I have a cd-rw drive on my pc and i've recently downloaded a couple of music dvd's. I want to be able to watch them on tv so i need to put them on a disc. Will my cd-rw drive do the job? If yes, will i need to use a dvd disc or will a cd-r disc do? And if it won't do it, why's that?
Whats the difference between dvd's and cd's anyway? Forgive my total computer ignorance, i bet there's loads of 16 yr old techno experts out there reading this and laughing their heads off!
By the way, am i right in thinking that you can only write data onto a cd-r once, but you can overwrite stuff on a cd-rw as often as you like? And why do some kinds of discs have a plus sign and a minus sign, eg dvd+/-rw? Someone enlighten me, Please!!!!
2006-09-30 02:47:56 · 6 answers · asked by lastrolo76 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Yes,
Burn it as a VCD (video CD)
CD's have only 800 megs of space and
DVD's have 4.7gigs of space.
Different CD and DVD players used different CD formatts hence CD+R & CD-R.
Now days most players play either.
You are correct about CDR ,DVDR, CD r/w and DVD r/w
hope this helps?
2006-09-30 02:50:28 · answer #1 · answered by dobbie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
CDs have a disc size of upto 700MB, DVDs have a disc size of up to 9GB (approx. 9216MB). An average film is about 3GB in size that why you can't fit a film onto a CD. CDR = Write Once, CD-RW = Re writable. An option you take to copy a short film onto a CDR or CDRW is change to record format to VCD (Video Compact Disc), but your DVD player will have to support this format as with your program. Your best way is to buy an internal DVD RW for your PC, it olny cost around £35, then you wont have the worry about copying to a different format or onto several discs or buy an extrnal DVDRW so you can plu and play, Insert the disc you want to copy in your CDRW and a blank disc into your external drive. Some discs have diffent endings ie +/- rw, they have no major difference between them ie. disc space but only work with players and rewriters that support that format.
I hope this helps!
2006-09-30 03:07:03 · answer #2 · answered by Kat C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i will help u the best i can...first off...u can burn movies to a cd...but it usually can not be ove 700 mb...if the movie is over 700mb...it will not fit onto a cd........in order for u to use a dvd..u have to have a dvd writer.....it sounds as if u have a cd writer.......yes..u can only add data to a cd-r one time....cd-rw is re-writable..u can erase that and burn something else over it....u will need a program like ..sonic..nero..ashampoo ..power iso..in order to burn movies...u might also need codecs. to get the volume and picture to work on some movieshere are 2 codecs that might be needed.........divx for windows......this is for the picture.........ac3 filter...this is for the sound....good luck...have fun..it is aggravating...lol...i burn movies all day long...the only kind i have problems with is the ....bin/cue files
2006-09-30 02:55:56 · answer #3 · answered by big_chris_fool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We burn all our stuff to CD-RW because it is faster and less fussy.
More than likely you have a program that came with your CD burner that will do it for you ... as in transcode it from its original form (generally AVI) to a VCD (video C).
2006-09-30 02:56:11 · answer #4 · answered by sarah071267 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can i have nero 7 and its brill but all the programs do basically the same just open click on vcd and copy as long as your dvd player will play vcd jobs done
2006-09-30 02:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-30 02:53:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋