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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: tonyw on November 22, 2002, 04:16:32 AM

Title: DVD Recorder Drives
Post by: tonyw on November 22, 2002, 04:16:32 AM

Does anyone have any thoughts on a suitable drive to record DVDs? There are a couple on the market, like the Sony DRU500A and the HP DVD100i, but they're only available with Windows support, of course.

Has anyone any experience with DVD recording, preferably in a Windows-free environment?

tony

Title: Re: DVD Recorder Drives
Post by: kd7ota on November 22, 2002, 04:36:54 AM

I have only seen DVD burning in a Windows environment.  I think there was some for the Macintosh, but Macs are junk.

Title: Re: DVD Recorder Drives
Post by: Desmon on November 22, 2002, 04:51:59 AM

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tonyw wrote:
Does anyone have any thoughts on a suitable drive to record DVDs? There are a couple on the market, like the Sony DRU500A and the HP DVD100i, but they're only available with Windows support, of course.

Has anyone any experience with DVD recording, preferably in a Windows-free environment?

There's also the Pioneer DVR-A05 2x DVD writer. On sale this week at a little over $600 AUD. You won't find any DVD authouring softs for the Amiga tho...

Title: Re: DVD Recorder Drives
Post by: Oli_hd on November 22, 2002, 10:22:36 PM

Hi,
I have a DVD RAM drive, They arnt available any more new but there are loads available second hand, There are two versions, up to 5.2Gig and up to 9.4Gig (I think).
The Amiga supports DVD-RAM and can even boot off them.
The disks are a little expensive but its a great system, I love it.

Title: Re: DVD Recorder Drives
Post by: tonyw on November 23, 2002, 12:08:13 AM

Thanks guys. I think the Ricoh MP5125A is the only way to go. It has a better writeup than all the others, suports most formats and is cheaper to boot. I've never had any trouble with my MP9060A DVD/CD drive.

As for software, unless you are prepared to run Windows, there just isn't anything at all. What I want the DVD record feature for is to transcribe all my movies from tape, before they all die of old age. Like transcribing all my old vinyl records onto CD.

tony

Title: Re: DVD Recorder Drives
Post by: lurkist on November 23, 2002, 12:36:55 AM

@Oli_hd
That sounds like a good option, what filesystem
and software do you use?

Title: Re: DVD Recorder Drives
Post by: Oli_hd on November 23, 2002, 12:39:39 PM

Hi,

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what filesystem and software do you use?

I run the Allegro CDFS which supports the UDF DVD format (read only  :-(  )
For recording I use the bog standard fastfilesystem but you can use PFS, SFS, Dos/Win filesystem or anything you like (Except UDF  :-(  I wonder if we ask Elbox nicely ;-) )
There is an archive on Aminet dedicated to the DVDRAM drives, With software so that HDToolbox recognises it.