BURNING DVDs while on the net/printing ,etc

[robreed]

This may be a stupid question.
I am using nero to burn DVDs onto sa PIONEER A04.
I have a 1700 Athlon.Can I do things in the backgound when burning(
Email/net/printing).
Will it effect picture,stability,etc.

Thanks
ROB

[necrochain]

It may depends on how fast the processor is takin the video and burnin it.

Just to be safe though i wouldn't do stuff while burnin cuz dvds i know cost alot of money it would suck if you made a coaster and had to throw it away. But nero is pretty safe when burnin if you want to do stuff on the machine make sure Burn Proof is enabled if nero has that feature not sure cuz i haven't used nero for months

Hope this helped you

[ilscuro]

as long as burnproof is enabled you should be ok
i surf the net, use kazaa, and have an egg butty while burning and have never had any trouble

[Stoddo2k]

I have tested this a lot with CD burning. My results are that as long as you have a burner with buffer underrun protection it can be very difficult to make a coaster. I have played online video games, ran a bazillions tray apps, virus scanning, and cd burning and still no coaster. Its almost disappointing but I never burned a coaster nor ever noticed a single visual or audible artifact on loads of VCD or SVCD disks.

[thxkid]

I do what I want on my computer and I have a burner without burn proof, though mine has a 8 meg buffer which is 4x the size of most of the burn proof burners out there I nver make coasters either and I use WIN98SE also. That includes while burning, printing, Encoding with TMPGE and downloading from WINMX with Zonealarm Firewall on. Then again thats using a CD-RW Burner not a DVD burner, my blanks cost 1/10th the price of a DVD blank also.