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  1. Hi!
    I have experienced a bug in Recordnow Max 4.5. I discovered when wanting to burn an image at 1x speed. I actually have discs that can be recorded at 2x, but my DVD player(SV-DVD1E) has problems reading discs recorded in 2x speed.
    I went for the image burn in recordnow max, and chose the image. Then I chose 1x burn speed, and hit write. Guess what happened? Still writing in 2x, and I won't be able to use the disc...
    Also when you write directly from VIDEO_TS folder you aren't even able to chose the recording speed, so it choses the fastest, wich is 2x.
    Anyone else experienced this?
    Anyone knows how to get rid of it?
    I wanna be bigger, stronger, drive a faster car...
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  2. I just download an update to the Recordnow DX 4.56 that updates to 4.6. Is their and update for the Recordnow Max also. I am going to install it in a few minutes and try it.
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  3. dun4cheap, Could you please compare RecordNow DX and RecordNow Max when you are done ? I was always wondering what is difference between them.

    Bulten, use RecordNow DX. There is an option to force it to 1x speed. Go to Tools / Options / General
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  4. Thanx donpedro!

    Is Recordnow DX the program that comes with the drive? Or where do I get Recordnow DX ? Force it to burn in 1x is what I want to do, (I don't want to burn more "coasters" ). Hope you can help me with this one.
    Thanx!
    I wanna be bigger, stronger, drive a faster car...
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  5. ah, thanx again!

    Though I don't trust Recordnow anymore. The exact same option (force to record @ 1x was in Stomp Recordnow MAX 4.5, and I actually checked that in that version. I haven't tried Recordnow DX yet, maybe because it feels like it will give me another coaster, so maybe I don't dare. If anyone has tested this and canconfirm that this works, that would be most welcome. Until then, I recommend you to use Recordnow with care if you want to burn 1x on 2x media.
    I wanna be bigger, stronger, drive a faster car...
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  6. I have adjusted the burning speed from 2x to 1x as described with Recordnow DX 4.56 and it worked fine. I know it worked because the recording time increased greatly.
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  7. rma155, how exactly did you do it?
    Is it the thing under tools/options/general or is there anything else to do?
    Thank you!
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  8. Bulten, I now have updated to RecordNow DX 4.6 (not much different). To change speed you select Data at the top row of icons ( i.e., your choices are wizard, copy, image, data, audio, mixed-mode, video CD). You should find a speed menu in the window that opens.
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  9. Originally Posted by rma155
    Bulten, I now have updated to RecordNow DX 4.6
    Where did you get the update? The update on the sony site is for 4.56.
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    I am a RecordNow licensed user. Bought it stupidly after readings CNET reviews.
    It sucks !!

    For example, in 4.5 they claim to do video, BUT .... they don't say, until you try it, that it is only VCD. It it doesn't do it well at that.

    I've had it stop in the middle of burning for some choice coasters, then I move to other burners and it works fine.

    Tech support stinks and in their forum, they pick and choose what they will post.

    Tech support stinks.

    No CD label print program, nor does it allow you at least creat a playlist to take to a label print program.

    I recently tried it for backups to create ISO files. Big mistake, it messed up and created a bunch of coasters. This was after the one good guy who helps people and is the moderator gave me instructions which are non-documented. Made some coasters there, then I received a list of undocumented error codes, so I can figure stuff out next time.

    It has a great interface for beginners and it is very good on entry and modification of CD text. Other than that, it has to be used "very gingerly", try to do only very easy, standard types of things.

    I have no idea who CNET has it as the editors choice. It is the most limited of ANY of the burn programs that are out there.
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  11. jolo, RecordNow DX burns DVD. I've done over 50 and it's very easy with the wizard. It comes bundled with the SONY DVD burner drives (no coasters).

    Bulten, in the full program window, the 4.6 update is found under Help>"Technical Support on the web" (it takes you to Easy Systems, the Japanese site that distributes RecordNow DX for the Sony drives, but you can choose english). By the way, you close the wizard window and the full program window is behind it. The wizard window always opens when you launch the program.
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  12. Thanx rma155!
    I actually read the manual this time, and found that link, and I now have Recordnow DX 4.6. Looks the same as Recordnow MAX 4.5, but anyway. Will try the speed menu soon, hope this works better than just chosing 1x speed when burning image.

    @friley
    Do as rma155 told in his last post and click on "technical support on the web", in the Recordnow wizard.
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  13. Originally Posted by rma155
    Bulten, in the full program window, the 4.6 update is found under Help>"Technical Support on the web" (it takes you to Easy Systems, the Japanese site that distributes RecordNow DX for the Sony drives, but you can choose english). By the way, you close the wizard window and the full program window is behind it. The wizard window always opens when you launch the program.
    The link is http://www.easy.co.jp/jrndx45/sonyos/ but right now the site doesn't seem to be up
    Panasonic DMR-ES45VS, keep those discs a burnin'
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  14. Originally Posted by rma155
    Bulten, in the full program window, the 4.6 update is found under Help>"Technical Support on the web" (it takes you to Easy Systems, the Japanese site that distributes RecordNow DX for the Sony drives, but you can choose english).
    Thanks!

    Originally Posted by rma155
    By the way, you close the wizard window and the full program window is behind it. The wizard window always opens when you launch the program.
    You can turn off the wizard in Tools->Options->General, then uncheck the box at the bottom.
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  15. Bought my DRU-500A two weeks ago and having nothing but trouble with RecordNow!

    First, it wouldn't burn VIDEO_TS folder at all, even with file size under 4G (someone has the same problem).

    Second, it freezes all the time and I had to reboot.

    Then my Windows 2000 Pro won't start and I ended up reformat my hard drive and re-install everything (Windows 2000 repair and Safe Mode didn't work). Luckily I was able to use my other machine to hookup my hard drive as slave and retrieved my data.

    Now with all new installation and clean registry the damn RecordNow still freezes!!! Anyone had this problem? Well, at least it burns VIDEO_TS folder now, if it didn't freeze on me. But after it's done burning and you hit "Done", it freezes again!!!!

    XP 2000, 512MB, 60G.
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  16. Did you do the firware upgrade to 1.0f? That may help.
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  17. I did update the 1.0f firmware prior to do any recording. I even went on Veritas' Europe web site and downloaded the PX Engine. I wonder if I need to update previous firmwares? But where can I find them?
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  18. I have confirmed this bug in RecordNow Max 4.5.

    Don't confuse this with RecordNow DX which comes with the Sony drive.

    With RecordNow Max 4.5, it was still recording my Accu cheapi DVDRs at 2x even though I selected 1x in the menus AND selected 1x at the top of the project screen, AND it was showing 1X in the "write dialalog" just before burning starts. ALSO, when doing a "test", it would do 1X. HOWEVER, when going through the same steps to do the actual burning, it would start off indicating 1x, showing about 60 minutes of remaining burning time, but after about 1 or 2 minutes, it suddenly dropped to about 30 minutes, clearly burning at 2x, and producing a disk that plays about 35 out of 50 chapters on any standalone. My workaround was to use Nero UDF/ISO UDF 1.02 set to 1x, and it actually burned at 1x, and the disk works perfectly on standalones.

    I have not tried to use RecordNow DX since I already have RecordNow Max which had been working wonderfully until I found this bug and produced a couple coasters. It looks like I should give RecordNow DX a try, and see if it has this same bug. The posters here indicate the forced 1x works in DX, too bad it doesn't work in MAX.
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  19. I have since given up on RecordNow. I downloaded RecordNow DX and that will freeze, too.

    I've been reading another lead and finally downloaded Nero 5.5.10 and unstalled RecordNow. Used Nero burnt xXx using UDF/IFO mode and drag and drop the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders in there and burn, it came out perfectly!
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  20. very interesting how people are having all kinds of problems with this so called "bug" in RecordNowMax. I have burned about 24 DVD's...many of them inexpensive ACCU's which are LEAD DATA AND SONY and have yet to have a single coaster. Each and every one of those disks were burned at 2x. Sounds like some people need to get a real standalone DVD PLAYER. How many people have this problem on their DVD ROM drive? I would doubt many if any.
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  21. You should follow this post, you'll be more surprise....

    http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=437364#437364
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  22. Originally Posted by defense
    very interesting how people are having all kinds of problems with this so called "bug" in RecordNowMax. I have burned about 24 DVD's...many of them inexpensive ACCU's which are LEAD DATA AND SONY and have yet to have a single coaster. Each and every one of those disks were burned at 2x. Sounds like some people need to get a real standalone DVD PLAYER. How many people have this problem on their DVD ROM drive? I would doubt many if any.
    Come on defense... don't accuse my 3 different brand DVD players as not real. In my case ACCU that seller sent me were not playable when burned at 2x speed. There is definitly problem with some ACCU disks that can't be correctly burned at 2x speed. So if I choose 1x speed and it still burns 2x than I call that bug too and it ruins my DVD's. OK ?

    BTW... I can burn them at 1x speed in RecordNow DX. I don't have RecordNow MAX to test it (and not planing to).
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  23. @donpedro, then the problem is with your "disks," not RecordNow Max. Take a look at some of the NERO bugs, and how many HUNDREDS of people are through with NERO. If you and others consider the 1x burning speed issue a bug, then you have to explain to me why MOST multiformat DVD players and a good variety of blank DVD media can burn at 2x without any problems? If you look at the "bugs" with ALL of Nero's versions, they are problems on ANY type of disk or standalone. Try to use the DVD VIDEO option in NERO in version 5.5.10 and see how many standalone players you need to try it in for it to work. RecordNow Max doesn't pay me, so I could care less about other people's opinions, because the proof is in the pudding. Being that I was FORTUNATE apparently, with my order of ACCU's, I personally would want to burn them all at 2x anyway. Especially since there is no noticeable difference between my burned disks and the original movies. Some of the movies I have done as well are the longest you can get. To name a few, Castaway, Gladiator, LOTR, and the longest one I have seen to date..."TITANIC." Each of these movies burns flawlessly from beginning to end with no problems at all using RNM and "inexpensive" ACCU's which are lead data and Sony. People need to do what works for them. I will continue to do what works for me, and BOYYYY had it worked!
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  24. Originally Posted by defense
    @donpedro, then the problem is with your "disks,"
    You are correct.
    Originally Posted by defense
    ... not RecordNow Max.
    You are wrong here. If I tell program to burn at 1x at it does not burn at 1x but 2x, then it is fault and it is bug. (BTW I don't have this problem with RecordNow DX)
    Originally Posted by defense
    Take a look at some of the NERO bugs...
    This is not about Nero. It is about RecordNow MAX. I agree with you on problems with Nero but that does not mean that RecordNow doesn't have any.
    Originally Posted by defense
    I personally would want to burn them all at 2x anyway.
    Me to, but my disks are buggy.
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  25. All... Sony will come out with firmware 1.0g that will fix this problem. Look for it in a few days.
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  26. somte?

    somte wrote:
    All... Sony will come out with firmware 1.0g that will fix this problem. Look for it in a few days.
    Exactly what will if fix? Will it make ACCU disks burn properly in 2x, or will it fix the force 1x speed bug (assuming that you mean this is because of the burner).
    Doubt I will install 1.0g anyway, the burner is working perfectly with 1.0f, so I don't see a reason why I should update the firmware, I only see the possibility of other problems coming up.
    I wanna be bigger, stronger, drive a faster car...
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  27. 1x vs 2x burning issue is either software bug or user error, definitely not hardware issue.
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  28. 1x vs 2x burning issue is either software bug or user error, definitely not hardware issue.

    @Donpedro, you were so adament that it was a software bug that was causing this 1x/2x bug/error. Are you revoking your statement? I have yet to see, (and believe me I am waiting) a single legitimate bug with RecordNowMax.
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