DVD-Rom 2 DVD-R Burning

[elister]

Im getting my brother a new DVD player, one that supports DVD-R, naturally I plan on burning him a bunch of DVDs of the stuff I get & rip.

Instead of copying the entire disc to the HD for burning, cant I just drag and drop the files in Nero from one Rom to another?

Is that going to be too much a load for the CPU or the IDE channel to handle?

Anyone got this setup?

PS
I am not planning on copying profesionally authored DVDs, but ones ive allready ripped to SVCD and authored via SVCD2DVDMPG+.

[garryheather]

Going to DVD-R from either VideoCD or Super VideoCD will take a bit more work than that if you want to maintain compatibility, even if it's just converting the audio from 44.1KHz to 48K.

Check out the guides to the left and doom9.org for more details.

BTW, copying copies doesn't make it right !

[txpharoah]

cant I just drag and drop the files in Nero from one Rom to another?

No. Never. But you CAN do on-the-fly DVD COPY mode in Nero. That's what you're really asking for. The other method will result in an underrun. What you want, but not how you thought you'd get it.

BTW, copying copies doesn't make it right !

Huh? Does it make it wrong? Or left?

[garryheather]

txpharoah - when I require a duplicate I often to an on the fly copy in Nero by dragging the files across from the ROM drive to the compilation window and then burning. For some reason Nero seems to make the project "grow" if I do an on the fly disc copy (see other posts), but if I select the files from the DVD-ROM drive as if they were on the hard disk, I don't have any problems.

It is feasible that some people would however, but I suspect that most people have a PC with sufficient power behind it to do it PROVIDING:

A. The source disc is clean.
B. The whole disc can be read faster than the recorder is writing (I usually say 2.5x the write speed is the minimum read speed you require)
C. The IDE / SCSI / USB / Firewire combination for the source and target drives can handle the throughput and have been configured adequately.

Of course, if you're writing at 4x speed then you probably will have issues trying to get the data off of a DVD-R since most DVD ROM drives read R's slower than they can read pressed discs.

[elister]

Ok, sounds like it will be a hassle then.

I would end up with a 16x DVD-Rom and burning at 2x DVD-R, even on seperate IDE channels, it sounds like this would risk bad burns every time I attempted this.

Thanks for the input.