dvd

[cliffboss]

a little rumor i have heard is that if you have this special program, you can use your normal cdrw drive and burn on dvds..... is it true..

[bchur83]

I have never heard this, but it would be nice if it were possible. There was a bit of a stir a while back when someone mentioned that a CD-ROM could be modded into a DVD-ROM drive, but it soon disappeared for obvious reasons (It's Impossible). I doubt that this is possible.

[Rilian]

a little rumor i have heard is that if you have this special program, you can use your normal cdrw drive and burn on dvds..... is it true..
Ok this is often touted by people saying oh yeah I can burn DVDs on a normal CD-ROM drive... this is total and complete BS, now to clarify, certain programs meant for encoding video streams can convert a 9 or 4.7gb video stream into a 700mb "VCD" stream and then burned onto normal CD-Rs this is when VCD was more supported on DVD players, which alot still do but less now than when DVD burners were a MUCH higher price. Another method was to take a DVD convert it to a third party compression codec(divx, xvid, ms-mpeg4) and then compress it enough to fit onto regular CD-R, no kind of software will ever be able to change the physical hardware required to make a CD burner designed to do what a DVD burner is supposed to do.

BTW: you still needed a DVD-ROM in order to read in the DVD streams to work with those programs... just another means of not having to buy a DVD burner

[JigPu]

Check out this (http://www.burnworld.com/dvd/primer/dvdrecordable.htm) article. It covers some of the differences between burning a CD and burning a DVD, which should make clear why it's not possible for a CD burner to burn a DVD disk :)

JigPu

[cliffboss]

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