Does it make a differance at what speed you burn your VCD?

[Dpick]

I keep reading in all these replies in these forums about recording there VCD files at 4x or below to avoid problems in playback. My burner can only go at an max of 20x, considering CD-RW drives can burn at 52x on an CD-r disk now, I thought mine was getting slow. I keep getting contradicting answers that there is no differance at what speed you record at, as long as the media can support it. I'd like to open up the replies and get an close to conclusive answer as to what is the big deal to how fast you record your CD-R at. As long as the CD-R disk supports your drives highest speed?[/img]

[pbhalerao]

My CD writer is TDK veloCDRW 32/10/40. It can write at 32x max. Initially I used to be sceptical at writing at high speeds. However, since then I have tried all speeed including 32x and have had no problems at all. The VCD were read without any problems on my standalone DVD player. Just make sure of the following:

- Use CD-R(W) of well known brands
- I use Nero to write. I always check the option 'Determine Maximum Write Speed'. If you use Nero check this option on. On other writer s/w, see if there is such an option available and if so, check it on.

Regards,

[tastypoison]

I haven't seen any issues with VCD, but I did have some weirdness with SVCD that has me burning no faster than 24x.

I had SVCD's of Futurama episodes that would fit 2 on a disk. Using nero, a 5 second pause was specified at the end of each track. So, the first episode should have played, paused 5 seconds, and then the second episode begin.

Well, at high speed burn (32x or 40x), the video would pause for 5 seconds, but the audio of the second episode would begin immediately with no pause. once the video began, it was still in sync - but this was unnerving since it wasn't working as it should.

Through trial and error, I found that it didn't occur at 24x or lower...so I've been burning at 24x ever since.

Of course it could be something specific to my setup:
Plextor 40/12/40 ide
FujiFilm 48x CD-R Blanks
Nero Burning Rom
JVC SV-300BK (Standalone DVD Player)

[fossil]

8X is a safe bet

[thxkid]

well all I can tell you the max speed on my DVD burner for CD is 12x so I was burning all my VCD's at 12x, until this weekend when the 2nd disc of 3 copies I ran on 2 different brands of CD-R's would pixelate then just lockup about 3/4 way outward on the disc, I played the original MPEG1 VCD on my hard drive(disc 2) and it played fine, I reburned the 2nd disc using the same brands and cut the speed to 4x, wahla, all 3 play back fine, so if you decide to burn faster than 8x, better be prepared to find a bad burn every once and awhile, thats if you want to check every disc you burn before blowing away the mpegs on your hard drive, more time consuming if you do alot of burning is just slow it to a safer speed, I have had no probs at the 8x and had burned about 20 VCD's with no probs at 12x until I ran into this mess, go figure.

[Vejita-sama]

Before I got my DVD writer I burned everything (mostly xSVCDs) at 24x which was full speed and never had anyproblems. This is with the liteon drive using TKD media.

[kukm66]

I am currently burning at 32X wth my TDK which maxes out at 48X.
I have had no problems at all.

[freak_in_cage_10k]

As far as i am aware it varies greatly, depending on the quality of your burner. you cant go wrong with 8x, but if you have a good quality burner (i would reccomend Plextor) then you should have no probs at much higher speeds. i burn at 24x with my Plexwriter 24/10/40A and have no probs)

[Dubber]

IMHO...

Theoretically speaking, the 'quality' of the burn should depend on:
1) intensity of the laser,
2) sensetivity of the CD-R's reflective surface,
3) time the laser had contact with the surface.

So, basically, the more powerful laser, slower speeds and more sensitive CD-Rs will give you a 'better burn'.

[MOVIEGEEK]

2 surefire ways for good results:
1)Use QUALITY media(Taiyo-Yuden or Mitsubishi)

2)Never buy higher speed media than your burner's max.speed (see "Dubbers" post)

[wwaag]

I usually burn SVCDs. I've got a LiteOn that burns at 48x. However, I found that anything over 24X even with good media rated at 48X is risky. Hence, I go back to 16X.

One point to put this in perspective. Using DVD2SVCD, it usually takes 5 to 6 hrs to create an image file ready for burning (using 2 pass TMPGENC). The difference in burn time between 2.5 min and 5 min isn't very much--especially, when it takes so long to prepare the image. Bottom line--the slower, the safer. At 16X, I've had no problems. Just my 2 cents!!

[Still Learning Here]

alway burned at slow speed that what I figured out after throw away few fisbee(cd). I have a cheap Cicero that rated at 40x. I have problem 2 in a row at 40x(pixelate and freeze). Then reduce to 32x still have problem. Then 24x still get that that pixelate. Then finally at 16x it seem to run ok now. So I guess the disc should label at 16x not 40x.