Using Nero 6.0 to Copy a Video DVD--6 hour estimate!!!

[solarblast]

I have a non-protected video DVD that I wanted to copy with Nero 6.0. I have one writeable DVD drive. Nero showed it would take 430 minutes, and after 60 minutes was in fact only 15% finished. What's going on there?

[mats.hogberg]

Nero's up to its usual mandatory reencoding business I gather...
To do 1:1 copies of unprotected (and CSS protected) discs, there's nothing that beats DVDDecrypter; ISO Read, ISO Write.

/Mats

[Abbadon]

I have a non-protected video DVD that I wanted to copy with Nero 6.0. I have one writeable DVD drive. Nero showed it would take 430 minutes, and after 60 minutes was in fact only 15% finished. What's going on there?

Maybe you need to reinstall the DMA drivers, or update them to the latest version, is your DVD-burner up to 8x?

[redwudz]

Another thought is 'How big is your DVD?' If it's bigger than 4.37GB, then you can't directly copy it to a DVD-5. You would have to use a dual layer DVD or re-encode or transcode it to fit. In that case, I would use DVD Shrink to reduce the size by transcoding the DVD if you don't want to use a dual layer DVD disc. This should take less than an hour, depending on your system.

[solarblast]

My DVD is a Sony DRU-540A. The lecture on the DVD is probably 90 minutes, possibly longer. Someone elsewhere suggested that the DVD may contain errors and is locked in PIO mode. This is caused by finding errors and moving to lower speeds to recover. It was mentioned the channel (drive?) driver should be re-installed. I'm pretty sure it is capable of 8X operation. A suggestion above also concluded that, so I will try it and look for the latest drivers on the Sony site.

BTW, the burn never got to the point where it would ask for the drive where the burn would take place. In my case, the same drive on which the DVD-R original DVD resides. The viewer just showed the video slowly moving along as the copy/burn took place.

[solarblast]

Note that I tried DVDFab Decrypter, and it failed to get info about the DVD.

According to Sony, only one set of drivers was ever produced. I guess I get to re-install to see if the PIO problem can be corrected.

Checking the DVD properties on drive D shows 4.26G.

[cdubya]

sounds like to me the person you were speaking with was talking about dma not being enable on the channel that your drive is on. the driver they were speaking of is the ide driver which is sometimes easily fixed by just doing a simple uninstall then restarting and letting windows search for the driver and install it automatically. however the otherside of it is in most cases windows will default to the stock windows driver and not the driver specifically written for your motherboard. Did you custom build that system or is it a prebuild out of a chain like best buy or circuit city

[solarblast]

I built the system myself from an ASUS motherboard.

In any case, re-installing the driver solved the problem.

[cdubya]

good to hear ya got 'er working again. you ever have probs w/ nero un-synching the a/v after the burn process? also it's jerky play back on a stand alone player

[solarblast]

I haven't used it enough to observe much about it other than the problem described here. Generally, it works, and may be the only choice for general burning. I'm not sure if this the OEM version I have or the full-up version. It came via Sony with my video camera.

It appears I'm going to need some better knowledge of DVDs than I have. I'm about to print the Nero SmartStart manual. Perhaps it will have a few words on the subject. I happened into a large computer store yesterday on the west coast yesterday, and an older fellow was talking to a clerk about Nero. He had my sympathy.

[mats.hogberg]

Do yourself a favor and forget about Nero for anything besides burning pre-prepared data to CD/DVD.

/Mats

[normcar]

I only use Nero for burning. There are better apps for everything else.

[solarblast]

Played back on my older Panasonic DVD. Only trie done. It doesn't have progressive scan if that matters.

[solarblast]

Only the one. That is, I didn't try it on the other two I copied.