writing speeds are not as fast as media
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CrashMogan
writing speeds are not as fast as media
writing speeds are considerable lower than media (rated at 8x or 16x). I have installed patches and support (when you used to be able to call them) had no explaination except to install patches. I have memorex and sony burners and only burn about 2 gig of space. On 8x media writing speeds are 3x and on 16x media are 6.4x. When I used to use 4x media the writing speed was 4x. I'm currently using MF3 and have tried trai version MF4 but no improvement.
It could be anything....The drive's firmware
The drivers
The operating system
The application (Movie Factory)
Your CPU could be too slow, or it could be busy multitasking in the background.
The drive's firmware reports the drive capability to the driver. The driver talks to the operating system. The operating system talks to the application.
Have you tried any other burning software? If Nero or Roxio works at full speed, then you know it's Movie Factory.
Have you checked the Sony & Memorex web sites for firmware and driver updates? (I wouldn't expect both to have the same problem, though.) How about Windows updates?
Oh, have you enabled DMA for your burners & your hard drive? That made a huge difference on my system (I only have a 4X burner).
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Before you get yourself too deep into this problem....
I have a 16x Dual layer Burner and I purchase 8x discs.
It has been my experience that it is best never to burn faster than 4x when creating a video DVD. If you do then you will find that many standalone DVD players will either not play the DVD at all or will play them with errors.
Burn at 4x and you get a DVD player that (so far) plays in everything.
One of our forum members, I think it was Devil examined the surface of some DVD disks with a special microscope and found that the discs created at higher speeds had smaller burn pits than those burned at the lower speeds.
I have a 16x Dual layer Burner and I purchase 8x discs.
It has been my experience that it is best never to burn faster than 4x when creating a video DVD. If you do then you will find that many standalone DVD players will either not play the DVD at all or will play them with errors.
Burn at 4x and you get a DVD player that (so far) plays in everything.
One of our forum members, I think it was Devil examined the surface of some DVD disks with a special microscope and found that the discs created at higher speeds had smaller burn pits than those burned at the lower speeds.