I checked, and the Properties of my burners does not permit enabling / disabling packet writing, even though a Tab for InCD does exist and presents other choices (such as "Format", "Erase", etc.). I'm just going to try to live with the driver installed for a while and see how it goes. One option I have is to disable the startup code for InCD and then rebooting. Not quite as simple or elegant as an "Enable/Disable" choice on the Preferences pane though.
My only real need is to see HD-DVDs which Ulead burns in a newer UDF 2 format which, once burned, can no longer be mounted on my XP desktop without a packet writing driver like InCD. It would have been very nice and very appropriate for Ulead to provide some support for this along with their apps which do UDF 2 and aboive writing like MF6+. Perhaps VS11, which is supposedly imminent, will provide this feature. (-8
Thanks again,
Larry
BluRay authoring on 4.7 GB DVDs
Good point, I remember Roxio had a small distro that you install on another machine to read their UDF disks (back in win2000).
I think Nero may also have one. I know there use to be a Mount-Rainier driver.
I remember now that InCD would hijack the drive if the cd/dvd was a rewriteable disk. I couldn't control InCD. If InCD wrote the disk no problem. If another program wrote the UDF format on the dvd Nero InCD would always update the cd/dvd when you ejected it and ruin the cd/dvd's original format.
So, using my Sony Dvd Recorder and recording in the -VR mode (Sony uses UDF 2.0 or 2.01) onto a dvd-rw disk. I'd put the dvd into the computer to access the videos. When I hit the eject button InCD would change the dvd to it's format. InCd gave me no choices. This was causing the dvd-rw disk to be un-readable in any devices after this. Expecially the dvd recorder.
Data-Add lets me enable/disable this and even if data-add does update the disk it appears to use the same format as originally recorded/formatted by another program. So I can still use the disk in the Sony recorder and add more video to it. Same with my panasonic recorder on dvd-ram disks.
I think that InCd also runs as a service in windows under "Services". You can stop or start it there. It also loads a resident file on startup. So if I remember correctly there are 2 drivers to unload using InCD. If you stop the one that runs as a service in taskmanager it may restart itself again, can also can a crash. You have to stop the service under Services I think.
Data-Add is so easy, you just enable/disable it for the writer. If your using only a reader there's nothing to do, it will read the extended UDF formats.
I think Nero may also have one. I know there use to be a Mount-Rainier driver.
I remember now that InCD would hijack the drive if the cd/dvd was a rewriteable disk. I couldn't control InCD. If InCD wrote the disk no problem. If another program wrote the UDF format on the dvd Nero InCD would always update the cd/dvd when you ejected it and ruin the cd/dvd's original format.
So, using my Sony Dvd Recorder and recording in the -VR mode (Sony uses UDF 2.0 or 2.01) onto a dvd-rw disk. I'd put the dvd into the computer to access the videos. When I hit the eject button InCD would change the dvd to it's format. InCd gave me no choices. This was causing the dvd-rw disk to be un-readable in any devices after this. Expecially the dvd recorder.
Data-Add lets me enable/disable this and even if data-add does update the disk it appears to use the same format as originally recorded/formatted by another program. So I can still use the disk in the Sony recorder and add more video to it. Same with my panasonic recorder on dvd-ram disks.
I think that InCd also runs as a service in windows under "Services". You can stop or start it there. It also loads a resident file on startup. So if I remember correctly there are 2 drivers to unload using InCD. If you stop the one that runs as a service in taskmanager it may restart itself again, can also can a crash. You have to stop the service under Services I think.
Data-Add is so easy, you just enable/disable it for the writer. If your using only a reader there's nothing to do, it will read the extended UDF formats.
Based on the differences we have been discussing, I really do want to get the Ulead driver. Is there any way you are aware of to purchase it separately? I have no problem buying it (unless it is priced in some outrageous manner) and generally find Ulead software to be well worth the prices they charge. I specifically would want to get the newer 2.5 release.
Larry
Larry
I've looked over the Ulead online store and website, and from what I see, Burn Now 1.5 is the only separate disk software they offer presently. In digging a bit deeper, I see that it supports burning up to UDF 2.01 but not beyond that.
Burn Now 4.5 comes bundled with MF6+, as do the BD and DVD burner apps, but none of these install a packet driver which can mount newer UDF 2 and above disks. For those of us who have not updated MovieFactory from version 5, and therefore did not get the Data-Add stuff which came with that version, it looks like we may be out of luck. I guess there is the option of buying MF5 now merely to get the Data-Add packet driver, but I don't see any other way of purchasing it separately.
There is always the option, I guess, of going to Vista, but I, for one, will not consider this at least until Service Pack 1 is released. I have no desire to screw around with Vista before then, given all of my Microsoft experiences.....
The Nero InCD option is a weak choice for the reasons you have stated, and unloading it and stopping it takes more thought and effort. Not unlike MF6+, I believe Nero 7 can also write UDF 2.5 disks (in Nero Burning ROM) without having InCD installed, and also like MF6+, creates disks which then cannot be mounted and read. It's a shame that domrbody does not sell a reliable XP UDF 2.5 driver as an aftermarket add-on. I would think that BluRay and HD-DVD authors would be demanding it.
Larry
Burn Now 4.5 comes bundled with MF6+, as do the BD and DVD burner apps, but none of these install a packet driver which can mount newer UDF 2 and above disks. For those of us who have not updated MovieFactory from version 5, and therefore did not get the Data-Add stuff which came with that version, it looks like we may be out of luck. I guess there is the option of buying MF5 now merely to get the Data-Add packet driver, but I don't see any other way of purchasing it separately.
There is always the option, I guess, of going to Vista, but I, for one, will not consider this at least until Service Pack 1 is released. I have no desire to screw around with Vista before then, given all of my Microsoft experiences.....
The Nero InCD option is a weak choice for the reasons you have stated, and unloading it and stopping it takes more thought and effort. Not unlike MF6+, I believe Nero 7 can also write UDF 2.5 disks (in Nero Burning ROM) without having InCD installed, and also like MF6+, creates disks which then cannot be mounted and read. It's a shame that domrbody does not sell a reliable XP UDF 2.5 driver as an aftermarket add-on. I would think that BluRay and HD-DVD authors would be demanding it.
Larry