Home-made dvd duplicator

[nemethmik]

I'd like to build a home made DVD duplicator using 4 inexpensive Pioneer DVR-104 drives and a PC tower that has enough drive bays. My question is, what piece of software (Nero, RecordNow Max, etc) can handle duplicationg a master DVD with multiple DVD burners simultaniously?

[kitty]

Dream on - unless you plan to copy only movies < 4.3GB or will use a proggie like ReMPEG to lower bitrates you can't fit movies > 4.3GB onto a DVD-R.

Plus current rip programs don't seem to be automated to the level you expect unless you write it yourself.

Best DVD duplication method: Xerox machine.

[THE RIPPER]

i believe nero supports multiple recorders fpr duplicating.

[nemethmik]

unless you plan to copy only movies < 4.3GB

I create videoshots of football matches and I have to produce 10 DVD-R's per week to be distributed to our staff.

[GenkaNT]

With Nero 5.5.9.9 you'll be fine.

[CaptainStupid]

Nero 5 and up (at least) has a checkbox for "Use multiple recorders."

[Tearren]

Hello!

I don't know the cost to build what you want to make, but you may want to consider the following...

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.asp?RelatedID=2800


Good Luck!

Tearren

[disturbed1]

Veritas DVD recorders (Stomp's Record Now Max, Prassi Primo DVD) support multiple recorders.

Veritas also has correct UDF formating for DVD-Video, and it's the software shipped with Pioneer's drives.

Make sure your comp can process the info fast enough to record to 4 drives at the same time. 4 DVD @ 1x is about 6mb/s sustained for an hour to record a full DVD-R. Most modern comps can do this without a sweat.

Each drive should be on it's own IDE channel, not daisy chained slave/master on the same channel. So you'd need at least 4 channels (connections for 8 drives). Use your mobo's built in two, and you could pick up a promise card for ~$40 to add the other channels that are needed.

Don't cheap out on cooling, that much burning will generate alot of heat.

[nemethmik]

I don't know the cost to build what you want to make, but you may want to consider the following...
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.asp?RelatedID=2800

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately that news is marketing B.S. and has nothing to do with the reality.
What I'm going to do is buy 5 Pioneer DVR-104 units, install them into a 6-bay server tower box, Dazzle Mpeg2 capture card (Dazzle's Digital Video Creator II), Ulead DVD Factory, Nero, XP Home; the entire system costs around $2000.
Any idea?

[nemethmik]

Veritas DVD recorders (Stomp's Record Now Max, Prassi Primo DVD) support multiple recorders.

Thanks a lot disturbed1 for your comments. You are a guy who makes such a forum to be of great value.

[disturbed1]

Thanks for the kind words.

Make sure you visit here for all your DVC II needs.

If this is your dedicated burning/authoring station you can save a few $$ buying a slower CPU since the DVC II works fine with a 500mhz. Plus burning and authoring isn't that CPU dependant. Transtitions can chew the CPU cycles though. A rock solid mobo is better than the fastest CPU that BSD's every hour.

DVD factory is OK, but you might want to go ahead and splurge for Media Studio (Pro) because of it's editing features since you'll be using home brewed video footage. Dazzle's Movie Star app isn't exactly a joy to use.

You could get by with just the DVC II's software package which includes Movie Star, Sonic's DVDit! SE (PCM audio only for NTSC since mpeg audio isn't a DVD standard except for PAL), Smart Sound, and Media Matics DVD player if your brave