The Laptop DVD Burner

I have an HP Pavillion dv 6000 series laptop. It has a DVD burner. I burned my camcorder home movie footage on to a DVD using my Panasonic DVD recorder. No problem there. However, when I try to copy the DVD using the HP laptop burner, I receive an error message which reads, “Cannot create or replace Video_TS. Cannot find the specified path. Make sure you specify the correct path.” Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong? Thank you in advance.

Sounds like one needs a real DVD burner because Windows Movie Player does not play or burn DVDs.

System Requirements for Playing Blu-ray Discs

Playing high-definition content from a Blu-ray Disc is much more demanding on your PC resources than playing DVD movies. The following specifications are system recommendations for playing Blu-ray Discs on a PC.

Processor

Dual or quad core processors recommended

Intel (Minimum):

Pentium 4 541 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 840 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 930 3.0 GHz, 935 3.2GHz or 940 3.2 GHz, Core Duo T2400 1.83 GHz, Pentium M 755 2.0 GHz, Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz, or T5600 1.83 GHz

Intel (Recommended):

Pentium EE 840 3.2 GHz, 955 3.4 GHz or 965 3.73 GHz, Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz, 950 3.4 GHz or 960 3.6 GHz, Core Duo T2500 2.0 GHz, T2600 2.16 GHz, or T2700 2.33 GHz, Core 2 Duo E6300 1.8 GHz, E6400 2.13 GHz, E6600 2.4 GHz, E6700 2.66 GHZ or X6800 2.93 GHz, T7200 2.00 GHz, T7400 2.16 GHz, T7600 2.33 GHz, Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz, Core 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66 GHz, or X6800 2.93 GHz

AMD (Minimum):

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0 GHz or 4000+ 2.0 GHz, Turion 64 X2 TL-50 1.6 GHz, TL-52 1.6 GHz or TL-56 1.8 GHz

AMD (Recommended):

Athlon 64 FX FX-60 2.6 GHz or FX-62 2.8 GHz, Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz, 4400+ 2.2 GHz, 4600+ 2.4 GHz, 4800+ 2.4 GHz or 5000+ 2.6 GHz, Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 GHz

System Memory (RAM)

512 MB (minimum), 1 GB or more is recommended

Disc Drive

Blu-ray Disc Optical drive, USB Blu-ray drive.

Graphics Card

It is recommended that you have one of the graphics cards with the following graphics processor unit (GPU) installed on your computer in order to play Blu-ray Disc titles.

Intel 965Ggraphics

•nVidia: GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7800 GTX 512, GeForce 7900 GX2, GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7950 GX2, GeForce 8400 series, GeForce 8500 series, GeForce 8600 series, GeForce 8800 series

•ATI (minumum requirements): ATI Radeon X1600 series, X1800 series, X1900 series,

•ATI (recommended requirements): ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600, 3800 series

Video RAM: Graphics card memory requires 256MB or above.

Display Devices

HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) compliant display (DVI, HDMI connections) for digital output.

TV (composite, component, S-Video) or computer monitor (VGA) for analog output

Operating System

Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP

Only supports Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed

Software

PowerDVD 7 Ultra or PowerDVD 8 Ultra. Note: An easy way to determine whether your version of PowerDVD supports Blu-ray Discs is to look for the Blu-ray Disc logo on the main screen of PowerDVD. If you don’t see this logo, it is likely your version of PowerDVD doesn’t support Blu-ray Discs.

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The DVD-RW drive in my laptop is faulty. I’ve got enough computer hardware know-how to reckon that I can buy a replacement drive on ebay and install it myself. Only I haven’t worked with laptops before - are DVD drives in them easy enough to access, take out and replace? And how do I know which model to get? Will the model of DVD drive be specific to my laptop, or will one model of drive be used in all kinds of laptops? So shall I search by laptop model, or shall I find out what model of DVD drive it needs? The laptop in questions in a Medion 41567
You can pull the drive out of the laptop (carefully) and read the product number. There should be a “free” service & troubleshooting guide that you can download at your laptop manufacturer’s website. Contrary to what others have said here, it is not that difficult to do. Once out and you have the product number, you can search for a replacement at the manufacturer’s website or call them. Unfortunately for internal components, most are proprietary. So you have to go back to the manufacturer for a replacement or upgrade. However, another option is to get an external USB burner instead. There are lots of other options here.

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I own a Lite-On SOHW 832S DVDRW drive. Unkowningly i exceeded my DVD Region change count and now its locked to the incorrect region. How do i go about unlocking the drive. Thanks
http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html Been using it for years. Great program! Turns your drive into region free. Free trial offered.

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how do you find out if your laptop has a dvd burner already installed in it. i mean i can play dvd’s already and i also have a ez- dub do i need that too. and i have the nero essential’s cd.
Left click on the start button. Find the icon for my computer. Click on that. It will show you Hard drives, Devices with removable storages, and network drives if you have them. Under the devices with removable stores, it will show your DVD, CD, Floppy drives and such. Look at your DVD drive and see if it says DVD-RW or anything to that effect. If it says DVD only, it is a reader. DVD - or + RW means you have a DVD Reader and Writer. Good luck, Z

Quick guide how to replace a bezel on a laptop DVD Drive.

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This behavior started somewhere after I installed Pinnacle Media Suite and Roxio media creator. I guess I could try uninstalling them but anyone know why this happens?

If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yk5zpr

Hiya
does anybody have, or know where I can get a region unlock code for an Alba DVD62 dvd player?

Cheers.
Duh! How dumb am I? Although it says its region 2 it's actually multiregion straight out of the box, no code needed. Sorted!

a1 b2 c3 d4 etc

There are two kinds of DVDs 1) DVD Rom (Read only Memory) only READS dvd’s and cd’s. Better replace it with a DVD r/w. 2) DVD r/w naturally can READ and BURN. If you have a DVD r/w and yet you cannot burn any disk with it, it implies two things: a) Your burning software like Nero for instance is not installed of something wrong with it. Try reinstalling it. b) Your DVD r/w is no longer working. You may replace your DVD drive If you do not know the real score of your optical drive better bring it to the Toshiba Service Centre. The advantage of having an external drive is that you can use it with any computer. But the draw back is that it becomes an additional hardware you have to bring aside from your laptop when you are to travel with it.

Do you think is worth it to Install in a 1 year old Dell Xps M1210 Laptop a DVD burner and more memory?Is this reccomended for a year old laptop?or would it be too expensive and I should just wait til I could afford a New laptop?
Thanks

the DVD burner, wait for your next computer, DVD burners are such an unused luxury, it's not worth the investment right now on a 1yr old rig, more RAM on the other hand, is always worth a few bucks, as it's the single thing that could most benefit your performance.