Long burning times-Pioneer 104-

[schultzie73]

Is it normal for the burning time of a 3.8gig file to be over 2 and a half hours using primo dvd, and princo 1x dvd-rw media. I have been burning backups of xbox games with my cd-rw drive and just recieved my Pioneer104 burner today. I haven't tried to burn any large files yet due to the long burning times. I have burnt a Gba emulator for the xbox (380mb). The program said it would take about 5 min. to burn it and it ended up taking exactly 1 hour (works though). This makes me wonder how long it would take for the 3.8gig file when the program said it would take 2hours and 45min. I was in the process of burning a backup (3.8gig) and after 2 hours,with the status bar only half,way I gave up. I am using the write only option (no test and verify). I have searched this forum and many others and I still haven't found any help.

PLEASE HELP
THANKS!!!

[resnullius]

sorry didn't read the whole post b4 answering my answer was irrelavent

[ABEG]

I believe there is a problem with the Pioneer 104 when writing small files. I have read that it needs to fill a certain amount of space and it usually means that the lead-out will take a longer amount of time with small files, but it should not take an hour as you stated, especially for such a small file. Many users find that by changing the status of the IDE channel that the DVD Burner is on from UDMA to PIO or vice-versa will improve and/or elimate burning irregularities and/or problems.

[schultzie73]

there is defenitley a problem. I started to burn a 3.8gig file last nite before I went to bed and right now (7 hours later) it is at 85% done.l

[schultzie73]

"Many users find that by changing the status of the IDE channel that the DVD Burner is on from UDMA to PIO or vice-versa will improve and/or elimate burning irregularities and/or problems"

Please explain this, I have heard it before. I have windows xp and I remember I was trying to fine the udma settings but couldn't.

[schultzie73]

Ok, I switched it from dma to pio and that didn't help either, however when I use Nero to burn a dvd-rw, the burning times are normal (13min for 900mb). I can't seem to get nero to except a DVD iso image file over 2 gigs thought. Anybody now how to change this?

[schultzie73]

I got it working now. I had to get the px update then switch my dma to pio. Thanks guys!

[Anonymous65]

Buring a full DVD-R disk at 1X takes about 50 minutes. The creation of VOB and DVD-R image files can take an hour if your PC is slow.

Also, even if you put 10 seconds of video on the DVD-R, it will still burn 3/4 of the disk before done. So, burning over 1 hour video or just 10 seconds takes the same amount of time. It has something to do with the Lead-out. I have heard of a new feature called "rapid eject" where you can burn a small file and you do not need burn the rest of the disk with lead out data.

[PhilipL]

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