Posted by Terry Pinnell on 10/07/05 13:12

Frank <frank@nojunkmail.humanvalues.net> wrote:

>BTW, you forgot a very important item in your list, one which Anthony
>mentioned and which I have mentioned to you as well, and that's
>whether, when you use a given disc for the very first time, you start
>off in multi-session mode. I would strongly recommend that when
>burning a DVD-Video format disc you always do it as a single session
>disc - which may be the only available option anyway, but if not I
>recommend that it's that one you choose. Only if you're burning a
>DVD-ROM (data) formatted disc should you even consider use of
>multi-session and even then, once you're reached the point when you
>know that you'll never be adding additional files to the disc, you
>should close/finalize the disc.
>
>As Anthony mentions above, some software - and this includes Windows
>Explorer - will only see the first or the last session on a
>multi-session disc and not any of the files written to the disc during
>other recording sessions, so multi-session discs should generally be
>used with care.

Thanks, understood. And as you probably saw from my earlier reply,
I've now located the NX option to ensure single session.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

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