It seems I would be better off not having my drive on my Sony VAIO PCG-K23 partitioned into C and D (this is a 60 GB laptop), but I can't figure out how to repartition and I seem to remember that if I do repartition, it wipes the drives clean to accomplish this. I have 36 GB freed up on my D drive, but I can't get the Nero program to choose the D drive instead of the C drive for these temporary files. And even though I DO have 810 MB on hard drive C, it will only allow 110 MB of video to be burned at one time.

But now I can only burn 3 files (110 MB) of video at a time because I consistently get a message when I push the burn icon that I don't have enough space to store the temporary files for the video. I was finally able to burn my AVI files that I had on a CD-R (in my laptop) to my outboard HP DVD. I really appreciate your time and effort. Nero ShowTime remains a decent solution, but the limited support for multimedia formats can deter many users who seek a software that can handle if not all at least the most common types available out there.Thanks for all the help. An interesting feature is the frame capture ability that helps you make snapshots from the currently playing video. The 'Preferences' menu offers you a lot of customizations for DVD, video or audio settings, to name only a few. The operating system switched off the Aero effects every time the app loaded a video file. The right-click menu also offers a comprehensive choice of features you can use and configure the playback to make it meet your exact needs and requirements.Ī minor problem we've experienced during our testing concerns the way Nero ShowTime gets along with Windows 7. The interface is pretty simple, with all the functions in plain sight.

Setting it up is piece of cake because the developers focused more on the way the application works and less on the methods it could involve the user in the process. The application handles AVI, VCD, miniDVD, Nero Digital, and some other formats but also multiple audio outputs such as Dolby Digital AC3, MPEG-1/-2, S/PDIF, and LPCM. Nero ShowTime isn't exactly the kind of software solution to play all file types, so it's only compatible with a few extensions, but it manages to do a pretty good job. Given the wide variety of audio and video formats, many players are developed to handle most of them and offer the best experience to all users. Managing and playing multimedia files is nowadays a very common task most of us are faced with almost on a daily basis.

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