Nero - Burning Rom 5.5.9.9 Supporting CD-R/RW drives it has been bundled with Copyright 1995 - 2002 ahead software gmbh Updated November-11-2002 1. What's new in Nero 5.5 ========================= * VCD/SVCD Menu Creator Now you can add onscreen menus to your Video and Super Video CDs. These menus are like "cover pages" for your discs, making it easy to select tracks for playback. Your menus can even include... . o music-viewers can "groove" while they select their "grooves" o "thumbnail" previews-small, clickable still-images from your tracks * Audio Plug-In Interface New audio formats appear all the time---and Nero helps you keep up with them. Nero 5.5's Audio Plug-in Interface makes it easy to create your own custom-written support files (DLLs) for the new formats of your choice. Programming knowledge and extra third party tools required. * Nero Wave Editor Say goodbye to complex external editing applications-the new built-in ultrafast Wave Editor makes Nero your all-in-one editing/burning solution! Look at these features: o Non-destructive editing lets you try many options and undo all changes. o A range of audio-processing options gives you complete control over your audio files before you record them to disc. o Real-time "audition" lets you select and hear effects in real time, as your soundfile plays. o Preset Manager lets you save your frequently-used settings. o Sample format conversion, anti-aliasing filters, dithering, noise shaping... and much more! * Advanced Nero Cover Designer Design your own CD graphics quickly and easily with Nero's updated Cover Designer. The Designer helps you produce impressive, professional-looking layouts for your CD booklets and inserts. The Cover Designer includes: o Assorted graphic effects o Customizable design templates o Multi / Maxi album support o Predefined paper stocks o Starter label pack (in Retail Package version) * Nero MPEG 1 Video Encoder The DVD format has revolutionized home video. Recordable DVD is still in the future, but the Video CD and Super Video CD formats are available now to home movie-makers. For some time, Nero has allowed you to make VCD and SVCD discs from MPEG files-but Nero 5.5 goes much further. Until now, Video CD creation was a time-consuming process requiring multiple applications. With Nero's new high-quality MPEG 1 encoder, simply drag your AVI video files into your CD layout, and Nero converts them to MPEG! Your disc is then ready to be burned as a Video CD, playable on your PC or in compatible DVD players. Aspiring directors can also use Nero's new VCD/SVCD menu-creator for basic video authoring (see below). * Nero Toolkit Including: Nero CD Speed Nero CD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive: o transfer rate, o seek times, o CPU usage, o burst rate, o DAE quality, o transfer rate, o spinup/spindown time. Furthermore, Nero CD Speed has a function to check the exact write speed of CD-Recorders from the first to the last sector of a CD-R/RW. * Nero Drive Speed Nero Drive Speed is a utility to change the read speed of CD-ROM drives and recorders. High speed drives can be very noisy when running at full speed. This can be irritating when playing multimedia files such as MP3 or video files. Reducing the speed not only reduces the noise but also decreases the spinup and spindown times. This can greatly improve playability of games who need to access the CD-ROM drive. And more-including: o True multitasking recording engine simultaneously records up to 32 CD-R/RW drives (*)(**) o Record verification option ensures crucial data precision o Virus Checker (*) scans the files of the compilation before burning to CD o Advanced Nero Imagedrive (*) enables users to view or run the contents of an image file through Microsoft Explorer prior to burning o CD Extra format pre-mastering support o Win NT4/2000 security select which users are allowed to burn under Win NT4/2000 - no administrator rights required anymore (*) only available in the Nero Retail Package (**) special edition of Nero 5.5 2. Changes in previous versions that you should be aware of Version 5.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~ * Supports burning on multiple recorders simultaneously. * Support for the Super Video CD format * Support of more than one filter for each audio item * Most audio filters can be tested and used in realtime now * Support of crossfading between several audio tracks * Support for the free online internet cd database http://freedb.freedb.org (up- and download of cd entries containing title and artist information) * Support for local program and user cd databases * Support for reading and writing M3U playlists * Possibility to automatically add CD Text during copies of audio CDs * The "Save track" dialog is able to generate more obvious file names for stored audio tracks. Instead of filenames like "Track01.wav" Nero can now also create filenames like "The Beatles - Help.wav" auto- matically. M3U playlists containing the titles of a CD can be created. * A completelely new burning engine was developed to reduce the CPU load and to make the burn process more robust. * Better audio index dialog with improved oscilloscope-style display * New Karaoke audio filter * Disc at once CDs no longer need to be fixated (if the recorder supports this feature) * New ram buffer property page, that allows to set the amount of Nero's ram buffer. * Improved burn status, that displays the recorder buffer level (if supported by the recorder) * CD Extra and multisession CDs can now be copied by Nero * Support for Windows 2000 Some of these features may be unavailable in OEM versions of Nero. Version 4.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~ * Nero doesn't support 16bit Windows 3.x any more. ================================================ The final version with Windows 3.x support is Nero 4.0.3.0 * 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 '4. Burning MP3 files (.mp3) with Nero') + Nero Wizard for simple CD creation * No support for Windows 3.1x * Languages + Chinese traditional (="Chinese(Taiwan)") + Danish + Dutch + English + French + German + Italian + Japanese + Norwegian + Portuguese + Russian + Spanish + Swedish + Hungarian + Chinese simple (="Chinese_People's Republic of China") 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 and Win 2k ========================================================== 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. How to get technical support =============================== Send e-mail to support@nero.com or visit us at http://www.nero.com or fax +49 7248 911 888 anytime Tel: 0190 871086 (only for Germany)Download Driver Pack
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