Does the burning speed matter??

[Johan Josefsson]

Hello!

Is it better to burn in 2x rather than in 4x??

/Johan!

[redwudz]

Depends on your setup. I burn everything at 4X (Pioneer 106) and never had any problems. Never tried a lower speed. If you have burning failures, go ahead and try a lower speed. Or a better quality media.

[thor300]

The burn speed can do very big differences, i had incidents with VCD's that would not play in standalone (VCD player, not DVD) when burned at 24x, but played perfectly when burned at 16x. Same goes for DVD, but the media quality is still important, it can be better to have a quality disk burned at 4x than a cheap/bad disk burned at 2x, or even 1x. The quality of the dvd writer can also make big differences.

[tompika]

Depends on your setup. I burn everything at 4X (Pioneer 106) and never had any problems. Never tried a lower speed. If you have burning failures, go ahead and try a lower speed. Or a better quality media.

Same here with the Pioneer 106.

The only problem I had with some shitty Sky 4xDVD-R media that I had to write at 2x to be readable in standalone players
(Note: My friends' Nec1300 and LG4040 couldn't even write on those medias, they stopped during writing the lead-in.)

[gmatov]

How burn speed cannot be a media problem, I will never understand.

In the first place, if the dye will not take a 4X burn, it will not be a good burn, but will probably drop down to what IS a good burn rate.

Machines "calibrate" before they burn, I must research just exactly what "calibrate" entails, but have got to think it burns a few bytes, tries to read them, says no can do, drops burn rate to what the disk WILL accept.

If you have a laser that can burn at 8 X, it will produce a beam, at that speed, on off, at a given intensity. It won't give a beam that will burn at 8 X when run at 2 X or 1 X. Calibrates down to the laser intensity that a 1 or 2 X media requires. Else, it would burn through the diye layer, not because it focuses differently, farther, but because it gets that microscopic spot too hot, would melt a bubble iinto the recording layer.

Why would anyone buy an 8 X, or 4 X, and want to burn slower? Like buying a 52 X CD-R and burning at 2 X, which some proposed here when we were making VCD/SVCD.
Ah, well,

Cheers,

George