Re: Takes forever to burn a DVD

Dave Garrett <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:MPG.20c4f40ab1ccf08c98a1ae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

In article <DX76i.6231$1I1.2900@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, raykosXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
says...

A simple project: make a DVD-R consisting of just two 20-minute wma
files, unaltered in any way by me. Took about three hours to burn it;
plays perfectly.

Software: Roxio Creator 8 Suite Home, v3.0.0. After burning, DVD is
closed, so nothing more can be added to it. The "verify data written
to disc after burning" box is not checked.

Burner: Lite-on sohw-1633s (nominal burn speed, 16x). Device Manager
shows the driver to be a standard Microsoft one, dated 11/14/99.
Lite-on has a firmware update dated 12/16/05 that I have not
installed yet.

Computer: Processor - AMD, about 1 GHz); 512MB.

OS: W2K, SP4.

I've looked for hidden settings in the Roxio program that may affect
burn speed, but can't find any. Any other ideas for speeding things
up? Burner records CDs at a very good speed (over 24x, even though
Roxio reports target speed as 48x).

Your drive settings may have reverted to PIO from DMA. I'd never heard
of this until recently, and sure enough it had happened on my machine
as well (AMD Athlon XP1700+, 1GB, also running W2K). Check out these
links for more info:

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

http://www.aiscl.co.uk/How_to_ForceDMA.htm

http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t247623.html

http://sniptools.com/tipstricks/getting-back-to-dma-mode-in-windows-xp


Dave


The source of your problem is right in your first sentence. You cannot
simply burn wma files to a disc to make a DVD. They must first be
transcoded to VOB files that meet certains standards for frame size and
audio/video bit rates. The first 90% of the three hours was transcoding
and the remainder was the actual burning of the converted files.

.

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