What am I doing wrong with Nero?

I've looked in all the details buttons, settings, configurations, and burning/recording options and I've never seen anything like a 'new compilation' window anywhere.

However, with all the time I've actually played with this deluxe version of Nero, I never realized that I have been messing with Nero Express and not Nero Burning ROM.......which is exactly where I found what you were talking about.

The only shortcut that ever came up during the installation was the Express icon and it wasn't until I went into Start/Programs/Nero just now that I spotted a WHOLE NEW burning program that I just didn't know even existed. Even reading the damn instruction manual previously to 'trouble shoot' didn't 'light the dawn' for me.

I'm a duhhhh.....and will play with the NEW program that you helped me discover and see if Express has been the problem all along.

I'm not sure if I have to go to Ahead and get a free update for this program or not because when I went to open it, I got a message that my version isn't compatible with XP and to head to their site. If it's free to update it, no problem, but I'm not paying again for something that's taken me a year to never burn anything with......until you came along to possibly help me realize this.

TONI

Nero 5.0 and 6.0 are compatible with XP. Frankly I don't know why Ahead bothers with Express and I have Nero 5.0 which is a good program for all data classes of copying and have never used Express.

Did you get it working? I had all kinds of problems when
I finally switched to XP Home concerning Nero. Burned stacks of coasters. Only had 1 in the 3 years before that. I finally jumped through a lot of hoops to get it working. Nero was totally mute. The short answer is: Totally uninstall Nero, reinstall your OEM Nero, then the latest update-6.6.0.16-no other updates in between. That is the only one that is totally compatible with XP. I reformatted and reinstalled XP before doing this for other reasons (changing hard drives). I only installed the first 2 parts of the OEM (6.3.17) and the update. Those would Burning Rom and Vision Express. Anyone who even installs a packet burning program like InCd or DirectCd gets no sympathy from me. I use Express and it works like a champ(like it always has before). DVDShrink is now working correctly again, too. Thanks for all the help in the past. chuck

According to help......avi files are only going to be seen by Nero as VCD/SVCD types. However, each one would have to be edited to manually remove beginning menus and ending credits for the vcr types I have in order to have them fit on the cd, and even that's a maybe. Using the burning ROM program, it won't recognize the format .avi at all so that's useless.

Again tried using Express...but instead of a direct burn tried to create an ISO type or VOB file project and again got the error that my NTFS drive of 85GB ran out of room when I had supposedly about ten minutes to go. Tried to create a project to that drive thinking burning ROM would then be able to burn it since it won't see an .avi file to burn it to DVD instead of VCD/SVCD.

Went through the process of trying to burn it as a VCD/SVCD file in the burning ROM program instead.....got through all the setup/configuration crap, including unchecking 'write to drive cache' thing mentioned above by somebody else under MISC, and as soon as I chose the darn .avi file from the folder, got a message 'unexpected format' or 'unexpected file type'.

What a freaking joke.......I'm outta here.....Nero will sit and gather dust on the shelf. I'm back to EZCD 6 Platinum and will try the demo of DVDSanta after uninstalling this monied wasted piece of crap.

TONI

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even VCD/SVCD .avi files.......so it does it all.

Neato.........

TONI

Snatch them up and save themselves a lot of work.

Bob

I kept this text file for the error when asked if I wanted to save it. Even though this error is vague enough to say 'no room on the disk' it doesn't identify which disk......the dvd disk or the harddrive partition. It's almost immediately after this error though that windows pops up with a balloon in the taskbar letting me know that the K: drive (the NTFS partition) is out of space and I should delete files on it to make more room....so I have been under the assumption all along that the Nero error is also referring to that partition. If anybody can make heads or tails out of following, I would appreciate at least being able to understand what kept happening with Nero's program that I never encounter with EZCD or DVDSanta (which works better than EZCD even did since many times I was forced to split my .avi files in half in order to fit the movies on two disks instead of one; whereas DVDSanta had no issues with this area and got each .avi file onto one disk every time I've used it since yesterday).

##########################################################################################
ERROR:
cause: 58 (disk_full)
source: _VOBS
description: There is not enough space on the disk.


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DumpExceptionInformation(): Caught SEH Exception 0xe06d7363 during encoding
DumpExceptionInformation(): Exception was raised from C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll at RVA 0x0001eb33

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ERROR:
cause: 128 (nmc_processing_exception)
source: _VOBS:oGuardedProcessing ()
description: Exception during encoding
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***END: _VOBS - Process VOB
***END: _VOBS - Process Create
***END: _DVDBase - Create VTS
DVDENGINE exception caught.
***END: DVDVideoSessionImpl - GetDiscContent
***BEGIN: DVDSessionBase - RegisterCallback
...Session callback unregistered...
***END: DVDSessionBase - RegisterCallback

TONI