DVD-R to DVD-R - Quickest Software??

[MicoMan]

I'm having a bit of trouble making a back-up of a back-up.

I have a Memorex DVD-Rom drive and an LG 4x DVD Writer.

I have used Nero Express and CloneDVD to copy these discs but they both seem very slow and reading an image of the disc? I think both my drives are 12 speed readers but is it not the same for DVD-R's?

Its taking me about 30 mins to get an image and then about 15mins for the write at 4x.

Is there any quicker software?

[noki]

what's your hurry? your posted times are fine for the AVERAGE person's backup needs. you did not post a trans/encoding time, which would be the longest. are all your dvds D5s?

[MicoMan]

I'm also getting errors on reading with Nero and the Rom drive so I could do with trying another program. Never liked Nero for disc copying. Got errors with CD copying before.

Time! When I have 10 copies to do every min counts. Mate can do his in under 20 mins on the fly

Just thought someone may have had better results with another program?

[SaSi]

Recorded DVDs are slow in reading. Mostly give 2x or 2.5x reading speed, although at times you may get 4x for a couple of minutes at the end.

For large scale duplication work, copy the DVDR on disk and make a project to record from the HD. This way you will be able to burn at full speed (4x or 8x) and avoid the read time

[iooi]

Time! When I have 10 copies to do every min counts. Mate can do his in under 20 mins on the fly

Just thought someone may have had better results with another program?

One of the quickest ways is just to drag the files of the disk onto your hard drive and burn them from there...
At a guess i would say you have a bad disk you are trying to copy from, the worse the disk the longer the reading takes....
By bad i mean scratched or the media used isnt very good...