DVDA Burn Speed

PeterMac wrote on 10/8/2004, 4:46 AM
Using DVDA 2.0b, I create a movie that occupies 2.27 GB
Still using DVDA, I attempt to burn this to DVD-R :-
1. Media Ritek 8x (G05 dye)
2. Pioneer 108 with 1.14 firmware
I select 8x from DVDA's speed selector and set it away.

It takes 8 mins 20 secs. It should have taken half that time.

Testing with other software - CloneDVD2 - I do achieve an 8x speed and take just over 4 minutes to burn the same material.

Can anyone tell me why?

-Pete


Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 10/8/2004, 8:01 AM
In my experience with an earlier 4x Pioneer burner, it was my conclusion that the reason I can burn much faster with Nero than with DVDA has to do with the inordinately long time that DVDA spends burning the "lead-in" and especially the "lead-out" sectors on the disk. Perhaps DVDA is doing something closer to "the book" on how it does this part of the burn, or perhaps it is just being stupid. I honestly don't know. Since I own Nero, and since it lets me do so many other things that DVDA doesn't (like burn data folders on my DVD), I use it almost exclusively for burning.
PeterMac wrote on 10/8/2004, 10:28 AM
Thanks for the reply.

I too have used Nero and find then that the full speed (8x) is reached.

Curiously, before I burned the DVD-R, I burned a DVD-RW for testing purposes. This was a Verbatim disc rated at 4x speed. It was actually a few (15) seconds quicker than the 8x Ritek!

My suspicion is that DVDA doesn't 'know' about the Ritek and therefore disregards my input speed of 8x in favour of its default of 4x

Apart from this anomaly, it doesn't really matter. The DVD it produced works fine and I'm happy with it. But I think in future that if I'm going to use the faster - and therefore more expensive - media, I'll leave the burning to Nero.

-Pete
johnmeyer wrote on 10/8/2004, 1:50 PM
You might want to submit this in a bug report to Sony (use the Support -> Email Support link above). They need to know about problems with specific burners.