I have had it – I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to burn a simple f***ing DVD on my computer. Roxio and Nero and all the other DVD burning software that I have tried for Windows just suck and I've burnt more coasters than.. Ok. Can't think of a smart or funny analogy here but I've burnt a lot of coasters.
Since we've had our daughter, my wife and I have been putting our digital camcorder to good use. I typically capture the movies to my computer before burning them onto a DVD with titles, transitions, pictures and music. I typically use Roxio to burn my DVD and the results are usually hit or miss. After installation, Roxio works fine for a few days or weeks and then just starts burning coasters. So I'll download Nero and try that and that may work fine for a few weeks before it goes into coaster mode. Usually a simple uninstall and a reinstall fixes the problem with Roxio but that is such a hassle. There are times when that doesn't work and the typical answer from Roxio support is to rebuild my machine. F*** you – Fix your software so that it works and doesn't require me to rebuild my machine. In Roxio's defense, I install any piece of software I can find that seems interesting. I do download a lot of software from any development tool, add-on to utility programs and I must be clobbering something but this is just garbage. Why can't a program protect its own DLL's or registry settings or whatever is breaking this
My burner machine configuration is a DELL Pentium 4 (ancient) 2 GHz machine with 1 GB of RAM, Windows XP SP2 and an external USB 2.0 Plextor PX-708UF DVD burner. I own Roxio v7.0 and don't want to upgrade to v8.0 as I may be facing the same issues. This is enough of a hassle to make me want to buy a MAC. Now that Macs are running a real processor with some performance, it might be worth checking out one of those shiny new MacBook Pros. And if I can run OS X and Vista on the same laptop, that's a pretty good deal. If only Apple made a Tablet!
Is there any other software out there that will let me burn a DVD without these hassles? There has to be an alternative to this nightmare scenario. If you have a solution that's working for me, please drop me a line or comment below.
Roxio, Nero, Windows+xp, dvd, software, mac, osx, macbook
{ 28 comments }
← Previous Comments
Nero Trail worked perfect for me. I was burning VCD's.. However Trail Version is over.
Can I delete and re-install it again?
or will it leave something in my to know i downloaded it before?.
I also came across your site searching for nero and roxio alternatives. There has to be a decent lightweight program that can do the basic tasks fo burning cds.
Die Roxio, die!!!
I am paranoid about losing my digital photos. When we travel, I take a lot of pictures. I take my laptop with me so that I can download my pictures at the end of the day. Having had a computer stolen in the train station in Brussels, I am also paranoid about losing the computer with all of my pictures on it. Therefore, I dutifully make a backup copy of my pictures. In the past, I have used a thumb drives, but that gets to be a bit cumbersome. Therefore in this trip, I decided to burn CDs using Roxio. BIG mistake. After the first day, when I tried to backup the pictures, Roxio went berserk. It deleted the photos – totally! I attempted to recover them using at least 6 different recovery packages. None of them could find traces of the files!
In addition, it appears that Roxio is the cause of the power save function no longer working on my laptop.
I hate Roxio! I hate Sonic!
I am now on a quest to find a good alternative.
Nero should be completely disabled during install except maybe just the Data Burning software which is f'ed ^ on Vista.
Vista burns .ini file to disk in mastered mode f'ed ^ more DVD burns that wont play then I care to admit.
Roxio was my only hope, so now pissed about what I'm reading here.
Vista also reports bogus graphics card trying to burn DVD with yet another unusable half-app, but it's not the apps fault it's the lame legacy 'Foundation' [an F word also ripped off from Apple smart people], or sketched shells of an OS that are only full filled by complaints ([need I mention Direct X sound control as a perfect example - it has all commands but only play works so to stop you play the end, broken bare bones fillawfulsofee]. Only thing sketcher is my rant at the swiss cheese windowz makes all our lives.
Oh to add for DVDs I needed AC3 audio sources (via TMPGEnc and DVD-lab) to hear audio in NVDVD and Encore built a nice DVD too but only burning from encore (or disk image I suppose) was playable likely some ini file issue.
So after hating my DVD burning around Nero experience in/and with Vista I've turned to… what? Roxio? totally dissed here? I'll have to check it next thanks.
I have used Nero for years from the earliest to the latest version (7) and before XP it use to be a nightmare burning disks but since XP Nero has worked flawlessly. On one of my computers I've upgraded to Vista and Nero has a problem burning disk but hopefully that will be fixed but Vista Ultimate has a utility in it that you can copy data to a dvdrw without any other software – very useful. I've just bought Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 to try out on my Vista machine so hopefully it may go ok but we will see. I have 9 computers in the house and each one has its own cd/dvd burning software and 3 have Nero 7 and no problems on any of them including my laptops. Also other sofware works well on the other computers.
My desktop PCs have terrabytes of hard disk space as each has several hard drives on eide and sata so Nero seems to be fine. I use Amd processors and no problems buring CD's.
Burning software does need space so try defragging drives and adding an extra drive if necessary to keep ones C drive clear as much as possible.
Incidently chaps its really helpful to read your comments but could we dispense with the F please word even if asterisked out. Ladies do read forums you know.
I had a problem with Nero and corrected it with the tip from post 7 by searching for the Compatibility Wizard in Help, then setting Nero to run as 2000 standards. Thanks for the tip!
Have you noticed that you only find out the bad stuff after you have installed it, I have installed Roxio, after it was recommended to me ( I will never talk to that person again), It never worked properly to start with. I am working with Windows XP and it has caused no end of problems, I dont know if you have noticed, but they don't show the uninstall button. So I am having to use XPs add/ remove programs. And it is all going!! hopefully that will fix the problem. I even tried not to use Roxio to burn CDs, (just using the XP CD Burner. Roxio would hijack the CD and then would stop and not do anything, has anyone had this happen. Soooo Frustrating. But I will not be defeated. Roxio is going….. and good riddance
I can't uninstall it via the control panel cos it tries to install itself over and over again. I've seen viruses that are less damaging than this program. The developers can't write a proper install/uninstall much less anything else. I tell you, those people are so stupid, they couldn't get piss out of a boot if you put the instructions on the heel!
← Previous Comments
Comments on this entry are closed.