I work for a gov't agency that employees the use of in-car video cameras that record audio/video upon DVD-Rams. We mostly use double-sided DVD-Rams that contain 4.7 GB of storage per side (we must manually flip these over within the car's recorder to recorder to record on the second side).
A write-protect software program automatically protects the recorded data upon those DVD-Rams from being erased/altered. To erase and reuse a DVD-Ram that has already been recorded upon, we must use a different software program that we have installed on a desktop PC to disable the write-protect setting (upon disabling the write-protect, this software then automatically ejects the DVD-Ram whereby we then reinsert the DVD-Ram into the computer). We can then erase the recorded data upon a single side of that DVD-Ram. Then, for double-sided disks, we flip them over and repeat the process.
Is there any way to erase multiple DVD-Ram disks at a single time rather than going through the above process for each individual disk? I was thinking along the lines of a DVD-Ram "jukebox" that would allow several DVD-Rams to be placed within it for erasure and that would ideally allow the write-protect disabling software command to be made just once for all the inserted DVD-Rams rather than having to disable each one separately.
Or perhaps some of you have some other ideas? We have looked at replacing the DVD-Ram video cameras with hard-drive cameras transmitting data to a multi-terabyte server but found such a system to be, at present, cost-prohibitive.
Thanks for any advice you might be able to provide.
-Mark
A write-protect software program automatically protects the recorded data upon those DVD-Rams from being erased/altered. To erase and reuse a DVD-Ram that has already been recorded upon, we must use a different software program that we have installed on a desktop PC to disable the write-protect setting (upon disabling the write-protect, this software then automatically ejects the DVD-Ram whereby we then reinsert the DVD-Ram into the computer). We can then erase the recorded data upon a single side of that DVD-Ram. Then, for double-sided disks, we flip them over and repeat the process.
Is there any way to erase multiple DVD-Ram disks at a single time rather than going through the above process for each individual disk? I was thinking along the lines of a DVD-Ram "jukebox" that would allow several DVD-Rams to be placed within it for erasure and that would ideally allow the write-protect disabling software command to be made just once for all the inserted DVD-Rams rather than having to disable each one separately.
Or perhaps some of you have some other ideas? We have looked at replacing the DVD-Ram video cameras with hard-drive cameras transmitting data to a multi-terabyte server but found such a system to be, at present, cost-prohibitive.
Thanks for any advice you might be able to provide.
-Mark
