burning music CD -- big disappointment

defucius wrote on 8/26/2002, 7:31 PM
Well, I asked about burn-proof before, and learned to enable it in VV3. Now when time came for the real job -- unfortunately, vv3 let me down.

I tred to burn a music cd with VV3, and after three tries and three toasters, I turned to Easy CD creator, which finished the job beautifully.

My system is an Athlon 1.2 Ghz, 20GB system harddrive (10GB free) 80 GB data drive. And the burner is a Plextor 12-10-32. Both harddrive defragged before the job.

VV3 failed with a buffer under run error everytime. The three tries all have create temporary harddrive image turned on, and burning speed at 8x, 4x, and 2x.

Our of curiosity, I burned another exact copy with the dumb-minded plextor software. it actually showed the buffer level at all time, and it had never gone down below 85% burning at 8x speed.

Is there any compatibility issues between VV3 and Plextor 12-10-32? It seems that the buffer management of VV3 is simply not up to the task. And burn-proof was not enabled at all.

Any ideas?

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vinmangraphics wrote on 8/26/2002, 7:54 PM
There have been other messages on this board about incompatibilities with some plextor drives.
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=93741

Not sure if this has been resolved (as I have a Yamaha, and it doesn't affect me).

- vin


defucius wrote on 8/26/2002, 8:07 PM
Yes, I searched the forum, too. The past posts seems to focus on the 24x plextor drive. Mine is an older drive 12x, don't know if it is also affected.
Cheesehole wrote on 8/28/2002, 5:36 AM
might have something to do with the location of that 'temporary image'. is EZ CD making a temp image too? is it on a different drive than Vegas's temporary image?

that could account for the difference if one drive or partition is not performing as well. just a guess.
Ted_H wrote on 8/28/2002, 9:42 AM
Well, I asked about burn-proof before, and learned to enable it in VV3.

In the internal preferences? The internal preferences are not meant to be changed, which is why they are hidden. I would strongly recommend that you change the burn proof setting back to the default.

Ted
defucius wrote on 8/28/2002, 1:16 PM
The default is disable burn-proof. I can't imagine how that would help? Can you elaborate a little, please?
Ted_H wrote on 8/28/2002, 2:42 PM
Are you able to burn a CD if you change it back?

Ted