How to control DVD burning speed
V S Rawat
To my dismay, I found that it is taking all the decision itself.
I can't even control the rate at which the DVD is burnt.
The problem, I have been told by my hardware man, is that
- dvds have a max speed of getting burnt. He said that it also
implies that a dvd will get burnt at a minimum-maximum speed and
will not get burnt below the minimum speed nor above the maximum
speed IRRESPECTIVE OF the capability of the writer to burn at
entire range of speeds.
- dvd players have a max speed of reading. Probably a minimum
speed also.
It all leads to my previous 4 year old dvd reader not being able
to read any dvd that I am burn on my new dvd writer.
After burning to dvds, I have deleted my things from my hdd to
spare online space. Then, I found that those dvds are not
getting read by my previous reader. I am stuck.
I have burnt them at 8x dvds on my writer, and my hardware man
told me that my previous reader can manage at most 2x. I tried
and found that my nero, firstly, mentions only a few speeds
while burning, and, secondly, it ignores the speed selected by
me from the list, and starts burning at some other rate.
Then, I got 16x dvds, and the hardware man, who knew what I was
thinking, already told me that it can't be written below 8x.
I thought that while copying from dvd to a new cd/ dvd I will
directly read from these dvds in my older player, and burn in my
new writer, but no way. I have to copy files from dvds to hdd
and then burn to new cd/dvds.
Any software that would give me better control of writing
speeds? or, any other method.
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Rawat
Abhay Jain
"V S Rawat" <VSR...@Invalid.none> wrote in message
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I am reminded of a story of Issac Newton
and the two holes he wanted made in the door
for his cats.
AJ
Deepak Sabnis
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First of all your HW man if full of guess work. All drives have a max speed
specification. They can work at any speed upto that speed. 4X means 4 times
faster than it's normal play time. The speed of burning has nothing to do
with the ability of a DVD player (including those in the computers) to play
a DVD. It is usually related to the type of media (DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW etc
etc) and recording quality (how much you jam on the disc - Indian movie DVDs
freeze often because they record too much stuff on the disc).
It is the SW that querries the HW to find out what it can do and then
instructs it what to do. But that requires installation of SW that has all
its body parts working. Which brings me to the question - did you pay for
Nero software or was it "bundled" with the HW (as seems to be the practice
in India). "Bundled" SW is always buyer beware.
Deepak
Deepak Sabnis
You may also wish to look at
http://hometheater.about.com/od/dvdrecorderfaqs/a/dvdrecfaqintro.htm
Lots of good information.
Deepak
"Deepak Sabnis" <deepak...@hp.com> wrote in message news:...
Prithviraj Dasgupta
In Nero 6 (bundled NeroVision Express 3 software used to burn DVDs),
the final screen before you hit "Burn" says "Set the parameters for
burning". One of the parameters is a drop-down menu called "Recording
speed" which ranges from 1X to a 'max speed', in steps of 1. When the
DVD R/W drive is empty, max speed is the maximum speed the DVD R/W
drive can accommodate, . If you insert a blank DVD-R/W disk into the
drive, the max speed in the "recording speed" menu adjusts to the max
speed the disk can support
IME, Nero 6 works fine for any speeds between 1X to max speed.
rec.video.desktop is an appropriate NG (more informed people) for such
queries. www.videohelp.com is a great site with lots of Q&A.
-Prithviraj
V S Rawat
yeah that "writing speed" drop down is always listing just one
or two spped here. And all those speeds are smaller than the
declared speed of dvd disk. Moser Baer dvd has 16x stamped over
it, but all I get in "writing speed" drop down is 12x and 8x.
Definitely not 1x or 2x.
> One of the parameters is a drop-down
> menu called "Recording speed" which ranges from 1X to a 'max
> speed', in steps of 1. When the DVD R/W drive is empty, max
> speed is the maximum speed the DVD R/W drive can accommodate,
> . If you insert a blank DVD-R/W disk into the drive, the max
> speed in the "recording speed" menu adjusts to the max speed
> the disk can support
>
> IME, Nero 6 works fine for any speeds between 1X to max speed.
mine doesn't.
>
> rec.video.desktop is an appropriate NG (more informed people)
> for such queries. www.videohelp.com is a great site with lots
> of Q&A.
ok. shall visit. thanks.
>
> -Prithviraj
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Rawat
V S Rawat
yeah. Nero 6 was bundled with it.
I had some previous version of Nero that I wanted to retain, but
I found that it didn't have dvd-capability so I had to upgrade.
I have heard that Nero 7 has also been released. Would that
rectify my problem and would allow me to select whatever speeds
are hardware-istically possible?
for that matter, I have heard of people downgrading from Nero 7
to Nero 6 as they felt that Nero 7 is having too many options
for multimedia that they found confusing.
>
> Deepak
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Rawat