Burning at Specific Speeds

[Trid3nt]

Should I be worried about burning my VCDs at a high speed like 24x? Just wondering because I have heard that on other things (like MP3 players that also do videos) the speed is relative to how fast the CD is read from the player. Not sure if this applies. Can I burn at will?

[vcdfreak]

My opinion on burning practice optimum data integrity:

Max Writer Speed / 2

or

Max Media Speed / 2

with Media Speed takes the priority.


The reason is based on some manufacturing engeering principles that things always get worse at the extremes. Testing might caught problems at the extremes but it may pass the test marginally which in some case, marginal products escape the quality check and give you headache at the end user side. This is very common. It also depends on the quality assurance practice of the manufacturer. Usually it has a close relationship with the economy.

[Vejita-sama]

This is a topic of much debate. For what it's worth, I have the Liteon 24x CDRW drive and always burn at full speed. I've never had a problem.

Before the liteon I had an 8x Plextor SCSI drive. I noticed that if I didn't copy PSX discs at 1x or 2x (normally 1x) I would have audio problems.

So the drive does matter. But there are a lot of people that burn at full speed and have no problems.

[Craig Tucker]

In my case it depends on the medium I am burning to, I use intenso 80 min 32X cdr's and infinity 99 min 32X cdr's. My burner is a Mirai CRD-BP1500 24x10x40. I can burn the intenso's at 24 speed no problem, but the infiniti's need to be burned at 4-8X to work ok. If I burn then any faster the video gets all screwed up and the sound goes out of sync when played in my stand alone DVD player

Craig