Computers and Related Hardware/Software

Anime Dad wrote:It should be able to do it without anything extra being installed. But i've never used XP to burn stuff to CD :beaten:

Edit: See here: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t187515.html

Thanks for the link, AD. This computer was already set in Japanese and now I'm in the process of downloading the Japanese language pack for Nero. It looks like the language pack doesn't work for someone on that forum, but I'm desperate to try any method to get this to work.

EDIT: Great. The version I have is not a "demo," so the language pack is not compatible. :banghead:

Sorry for the double post. I finally got the answer after searching a half an hour for a post that someone made on my LJ over a year ago.

For anyone who needs this info on how to get Japanese characters to appear in Nero, go to: Control Panel>Regional and Language Options>Advanced tab and change it to Japanese.

A ton of thanks to beem and AD for going out of their way to help me. You guys are awesome. :bow:

Glad you got it sorted, cori :)

Your DVD will show as crap on other computers tho. They are still burn in ansii instead of unicode. The problem is almost every burning software out there, including Nero doesn't support it. There are 3 or 4 software that fully support Unicode. The only free one is ImgBurn.

It's kind of hard to figure out how to do it at first tho. So here it is:

1. In the menu, select "Mode" and "Build".

2. Switch to device output by clicking the green play button with the CD on the bottom left. (Check the red circle on the image).

3. Browse for a folder where all you files you want to burn are by clicking on the yellow folder icon. (The one next to the "Source" list box)

4. You can change a few options, like the label and file system, but if you want unicode, you need to have UDF in the file system. You can even skip iso-9600, if you want to. Unless you have a really old OS. IIRC, the Xbox can't read newer stuff than 1.02. DVD-video uses 1.02. The UDF 1.02 format dates back from 1996. Anything built after that can read it.

# Windows 98/Me 1.02
# Windows 2000 1.02, 1.50
# Windows XP/2003 1.02, 1.50, 2.01
# Windows Vista 1.02, 1.50, 2.0x, 2.50, 2.60
# Mac OS X 10.4 1.02, 1.50

5. The write speed is in the "Device" tab. Max speed is never good, unless you don't mind losing your data in a year or two.

6. When you're ready to burn, you can click the big image in the bottom left. (Yellow folder and DVD)

7. That's it! With that, you can have Japanese characters in the label and files without weird file names. :)


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Awesome, t-san. I never knew any of that :) Both my work and home compys are set up for Asian fonts so I don't have that problem :)

No problem. :)

The only advantage of unicode is you can have multiple languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). You don't have to worry about various encoding too. For Japanese you have shift-jis, euc-jp, iso 2022... Not all set-top boxes and DVD players support those. =T

I had one at work for a few weeks. I had to change my case, cause the card was too long and a new power supply cause it needs 2 special plugs. (2x PCI-Express. 6 pins IIRC). You need at least 650~700 watts to run it.

I was unlucky. I sent the card on warranty (had problem with textures) and the store chain declared bankruptcy while my card was out. I have no idea where it is... :(

I had a BFG. Not too noisy and it came with a t-shirt. A coworker ran off with it tho. :grumble:

Question!!!
Is there software that translate English into Romaji or Romaji into English???

Daichi Kai wrote:Question!!!
Is there software that translate English into Romaji or Romaji into English???

Not that I know of...

For kana/kanji to romaji, there's a thread with a few softwares here. Most of them are made by Japanese University students and teachers. The documentation is in Japanese and the programs are in command line. Not really user friendly. They are probably the best that you'll find tho. There's another one I have at work, but can't remember the name. I'll post it in the above thread. :)

For romaji to kana/kanji, the best way is to type it with IME. A built in tool in XP that will convert what you type automatically. You can check how to setup it in: How to type in japanese with WIN XP and 2000

OK!!!
Thank you tabana...

You're welcome. :)

I added the 2 links for the programs.

sorry, i'm bad at this kinda stuff but...

tabana-san, once you burn it, do you burn it directly to the dvd or does create some sort of image file thingi? howeactly do you burn the image file thingi to the dvd? like usual?


btw, is their a program for making karaoke? some sort of minus one or somethin (is that what it's called?). so that i can take out the vocal sounds from my PV.

I have no idea how to create a karaoke CD. I think nero and others had that function a long time ago (before DVD burners), but no idea how it works. :(

monta wrote:tabana-san, once you burn it, do you burn it directly to the dvd or does create some sort of image file thingi? howeactly do you burn the image file thingi to the dvd? like usual?

It can do both. You can either click the little image (circled in red in the screenshot) or in the menu select "Output \ Device" (to burn) or "Output \ Image File" to create an iso image on the harddrive. In this case, select "device". You can select another CD/DVD burner in the combo box, if you have more than one.

There are programs that will "remove" vocals from audio tracks. But i depends how the original track was recorded on how successfully it works.

one gigabyte of memory 20 years ago and one gigabyte of memory today

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tabana wrote:I had one at work for a few weeks. I had to change my case, cause the card was too long and a new power supply cause it needs 2 special plugs. (2x PCI-Express. 6 pins IIRC). You need at least 650~700 watts to run it.

I was unlucky. I sent the card on warranty (had problem with textures) and the store chain declared bankruptcy while my card was out. I have no idea where it is... :(

I had a BFG. Not too noisy and it came with a t-shirt. A coworker ran off with it tho. :grumble:

oh i see yeah they take up quite alot of space.

lol damn your co worker

Tu_triky wrote:one gigabyte of memory 20 years ago and one gigabyte of memory today

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talk about changing times...when the computer was first invented it took up an entire room....now its fits on my lap

shiroi_tora wrote:

talk about changing times...when the computer was first invented it took up an entire room....now its fits on my lap

now it fits in my ear.

Tu_triky wrote:

now it fits in my ear.

a computer in your ear? Havent seen that before