Please Help! -- DVD Burn

[Vman]

I'm writing an app in VB6, is there any way to burn to a DVD (internal and external)?

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

[Davadvice]

hi and welcome to the Forum,

firstly i would sugest you change the title of the thread, "please help" dosn't really highlight anything.

when you say internal and external can you please be more specific? are you talking about the location of the drive ?

thanks

David

[Hack]

Welcome to the forums.

If you want to burn it to a DVD for distribution, then the first step is to create and installation and setup package. That is what would go on the DVD.

[Vman]

Thanks for the reply.
You're right about the Topic, it has been changed.

I have an external dvd burner, I have an app that will query a DB and I need for the selected results to get sent to the external burner. The selected results are locations of files (.zip, .jpg, etc)
So I guess I would need location, and ability to do the actual burn.

I've been researching this for some time now and haven't really found much help.

[Hack]

So, you want to burn the results, not the program itself, right?

[Vman]

That is correct.

[Vman]

I did find something that references cDiscMaster...but can't make heads or tails of it at the moment.

[Hack]

cDiscMaster sounds like a class of some sort. Where did you find it?

Does your burner have an SDK?

[Vman]

I found cDiscMaster from vbaccelerator.com

I believe the burner came with Nero.

[Hack]

Was there any documentation with it?

[Vman]

Not that I can find.
When I plug the external dvd into my pc, I don't need nero to burn...just drag and drop through Windows XP.
Hence, I never installed Nero.
I'm sure the IT Dept. has it somewhere, but as of now no documentation.

[Hack]

No, no, I meant documentation on how to use the class you found on vbaccelerator.com.

What happens if you just copy a file through Windows XP to the DVD....does it get burned?

If so, then maybe a simple FileCopy from your VB program would fit the bill.

[Vman]

Come to find out that I HAVE to install Nero 7 in order to use the ext. dvd burner.

Now I guess my new problem is 'How do I use the nero librarys'?
I can add them in the references, but can't find any kind of documentation on how to use the DVD burner from VB or any other outside medium.

I did try the Filecopy, then I tried Windows SHFILEOPSTRUCT filecopy, niether worked.

BTW, thanks for the help.

[Hack]

You may need to go to your IT people and see if they will part with the documentation.

You also might be able to find some stuff on the Nero site (whatever that is. )

[Vman]

ok.
Again thanks for the help.

[Hack]

My pleasure.

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Thank you.

[Vman]

I technically do not have my answer, just a new unresolved direction.