Has anyone tried to burn DVDs over a network?

[Antoneo]

Hrmm, the data I want to burn is on my desktop computer and the DVD burner is on a SFF upstairs. Rather than copy and paste the large files from the desktop into the SFF, I was wondering if it were possible to reliably burn the data straight onto DVD over the network. Anyone try this with success? To make things worse, the data will have to be transferred over a 802.11g wireless connection. I have a NEC3500a burner, 4x Ridata media, and Nero 6.

 

[tooltime]

can't say for sure what your experience will be but pulling it down onto a burner may not be as good as from your hdd. i have tried it and it worked and other times had some network bumps and it was interrupted.

i'd pull it down to your hdd and then burn it.

 

[Antoneo]

Grrr, getting 4.2GB from one place to another over wireless takes a real long time lol. Now I've searched a bit and one thing that puzzles me is whether or not DVD burners have the problem of buffer under-runs? Burnproof took care of that in CD-RW drives, but is there such a technology in DVD burners as well?

EDIT: CDRinfo says yes for the 3500a, I guess it's a standard feature now.

 

[Ioo]

Originally posted by: Antoneo
whether or not DVD burners have the problem of buffer under-runs? Burnproof took care of that in CD-RW drives, but is there such a technology in DVD burners as well?

Yeah, DVD-burners have buffer underun technology, but that will not help if your network is lagy or you loose connection in the middle of the burn. You will likely make a few coasters trying to go over a network.

Best bet would be to transfer the file(s) to the HD of the computer with the burner and then burn from there.

 

[piroroadkill]

With standard wired 100mbit lan, this will almost certainly work, but any type of wireless, you may well end up with coasters. Wireless is often never 100% reliable.

 

[Crashedout]

I do it daily on a gigabit lan, but on wireless? Good luck. Try it with a RW at 1x and if that completes you can always copy it to a R after its done.

 

[bigpow]

I tried it with CD burning... with DVD, it should work.
Especially since every DVD burner has some sort of buffer underrun protection.

802.11G is the killer... over 1GE NIC would be more feasible

 

[SKORPI0]

Works for me with Nero 6.6 and Diskjuggler, with the shared HDD between 4 systems. Wireless works but it's slow with my Dell Inspiron 8600.

 

[Budman]

I tried it & over a 100mbs wired network it works very well but up to a point.

4X no problem 6X still ok but dont try burning 8X because the network cant handle that speed & buffer underrun kicks in at that point.

So if you must burn across a network I suggest you keep at 4X.

 

[heemid]

Do I need to enable someting in Nero? I have a 10/100 @ 100mbs but burning at 2x or 4x it caches the files, which seems to just transfer the files to a temp directory on the computer with the burner, so it takes 50% more time to burn, is there a way to burn with only lets say a 50 meg buffer, thanks

 

[RickH]

I use the "Back it up" app in Nero over a GB lan all the time. Wireless is only for internet surfing in my book. R

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, I was thinking of doing something similar in the near future, possibly. Currently have 4X NEC ND1300A burner, LinkSys 54G wireless gear. Works fine for full-speed internet access over 1.5Mbit DSL, but I've heard that wireless tends to get "congested" and doesn't work so well for file-transfers, especially heavily full-duplex applications. I don't currently do any LAN file-transfers over wireless right now, so I haven't tested that. Nero has an add-on product called "NeroNet", that allows burning over a network. I'm wondering if that would be better, or would sharing the image/files to be burned using normal Windows' file-sharing, or somehow using DaemonTools instead? Burn-proof should handle occasion skips in the network, but I still prefer to avoid triggering it if possible.

Hmm, my calculations show that a 48Mbit/s WiFi connection would be equal to 6MB/sec theoretical, and burning at 4X usually takes a bit more than 5MB/s actual.. that's going to be really close. Maybe some of that non-standard 108Mbit/sec or 125Mbit/sec WiFi gear would give a little more headroom for doing this sort of thing.