Posted by John on 01/16/88 11:52

Hi. I have a lot of files of my computer that I want to save onto DVD.
They are video files that I have converted to MP4 format to save on
space using Nero Recode. I don't want to burn them as a movie though
that can be played back on a DVD Player. I just want to burn the files
as Data that can be played back on computer. It is also a lot quicker
to burn this way. If I was to burn it as a Video DVD it would take
several hours for Nero to encode and author it, whereas if I burn as
data it only takes a short time, and then I can hopefully open within
my computer.

I just wondered what types of DVD media you would consider to be best
for this? There are quite a lot of different types available now:

DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL etc from many
different companies and with different burn speeds available as well.

Would I always be best buying record once media? I have used Verbatims
DVD-RW and -RW DL media in the past for trying to burn both data discs
and also to author DVD video to using Nero and other applications.

When you want to author your own video DVD it often takes a long time
to do so using Nero and it often failed to burn properly. Perhaps it
is better to use record once DVD discs for this?

It is the same with data, I have probably burned about 3 or 4 discs in
the past of MP4 video files onto DVD-RWs as data, and on one or two of
the discs it has completely successfully but the resulting disc can
not be read in my computer DVD drive.

If I want to save a lot of my files, video files and other files from
my computer to a blank DVD to save space on my hard drive, what type
and brand of discs would you recommend I use? And what options should
I select to burn this sucessfully as a Data/Storage DVD that can be
easily read back on my computer?

I have had great trouble in the past burning DVDs using a variety of
programs.

Thanks

John

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