RageOfVelocity Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Right, so I'm kinda new at this whole thing about downloading movies from the net, but I followed the steps in a good tutorial I found, and everything went fine, I waited a few hours for the torrent thing to finish downloading, and then I used DVD Flick to encode it, and ImgBurn started up automatically, and then everything stopped. I have a Sony dvd+r in the tray, it's new, empty, yet this doesn't seem to be working. I heard that most computers are capable of burning dvds, however is there a way to make sure? Any advice is appreciated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RageOfVelocity Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Oh i forgot the logs... here they are... I 13:33:24 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started! I 13:33:24 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 13:33:24 Total Physical Memory: 2 610 724 KB - Available: 2 031 956 KB I 13:33:24 Initialising SPTI... I 13:33:24 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 13:33:24 Found 1 DVD-ROM/CD-RW! I 14:16:17 Operation Started! I 14:16:17 Building Image Tree... I 14:16:18 Checking Directory Depth... I 14:16:18 Calculating Totals... I 14:16:18 Preparing Image... I 14:16:18 Checking Path Length... I 14:16:18 Contents: 9 Files, 2 Folders I 14:16:18 Content Type: DVD Video I 14:16:18 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 14:16:18 Volume Label: They Live (1988) I 14:16:18 IFO/BUP 32K Padding: Enabled I 14:16:18 Region Code: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8 I 14:16:18 TV System: NTSC I 14:16:18 Size: 4 626 728 960 bytes I 14:16:18 Sectors: 2 259 145 I 14:16:18 Image Size: 4 627 365 888 bytes I 14:16:18 Image Sectors: 2 259 456 I 14:16:18 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RageOfVelocity Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Maybe I need to somehow format the dvd first? o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I 13:33:24 Found 1 DVD-ROM/CD-RW! Your drive can't burn DVDs, it can only read them. It can write CDs though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RageOfVelocity Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Wow. Interesting. I had no idea. How did you know? o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Because it says it right there in the log If you had a DVD writer it would say something like... I 14:07:08 Found 1 DVD±RW! The log entry tells us the basic capabilities of the installed drive. Yours shows up as DVD-ROM/CD-RW meaning it can read DVD-ROM discs and write CDs. Other options could include BD-ROM/DVD±RW meaning it can read BD discs and write DVDs (and CDs because they always do). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RageOfVelocity Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Ah cool. so is there any way to figure out if a PC is able to write on DVDs *before* i spend a couple of hours downloading stuff? -.- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 erm yeah, look for what I just told you in the ImgBurn log. Or find the make/model of the optical drive in the machine and Google for its specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianymaty Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 How about puting ImgBurn in Read mode, right click on drive and choose Capabilities... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 lol yeah, or that! ( ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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