I bought an external usb 2 LG (GSA-2164D) 16x DVD burner which came with NEro 6. Now when burning films to DVD it takes a bloody age. Usually between 1.5-2 hours for a 4,7gb single layer DVD+ disc. IS this normal or is there a setting I am missing which is making this thing take so long. I can't recall it taking so long even on my old 4x DVD+ drive and I have heard times of 10-15mins quoted elsewhere. Is it because of USB 2.0 which I got instead of firewire. Help, I'm so fed up with archiving it's doing my head in.
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Are you sure it's running in USB 2.0 mode? That sounds more like USB 1.1 times.
And you are using Nero. Are you sure Nero isn't doing it's typical re-encoding and that's what's taking all the time?
And no, that's not normal.
16X DVD media should take about 6 minutes to burn, though 12X is sometimes a better choice, depending on the media used. If you are just burning the VIDEO_TS folder, use ImgBurn instead. It won't re-encode.
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HO can I assertain what the computer USB mode is. Ie how can I find and change the usb to use 2.0 if it is defaulting to the old mode? I aint computer savvy
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To see if you have USB 2.0 in your system: 'Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>Universal Serial Bus controllers' and look for a 'Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller. The important word here is 'Enhanced'. If you see that, you should have a USB 2.0 setup. Any of the rear USB jacks on the computer should work as USB 2.0 then. Occasionally the front USB jacks are USB 1.1 on a few systems.
If you don't see the 'Enhanced', then you either don't have the proper upgrade, or you need to add a USB 2.0 PCI card.
The SP1 update should have USB 2.0 capability built in. -
A DVD burner can never go slower than 1x, which equates to ~1hr., so if it's going longer than that, it must be doing something else in addition (like RE-ENCODING
). Use an authoring program that's smart enough to leave good streams alone when you tell it to...
Scott
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