What do you use (slow???) DVD-RAM for?

[dvdjojo]

I just bought my first DVD-burner LG4081B and a couple of DVD-RAM disks. I expected to be able to DV capture directly onto these disks or even just play a copied .avi file out of them.

What I am finding is that the speed so low that neither can be done. The capture simply doesn't happen and playing a copy of a captured DV file (.avi) chokes my media player into a stutter mode. I tried both UDF2.0 and FAT32 formatted disks without obvious difference.

Drag&drop style copying of files is nice and works but it takes 14 minutes to write a 1GByte file! Does it sound like I have a problem with my setup?

All other functionality on my system is pretty fast, DMA=on, and I never drop frames when capturing, burning DVD-R is quite fast, etc. In my EZDVTEST or the Pinnacle Studio8 perftest I can not select the DVD-RAM drive to measure the real DVD-RAM performance so I don't have a real number.

I am hearing DVD-RAM is popular with the video people so what do you do with it? What do you find so great on them?

[rcb]

From "What is DVDR" :

DVD-RAM
DVD-RAM has the best recording features but it is not compatible with most DVD-ROM drives and DVD-Video players. Think more of it as a removable hard disk.