Does anyone know of a good DVD burning program?

Question

I need one that I can make menus with and won't crash my comp. I've tried Nero and that works, but the quality didn't come out very good and I'd like to use DVDs but it only lets me burn on CDs. I also tried Roxio Easy DVD burning, but the DVD builder doesn't open, it just comes up with an error. The latest program I tried is Roxio Media Creator. It works fine up until the movie is encoding and then it freezes 9% in and I have no idea why. If anyone has any ideas as to why I'm having so much difficulty that'd be great.

Just for reference I'm trying to burn a movie that me and a friend made ourselves, its not ripped. My computer is running at 2.8GHz processor and 1GB ram.

Thanks

Yes it does play the video while is encoding, so thats a possibility.

I checked it, and it only runs at like 50% when its encoding. And one of my friends suggested doing a clean install which I guess I'll have to try now.

Also anyone who is familiar with Nero, is it possible to burn a DVD to a DVD with a menu because as far as I know you can't? I think you can only add a menu to a video CD.

Answer 1

That's weird! I've used both Nero and Roxio with good success. I'ld suggest uninstalling doing a clean install of either one of those two progams. Monitor how much resource your system is using i.e. memory, cpu... Try turning off your anti-virus (you may want to disconnect from the internet). If none of these work.. then, try "Pinnacle Studio" The latest version is 10. Very powerful program. Good luck!

Answer 2

my friend uses sonic and he really likes it. he said the help menu is pretty... well... helpful.

seems like your specs are pretty good... though celerons aren't very good for that kind of stuff because their L2 cache is only 512KB (for newer models). 1MB is a decent amount.

Does your video play while it's being burned? I used to have a crappy video card, and when I tried to burn a DVD, the video would play and my computer would totally lock up, and once I was able to close out of the burner, every thing went back to normal.