Nero Burning Rom 4.0.5.5 Copyright 1995 - 1999 ahead software gmbh Updated September-6-1999 NOTE: Demo version running until 31.12.1999. ~~~~~ In case the demo has expired, please download the current version from http://www.ahead.de. 1. Changes of the new version ============================= Nero - Burning Rom * Nero doesn't support 16bit any more. ==================================== The final version with Windows 3.11 support is Nero 4.0.3.0 * Recorder support + Supporting following ATAPI recorder: - Acer CD-R/RW CRW4232A, CD-R/RW CRW4432A, CD-R/RW CRW6206A, CD-R/RW CRW6232A, CD-R/RW 4X2X30, CD-R/RW 4X4X30, CD-R/RW 4X2X32, CD-R/RW 4X4X32 CD-R/RW 2X2X24, CD-R/RW2X2X32, CD-R/RW 4X2X24, CD-R/RW 4X4X24, 4406U 4x4x6x USB - Actima ARW4420 - Artec CD-RW 2W/6R - A-Open CRW9420, CRW9624 - Creative CD-RW RW2024E, CD-RW RW4224E, CD-RW RW2224E, CD-RW RW4424E - Delta OME-W141 - Delta "OIP-RW2004A" - Delta "OIP-PW2004A" - Dysan CDRW-4416, CRW-426, CRW-1426, CDRW-2216, CDRW-4216, CDRW-2224 - Goldstar CD-RW CED-8041B, CD-RW CED-8042B, CD-RW CED-8043B - HI-VAL H2242, H4242 - HP CD-Writer+ 8200, CD-Writer+ 7500 - Imation CD-RW IMW040420 - Iomega ZIP CD, ZIPCD 650, ZIPCD 4x650 - JVC XR-W2080/2082, XR-W4080/4082, RW4224, XR-W4424 - LG CD-RW CED-8041B, CD-RW CED-8042B, CD-RW CED-8043B - Memorex CDRW-2224, CD-RW2224, CD-RW4224, CDRW-4420, CDRW-4216, CDRW-4416 - Mitsubishi CDRW4420a - Mitsumi CR-4802TE, CR-4804TE - Philips CDD3801, PCA382RW IDE, IDE-CD R/RW 2x2x24, R/RW 4x4x24, R/RW 4x4x32 CDD4201, - Ricoh CD-R/RW MP7040A, CD-R/RW MP7060A - Smart&Friendly CD-RW2224, CD-RW4224A - Sony CRX510E, CRX120E - Traxdata CDR4800, CDRW4424 PLUS, CDRW4432 PLUS - Waitec WT2422EI, WT2444EI, WT3244EI - Wearness CDRW-1688 - Yamaha CRW4416E, CRW6416E + Supporting following SCSI recorder: - Actima ARW4420S - AOpen CRW9420S - Delta OIP-RW2004/B - JVC XR-W4080S/4082S - Matsushita/Panasonic CW-7503 - Memorex CDRW-4420S, CD-R R820S, CDRW-4416S - Mitsubishi CDRW4420 - Teac CD-R56S, CS-R58S - Traxdata CDR6240, CDRW2224 PLUS - Plextor PlexWriter 8/20 (CD-R PX-R820), PlexWriter RW 4/2/20 (CD-R PX-W4220), PlexWriter RW 8/2/20 (CD-R PX-W8220) - Ricoh CD-R/RW MP7040S, CD-R/RW RW7040S - Smart&Friendly CD-R8020 - SONY CRX140S - Waitec WT624, WT824, WT4046, WT2082 - Yamaha CRW4416S, CRW6416S (for a complete list of supported recorder please refer to: '4. Supported recorders as of...') * New CD formats + CD-ROM UDF and UDF/ISO (Bridge) + Video CD creation * CD-Copy + Drag&Drop of audio tracks directly from audio CD into the audio compilation. * Other features + Setting of audio track limits (wav-splitting). Useful to divide one huge WAV-file into several tracks. + Audio filter: Stereo widening Fade In/Out Normalize DeClick Hiss reduction 20 band graphical equalizer + Nero Cover Editor + Support of Japanese DOS characters + ISO9660 and Joliet volume descriptor could be edited seperately + New harddisk backup feature, that allows to burn sector by sector copies of a harddisk on CD. Such backups allow the restoration of the entire system state (all partitions and fully configured operating systems)! These harddisk backups can be restored with a DOS program called NRESTORE. + Support of writing MP3 files on the fly to audio CD (see '6. Burning MP3 files (.mp3) with Nero') + Nero Wizard for simple CD creation * Languages + English + Japanese + German + French + Spanish + Norwegian + Italian + Dutch + Danish + Portuguese + Chinese + Swedish 2. Changes in previous versions that you should be aware of =========================================================== Version 3.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~ * New CD formats + HFS CD + Hybrid CD + Bootable CD + Mode 2 track-at-once + Writing ISO compilation as disc-at-once + Audio CD with CD-Text (supported only by some recorders) * CD-Copy + Copy "on-the-fly" from CD-ROM drives + Option to ignore bad TOC type (Useful to make a backup of some special CD formats like: Data, x*Audio, Data, in one session.) * Other features + Multiple track selection + CD format checking + Graphical display of compilation size + Option to remove silence at the end of stored audio tracks + Option to save audio tracks with different sample rates (44.1kHz, 22.05kHz, 11.025kHz), different number of channels (mono/stereo) and different number of bits per sample (8 or 16 bits). This feature is currently only available if the jitter correction is turned off. + Nero now "remembers" more user settings like (speed test, simulate, burn and ISO options) + Oversize feature, to write more than 74 min (depends on recorder, only available for Teac (50s/55s) and Yamaha SCSI recorders) + Capability to play sounds after simulating/burning/erasing + Audio CD-player controls in 'Save track' dialog with the ability to play sounds analog and digitally. Digitally means, the sound is read from the device via DAE and then directly sent to the sound card(!). Another nice feature is the display of index positions and the ability to jump to index position if the recorder supports this feature. BTW: The audio CD player will always stop after playing one song. + Option to eject the CD after the burnprocess manually + Speed selection for some CD-ROM drives Version 2.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~ * CD-ROM + Multisession with track linking + Mixed Mode + User definable file select filter * Audio-CD + Graphical representation of audio files + Audio index setting + Optional jitter and CRC-correction * CD-Copy + Complex read-error handling + Optional jitter and CRC-correction * Images + Track-at-once and disc-at-once + Importing ISO 9660, HFS-images and others + Writing third party images, also from other platforms Version 1.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~ + User settable audio pause length for all recorders that support this feature in track-at-once (TAO) or that support with disc-at-once (DAO). Also ISRCs can be set. See recorder specific notes for details. + Joliet support. + Copying CDs is much faster as reading is done at the maximum speed supported by your recorder and system. Also, Nero uses disc-at-once whenever possible. + Supports CD-ReWritables with the Ricoh MP6200 and MP6201. + CD-Copy (from recorder to HD) is supported for . all recorders (see list below). . selects best write mode (DAO or TAO) depending on recorder capabilities and selected format (CD-ROM or Audio). . CD-ROM, Audio-CDs, Mixed-Mode-CDs, Mode 2 CDs. Exceptions see list below. + Audio tracks can be read as wave-files. 3. Nero Multi-Mounter for Win 95 and Win NT 4.0 =============================================== The Multi-Mounter is installed with the installation process of Nero. Select any connected CD-ROM or CD-Recorder in the Explorer. Use your right mouse button to get to the properties of the inserted multi- session CD. There the new property sheet 'volumes' allows you to select any of the existing volumes. Features: - Includes Volume Mounter and Nero IO Driver for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. - Auto-insert notification is automatically disabled during burn process. - Drive letter access is possible also on NT. - Co-existance with other file system drivers of Easy CD Pro V1.2, Easy CD Pro V2.0, WinOnCd V3.0, Corel CD Creator V2.00, Sony CD-RFS 1.0. 4. Supported recorders as of August-11-1999 =========================================== Acer CR-1420C, *CD-R/RW CRW6206A, CRW620, *CRW622, *CD-R/RW CRW4232A, *CD-R/RW CRW4432A, *CD-R/RW CRW6206A, *CD-R/RW CRW6232A, *CD-R/RW 2X2X6, *CD-R/RW 2X2X24, *CD-R/RW 2X2X32, *CD-R/RW 4X2X24, *CD-R/RW 4X4X24, *CD-R/RW 4X2X30, *CD-R/RW 4X4X30, *CD-R/RW 4X2X32, *CD-R/RW 4X4X32 Actima *ARW4420, ARW4420S AOpen CDW620, *CRW622, *CRW9420, CRW9420S, *CRW9624 Artec *CD-RW 2W/6R BTC *BCE621 CalDigital CDR4X12 Caravell CDR-N820S Creative *CD-RW RW2024E, *CD-RW RW4224E, *CD-RW RW2224E, *CD-RW RW4424E Cyber Drive *CDRW602 Delta *CDE6121, *ODR6121, *ODE-8141, *OME-W141, *CDR6121, OIP-RW2004/B Dynatek CDRW-426, CDE260R Dysan CR-1420C, CR-620, *CDRW-4416, *CRW-426, *CRW-1426, *CDRW-2216, *CDRW-4216, *CDRW-2224 Goldstar *CD-RW CED-8041B, *CD-RW CED-8042B, *CD-RW CED-8043B Grundig CDR100IPW HP 4020, C4324/C4325, 6020, *7100, *7110, *7200, *7220, *8100, *8110, *8200, *7500 Hightech CD-R1002, CD-R2004, CD-R2006, CD-R2006PLUS, CD-R4006, *CD-R426 Hi-Val *2x6x2 Rewriteable, *CDU928E, *H2242, *H4242 Imation *CD-RW IMW040420 Iomega *ZIP CD, *ZIPCD 650, *ZIPCD 4x650 JCCOM *JCD-62RW JCI *JCD-62RW, *CDRW-622 JVC XR-W2010, XR-W2020, XR-W2022, R-2626, XR-W2040, XR-W2042, *XR-R2060, *XR-W2080/2082 *XR-W4080/4082, *RW4224, *XR-W4424, XR-W4080S/4082S Kodak CDR-240, *2600, *2801 IDE LG *CD-RW CED-8041B, *CD-RW CED-8042B, *CD-RW CED-8043B Lite-On *LTR-511 Matsushita/Panasonic CW-7502, *CW-7582, CW-7503 Memorex CRW-620, *CR-622, *CRW-1622, CRW-2216, *CRW-2642, *CRW-4216, *CDRW-2216, *CDRW-2224, *CD-RW2224, *CD-RW4224, CDRW-4420S, *CDRW-4420, CD-R R820S, *CDRW-4216, *CDRW-4416, CDRW-4416S Mitsubishi RW226, CDVR2X6, CDVR4, CDVR4X4, CDR4X12, CDVR, *CDRW4420a, CDRW4420 Mitsumi CD-2200CS, CR-2201CS, CR-2401TS, *CR-2600TE, *CR-2800TE, *CR-2801TE, *CR-4801TE *CR-4802TE, *CR-4804TE MMagic *MCR-265 Nomai 680RW Oaktech *OTI-975 Socrates Ocean *RW260 Olympus CDS615E, CDS620E, CDS630E Optima CD-R 1300, CD-R 650 Philips/IMS CDD2000, CDD2600, *CDD3610, CDD3600, Omniwriter26, *Omniwriter26A, *Omniwriter International, *PCA267CR, PCA350RW, *VersaWriter 3100, *CDD3801 *PCA382RW IDE, *IDE-CD R/RW 2x2x24, *R/RW 4x4x24, *R/RW 4x4x32, *CDD4201 Pinnacle RCD 4X4, RCD 4X12, RCD5020, RCD5040, RCDW226 Pioneer CD-WO DW-S114X Plasmon CDR4220, CDR480 Plextor CD-R PX-R24CS, PX-R412C, PlexWriter 8/20 (CD-R PX-R820), RW 4/2/20 (CD-R PX-W4220) PlexWriter RW 8/2/20 (CD-R PX-W8220) Ricoh RO-1420C, MP6200S, MP6201S, MP6211S, *MP6200A, *CD-R/RW MP7040A, CD-R/RW MP7040S, CD-R/RW RW7040S, *CD-R/RW MP7060A Samsung *CD-R/RW SCW-230 Smart & Friendly CD-RW226, CD-R426 SCSI, CD-R2004, CD-R2006 Plus, CD-R2006 Pro, CD-R4006 CD-R4012, CRD-R800S, CD-R8020, *CD-RW2224, *CD-RW4224A Sony CDU920S, CDU924S, CDU926S, Spressa 960S/9611S, *CDU928E, CDU948S, ROX5004, *CRW100E, *CRX110E, *ROX5004, *CRX510E, *CRX120E, CRX140S Teac CD-R50S-000, CD-R55S, CD-R56S, CD-R58S That's Write! thats3600, FastX 820S Traxdata CDRW2260 PRO, CDRW2260EL PRO, CRW2260 PRO, *CDRW2260+, CDRW4260 PRO, CDRW4120, CDR6240, *CDR4800, *CDRW2224 PLUS, *CDRW4424 PLUS, *CDRW4432 PLUS USDrives *CDRW62D Verbatim *MCA-CDRW 226 Vuego *CDW6206 Waitec WT2036, *WT2036EI, WT4046, WT412, *WT2422EI, WT624, WT824, *WT2444EI, *WT3244EI, WT2082 Wearness *CDR 622, *CDRW-622, *CDRW-642e, CDR-432, CDR-632P, *CDRW-1688 Yamaha CDR100, CDR102, CDR200, CDR400, *CDR401, CRW2260, CRW4260, *CRW4001, *CRW2216E, CRW4216S, *CRW4216E, CRW4216S, *CRW4261, *CRW2216E, *CRW4416E, CRW4416S, *CRW6416E, CRW6416S (* No Windows 3.1x support for ATAPI recorders) 5. More recorder infos... ========================= HP 4020 - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. HP 6020 - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. - The maximum audio read speed is 4x. HP CD-Writer+ 7100 - Nero does not support Mode 2 DAO - Due to a problem of this recorder with firmware version 1.00, writing in DAO mode is disabled. TAO mode is used instead. HP CD-Writer+ 8100 - Supports writing audio CDs with CD-Text info in DAO. IMS/Philips CDD2000 - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. IMS/Philips CDD2600 - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. - The maximum audio read speed is 4x. Philips CDD3610 - Nero does not support Mode 2 DAO - Due to a problem of this recorder with firmware version 1.00, writing in DAO mode is disabled. TAO mode is used instead. JVC XR-W2010, XR-W2020, XR-W2022 - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for CD-ROMs and Audio-CD, but uses track-at-once for Mixed-Mode-CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. - In some configurations you may encounter problems during burning (not simulation). If this happens, try turning off Auto-Insert. - If getting SCSI errors by copying Mixed-Mode CDs, turn off reading audio data with sub-code. - The unofficial firmware version 2.05 sometimes causes problems at the end of writing in track- at-once mode. Please use the official released Firmware version 1.51 instead! JVC XR-W2040/2042, XR-W4080/4082 - Supports CD-ReWritables. Mitsumi CD-R CR-2201CS - DAO is not supported. CD-Copy uses TAO. - Does not support variable pause and ISRC. Mitsumi CR-2401TS - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. Mitsumi CR-2600TE, CR-2801TE, CR-4801TE - Recorder does not support DAO, except CR-4801 up from firmware 2.01. - CD-Copy uses track-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause with TAO. Optima CD-R 1300 - Recorder does not support DAO. - CD-Copy uses track-at-once for all CDs. Pinnacle RCD 4X4 - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. Pioneer CD-WO DW-S114X - CD-Copy uses track-at-once for all CDs. - Does not support variable pause and ISRC. Plextor CD-R PX-R24CS - Recorder does not support DAO. - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports ISRC but not variable pause with TAO. Plextor PlexWriter 8/20 (CD-R PX-R820) - Recorder supports 8x write speed. Plextor PX-W4220-T with firmware >= 1.02 - Supports writing audio CDs with CD-Text info in DAO. Plextor PX-W8220-T - Supports writing audio CDs with CD-Text info in DAO. PlexWriter RW 4/2/20 (CD-R PX-W4220) - Supports CD-ReWritables. Ricoh RO-1420C - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. Ricoh MP6200, MP6201, MP6200A, CD-R/RW MP7040A - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports ISRC but not variable pause with TAO. - Supports CD-ReWritables. - MP7040A: Supports writing with 4x to CD-RW media (please check CD-RW media specification). Ricoh CD-R/RW MP7040S, CD-R/RW RW7040S - Supports writing audio CDs with CD-Text info in DAO. - Supports writing with 4x to CD-RW media (please check CD-RW media specification). Sony CDU920S, CDU924S - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. Sony CDU948S - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports writing audio CDs with CD-Text info in DAO. Sony CDU926S - Recorder does not support DAO. - CD-Copy uses track-at-once for all CDs. Sony CDU928E - Recorder does not support DAO. - CD-Copy uses track-at-once for all CDs. - With firmware version 1.0f or earlier, CD-Info gets wrong session information from recorder. Sony CRX100E, CRX110E - Supports writing audio CDs with CD-Text info in DAO. Teac CD-R50S-000, CD-R55S, CD-R56S - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports variable pause and ISRC with TAO. - CD-R56S supports 6x write speed. That's Write! FastX 820S - Recorder supports 8x write speed. Yamaha CDR100, CDR102 - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - CD-Copy of Mixed-Mode CDs not supported. - Does not support variable pause and ISRC. Yamaha CDR400, CDR200 - CD-Copy uses disc-at-once for all CDs. - Supports ISRC and variable pause with TAO. Yamaha CRW4001 - Supports CD-ReWritables. Yamaha CRW4260, CRW2260, CRW2216E, CRW4416E - Supports CD-ReWritables. - CRW4416E and CRW4416S support writing with 4x to CD-RW media (please check CD-RW media specification). 6. Burning MPEG3 files (.mp3) with Nero ======================================== MPEG3 audio files (with the extension .mp3) have become one of the favourite file formats of the internet community, if compressed audio data is to be transmitted. That’s why Nero now supports burning of MPEG3 files. These files can now be dragged and dropped into Nero audio compilations just like wave files (.wav) or audio tracks (.cda) can. Nero is able to burn MPEG3 files "on the fly". That means it’s now possible to without having to convert first of all the files into wave format or storing the uncompressed audio data into a cache file first. The maximum burning speed for MPEG3 files depends highly upon the speed of your processor, since uncompressing MPEG3 files requires lots of floating point operations. As a rule of thumb can be said, that a 100 Mhz Pentium processor is capable to uncompress MPEG3 data at about 2x speed. A faster 250 Mhz Pentium II processor should be able to decode MPEG3 data at 4x or even more quickly. MPEG3 files can currently only be played under Windows 95, 98 and NT. Under Windows 3.1 some multitasking capabilities are not available, that are required for asynchronous MPEG3 playback. MPEG3 files from the internet may be sometimes damaged. These problems might cause crackling noises. If such damaged MPEG3 files are dragged into a Nero audio compilation, then Nero will display a warning. There will be another warning in the Nero’s log file telling, that Nero lost synchronization within the MPEG3 file. There might also be MPEG files with the extension ".mp3" that cannot be decoded by Nero at all. Such files are probably either severly damaged or contain another audio file format like MPEG 2.0 or any other unsupported sound format. Nero’s MPEG3 library currently supports only standard MPEG3 files (that means ISO MPEG 1.0 layer 3, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, stereo). 7. How to get technical support =============================== Send e-mail to support@ahead.de or visit us at http://www.ahead.de or fax +49 7248 911 888 anytime Tel: 0190 871086 (only for Germany)