have the CD Maker and I have the DVD Maker. No wonder your CD Maker cannot make DVD's!!!!

So whatever. I knew I would get the "duh....did you try Nero?" even though I said not to bother with those remarks.

If anyone truely has a setting or something else I can try with my "buffer underrun" I would appreciate it.

You need to chill out.

Cd-maker also makes dvd's but you have to buy the dvd-video plugin, otherwise you can only make data dvd's.

You might try dvddecrypter. It has it's own burning engine.

[lordsmurf]

NTI is terrible software. Read my reviews in the reviews section. NTI is like a virus at best.

[onewaypockets]

NTI is terrible software. Read my reviews in the reviews section. NTI is like a virus at best.

I was hoping not to debate the relative merits of this software. I have burned over 400 movies with FANTASTIC results with NTI DVD Maker Platinum at home. My sister on her setup has done 200 with NTI, and another friend about the same. I have also burned about 200 CD's for thrasher discs with equally FANTASTIC results

For the record, I had TERRIBLE results with Nero and BurnAtOnce (incomplete burns). That is why I tried NTI. I have had no "virus" problems. I continusely run AVG, Ad-aware, and Zonealarm and there is not even a freckle of a problem in this regard.

Might there be a setting for this new computer to try out to get it working, or???

[bazooka]

NTI is terrible software. Read my reviews in the reviews section. NTI is like a virus at best.

I was hoping not to debate the relative merits of this software. I have burned over 400 movies with FANTASTIC results with NTI DVD Maker Platinum at home. My sister on her setup has done 200 with NTI, and another friend about the same. I have also burned about 200 CD's for thrasher discs with equally FANTASTIC results

For the record, I had TERRIBLE results with Nero and BurnAtOnce (incomplete burns). That is why I tried NTI. I have had no "virus" problems. I continusely run AVG, Ad-aware, and Zonealarm and there is not even a freckle of a problem in this regard.

Might there be a setting for this new computer to try out to get it working, or???

You might have better luck at NTI's website.

[bugster]

As Bazooka suggested, try DVDDecrypter to burn. It only burns ISO images. You can create these from your VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS directories using ImgTools Classic. Both are freeware, so no expense is involved.

As to NTI, never used it, but are you sure it supports that drive for DVD-video.

[glockjs]

blah blah back and forth. try different software and let us know how it goes

[sacajaweeda]

If you really want to impress your father-in-law, try giving him his money back for the NTI software and hooking him up with a download link for DVDDecrypter & ImgTools. Maybe even tell him where you learned about this stuff and send him the link to this forum, too.

FWIW- I personally have no interest in software you have to pay for like NTI's when there are other apps out there that are either freeware or come bundled with your hardware that do just as good or an even better job.

MY $.02

[alsyed]

If you really want to impress your father-in-law, try giving him his money back for the NTI software and hooking him up with a download link for DVDDecrypter & ImgTools.

man, do i 2nd that commnets, both those tools i switched to about 4 weeks ago after 7 straight coasters with the new nero upgrade.

with image burning using dvd decryptor, can use full 8x setting on my burner, and i haven't had a coaster now out of 54 discs in 4 weeks.

[mats.hogberg]

ImgTools/DVDDecrypter 10.476 - Nero nil

/Mats

[lordsmurf]

NTI is terrible software. Read my reviews in the reviews section. NTI is like a virus at best.

I have had no "virus" problems. I continusely run AVG, Ad-aware, and Zonealarm and there is not even a freckle of a problem in this regard.

I don't think you understood me.

[free is better]

I won't get into the merits of your software. perhaps the problem is with your hardware configuration. do you have your operating system drive and your burner on the same ide channel ? Having them on separate channels allows the cpu to process the information at maximum allowable efficiency.

[onewaypockets]

I apprecitate all the sincere comments, especially from "free is better" and "bugster".

I did end up getting things to work perfectly using "DVD Shrink" and setting the "DVD Decripter" to come on automatically. Father in law is a different story...still coaching him. I got three phone calls from him this morning!

This combo of programs works out great, he only has to really use one program (since the other opens automaticlly}.

Thanks again...