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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 08/16/07 23:29
On 8/15/2007, Steve posted this:
> Gene E. Bloch <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> I'm a bit of a noob on this stuff. Downloaded the file from
>>>>> http://www.tvblink.com/i_down.html
>>>>> Burned the ISO file to DVD-R using Roxio Easy Media Creator 9, then
>>>>> finalized the disc. But my Pioneer player doesn't recognize it, won't
>>>>> play. Using same DVD-R that I've used many times to copy from the
>>>>> DVR, no problems playing these in the Pioneer. But I've never tried a
>>>>> downloaded file like this. Am I maybe missing a step somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> Did you burn the iso image to the disk using image copy, or as a file?
>>>> Only treating the iso as a source image for a disk-to-disk copy (which
>>>> is what image copy means) will work. Copying it as a file does not
>>>> create a true DVD, only a DVD with a file on it.
>>>
>>> Thanks Gene. I think I used the "burn image to disc" option. The other
>>> option is "copy disc" but then EMC is looking in the DVD-ROM drive for
>>> the source image, with no option to look on the hard drive. Guess I'm
>>> still missing something...
>>
>> Well, you *are* a bit inconsistent.
>>
>> You said that you burned the image to the disk and then finalized the
>> disk. If you actually burned it as disk image to the DVD as I
>> described, finalizing would *not* be an option - the image itself is
>> already finalized.
>> Typically (meaning within my experience :-)), to burn an image to disk,
>> you have to go to the option for setting the source drive, and set it
>> to a disk image instead of a physical drive. Then you can select the
>> image to copy it to DVD *as an image*. I can't point you to where this
>> is, since I have no familiarity with Roxio.
>> I *can* tell you that the interface design of the CD/DVD programs I
>> have used is uniformly confusing.
>
> You're right about the interface, it's pretty confusing. Just tried it
> again, and it seems to have worked this time. Not sure what happened
> the first time. But thanks for your help!
Computers - ain't they fun?
I'd guess that in the fog of Roxio, you copied it to the first disc as
a file. Here's how to determine this: put the DVD in your computer
drive and look at it with Windows Explorer. If you see the usual
VIDEO_TS folder structure, I'm wrong and it's a mystery (bad disc? burn
error? etc). If you see only a (very large) file called whatever.iso,
I'm right and it's another mystery: "How did I make that error?" :-)
Glad you've got it sorted.
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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