{"id":354,"date":"2006-08-21T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/burn-dvds-from-windows-command-line.htm"},"modified":"2009-01-27T23:15:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T23:15:16","slug":"burn-dvds-from-windows-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/burn-dvds-from-windows-command-line.htm","title":{"rendered":"Burn DVDs from the Windows command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--115619867568705725--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/dwg120a.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sony DWG120A DVD recorder\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nA few weeks back, I bought myself a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.co.uk\/martprd\/product\/seo\/557708\">Sony DWG120A DVD\u00c2\u00b1RW dual layer recorder<\/a>. Although I picked mine up as a \u00c2\u00a329.99 brown box deal in <!--Static Ad --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/awclick.php?mid=1598&#038;id=87738\" target=\"_blank\">PC World<\/a>, it is available for less on the &#8216;net (but that would have involved shipping costs and delays).<\/p>\n<p>It was a two-minute installation (open case, swap out old CD drive, insert and connect new DVD drive, close case) but I soon found out that Windows XP&#8217;s support for DVD writing is not very good &#8211; it can write CDs natively but even with a DVD burner that interface is restricted to CDs &#8211; one feature that I&#8217;d expect Microsoft to have fixed by now. I didn&#8217;t have much luck with Windows Vista beta 2 and the NEC DVD burner in my notebook PC either and my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nero.com\/\">Nero<\/a> was no use, as I found that it is an OEM version and so is tied to that OEM&#8217;s devices &#8211; all I could do with my Sony drive was write to a generic image recorder device (which would at least allow me to create ISO images).<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years back, I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/burn-cds-from-command-line.htm\">a utility for burning CDs from the command line<\/a> and so I started googling for a DVD equivalent. A Windows FAQ article by John Savill, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsitpro.com\/articles\/print.cfm?articleid=49865\">How can I burn a DVD image from the command line?<\/a> pointed me in the direction of a Microsoft resource kit tool called <code>dvdburn.exe<\/code> and that did the trick. It&#8217;s a really simple utility, that does exactly what it says &#8211; it burns DVDs (using the syntax <span style=\"font-family: courier new\">dvdburn <em>dvddrive filename<\/em><\/span>). The result:<\/p>\n<p><em>Media type: DVD+R<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Preparing media&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; 100.0% done<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Finished Writing<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Waiting for drive to finalize disc (this may take up to 4 minutes)&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Success: Finalizing media took 22 seconds<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Burn successful!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, I bought myself a Sony DWG120A DVD\u00c2\u00b1RW dual layer recorder. Although I picked mine up as a \u00c2\u00a329.99 brown box deal in PC World, it is available for less on the &#8216;net (but that would have involved shipping costs and delays). It was a two-minute installation (open case, swap out old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/burn-dvds-from-windows-command-line.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burn DVDs from the Windows command line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-useful-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Burn DVDs from the Windows command line - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/burn-dvds-from-windows-command-line.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Burn DVDs from the Windows command line - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A few weeks back, I bought myself a Sony DWG120A DVD\u00c2\u00b1RW dual layer recorder. 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