NEC ND -1100a

[lordmajax]

I bought this burner with my Dell PC. It burns 4x on dvd+r. Could someone tell me how to find out the speed it burns with cd-rw? Also, does anyone know if I can upgrade and install a faster dvd+r? It takes me like 2 hours to burn a dvd. I usuall burn a couple of 20-25 minutes clips on them. I use Nero burning program and I'm not sure if it's the program or the DVD burner. Is 4x a slow burning speed? TIA

[GKar]

DVD: 4x DVD+R, 2.4x DVD-RW, DVD Read 12x
CDRW: 16x CDR, 10x CDRW, 40x Read

Should only take about 15 minutes to burn a DVD with a 4x DVD+R disk from exisiting data on the hard disk.

[lordmajax]

15 minutes? When I burn with Nero it first converts the mpg's and then burns them. I must be doing something wrong then.

[GKar]

It does take 15 minutes for me and you to burn....Your post said nothing about file conversions. With Nero 5.5 and TmpGenc Author I can take take a 2 hour mpeg2 and in about 1/2 hour have it authored and burned to a DVD.

[proxyx99]

Check idrive properties in your DVD burning program. It will show you all speeds and limitations of your drive. Some programs force to make 1st disk to be burned at a "safe" speed and then unlock all other speeds. You need to play with it for a bit to get to know it or call Dell tech support if you suspect a tech. issue. To me it looks like a software setting issue (if it reencodes, runs test burn and the burns, you may easy be over 2 hrs.) Get to know it.

[lordmajax]

Does Nero 6 do that encoding you were mentioning? When I use Nero 6 for a Mpg there's a top bar and bottom bar. Once the top bar is done the bottom bar gets filled. I usually burn about 4 different movies onto the one disc. Short films. I should use tmpeg for encoding it to the correct format for burning then?

[proxyx99]

Nero has mpeg2 transcoder so the delay may be just that. Top bar shows process progress, bottom is buffer status. Beside that, the window above will show you exactly whats happening in plain English. As I said, enable logging and you'll know everything step by step, minute by minute.
Btw. read your screen carefully, that helps a lot.

PS. don't forget that you have HELP feature built in to answer most of your questions