Nero alternative for DVD Shrink burn engine?

FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
edited February 2006 in Science & Tech
So for some strange reason Nero locks my machine up when I burn DVDs. All other DVD burning apps work fine (Alcohol, Roxio, CloneDVD, etc).

MY Burner is a Lite-on LDW-811S. (according to winxp device manager.)

I have tried everything to remedy this problem. Whats strange is if i uninstall it, and install a different version it will work for a few days, and then out of the blue it will start locking up again. :scratch:

I have alternatives for all other dvd writing tasks, but I really like dvd shrink a lot.

Does anyone know of a way to use an alternative burning engine with dvd shrink?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Comments

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited April 2005
    Maybe I'm misunderstanding your post, but why not try using DVDShrink itself? Could be that Nero is messing with the engine, or has a faulty version of it. Unless you're saying that no matter what, it's the actual engine that's doing it, and not just Nero's version...
  • scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    FF

    I have had lots of trouble with Nero, if Roxio was on the same machine. They don't seem to play well together. And yes Shrink and Nero are awesome !

    Entropy
    DVD Shrink does not have its own burn engine. It integrates with Nero

    Scott
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited April 2005
    Doesnt DVDShrink use the Nero engine? It requires Nero to be installed to use the actual disc writing capabilities I think.

    And the lock ups happen when I burn DVDs using either one. and no other DVD writing software locks up. So Im pretty certain its the Nero engine that is causing the lock ups.


    Scott, Do you know of any other apps Nero doesnt play well with?
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited April 2005
    Ah ok. I thought you were saying Nero was using DVD Shrink, not the other way around.
  • scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Right now all I have on my machine is DVD Shrink and Nero. I had put Roxio on and nero started making coasters and locking up. I took roxio off and nero started working again. I am currently using V.3.1 of DVDShrink and Nero 6.3 and all is happy. I used to use another burn engine ( Pattin-Couffin ) I think, and nero did not like that either.

    The reason Nero works so well with DVDShrink is the ability to put a blank in the burner and a movie in the ROM tell it go and come back later , all done. I do not think any other burn software "Integrates" like that with Shrink.

    Scott
  • rocket9244rocket9244 nebraska,usa
    edited February 2006
    is your puter over heating??..i had same prob..computer freezes while burning/compressing...i sprayed out my cpu fan and the whole case with compressed air..it went from 80 degrees down to 50...no probs since..
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