DVD Records at 36X ???

[Gritz]

When I record a disc image of Ulead's Picture Show2 of about 1.5 GB the DVD recording is done in about 5 minutes at 36X with my Pioneer A05. The media I am using is DVD Pro which is only rated at 1x ..... so ....somebody fill me in, shouldn't the media complain? Perhaps this is normal for slides rather than motion vidoe??? Anyway it takes a couple of hours to create the disc image, but after that .... quick. Probably everybody knew about this but me?

[LanEvo7]

Does the disc work?

[Gritz]

Yes ..... it's identical to the others. I've read somewhere that a DVDs recording speed is not calculated the same as a CD-Rs recorded speed and that even 1X is not the same as 1X on a CD-R. 36X is the speed displayed by Uleads Image Recorder ..... however, the fact remains that the entire 1.5 GB was recorded in just over 5 minutes seems a little odd to me and too quickly for error free recording. Maybe this is normal and I'm making the wrong comparison by looking at the original encode to record the first disc time to the later recordings of just the image only! This is an 8 chapter geneology slide show of 522 pictures and 29 music selections. However .... thinking back, when I made copies of other slide shows using picture2tv all copies after the first (sometimes overnight) copy were much, much quicker. I'm not complaining about 5 minutes ... I just don't understand it.

[blacardi]

1,5 GB is 1/3th of dvdr size. 5 minutes is 1/3th of total burning time, when burning at 4x speed. So... the actual wierd part would be the 1x dvd pro media which succesfully is written at 4x.

I figure you're using a hacked firmware for youre drive that allows you to burn this 1x media at 4x speed.

Try burning a movie on that speed with same media... i'm interested in the lifetime of the burned dvd (use movie that exceeds 4GB).

[Gritz]

No hacked firmware .... unless my A05 came that way .... but it was in a retail box so I think not. Unfortunately I haven't found media that has been consistently good past about 3.7 GB ... tried Princo, Accu, DVDPro ... some are good and some are pixelated toward the end. I'm trying the Gold Topped Optodisk next. Now my burn programs mostly don't give me a choice of burn speeds ... it's 1X or 2X ... nothing faster, except Ulead's Pictureshow2 which only gives 2 speeds .... 4x and Max. Using "Max" I get the 36X up on the screen. This is an image file ... if that makes any difference ...... but it's still a DVD when it's finished. In any case ... I"m not complaining as I mentioned before .....

[poopyhead]

Unfortunately I haven't found media that has been consistently good past about 3.7 GB

that's very strange...3.7 GB is very low. how fast are you burning your DVDs?? are you always burning them faster than they're rated..maybe that's the problem...burn at 1X from now on and see if the pixelation problem goes away.

anywayz, for princo, i've found that the files burned above the 4.3 gig mark (i.e. between 4.3 - 4.38 gigs) have pixelation when played on my standalone, if i play those files repeatedly. doesn't occur when i play those in my DVD-ROM thou.

[Gritz]

Most of my DVDs are burned at 1X and I haven't a choice .... that's all that shows up. I thought it was labels so I left them off ....... but it didn't change the problem. After going through about 50 DVDs I decided it wasn't usually worth the trouble .... however .... If I want one bad enough I just keep burnin' em till one comes out right. I found the same result in my pc DVD ....... works fine .... but the standalones ... ughhh. I have 3 and they all display the same pixelation .... so I know it's not the players. I personally think it's poor media .... or a hardware anomaly with the media .... (Pioneer A)5) ... although I can't prove it. But I have burned over 100 DVDs this year so I've given it a fair try ...