Burner only up to 4x speed

[chewie8008]

Ok, my dvd burner recently started burning in 4x speed and won't go any higher. I have went to device manager and checked the DMA/PIO mode. My primary IDE channel(which I believe is the cdrw drive that came w/ the PC) is in Ultra DMA Mode 5 and the Secondary IDE Channel(which is the DVD burner) is in Ultra DMA Mode 2. My only option is to change from 'DMA if available" or "PIO Mode". The dvd burner is a Pioneer 107D. I've made a lot of backups w/ no errors. But i'm thinking this may be it for this burner.

Could an individual DVD just be causing it to burn in 4x? I have Meet Joe Black ripped to the PC(which I ripped about a month ago) and never got around to burning it. I never touched the files inside the folder or moved it anywhere. But could this dvd just be causing the problem? I could just try another DVD but I don't want to have two sets of DVD files on the PC at once and would rather not rip the same DVD twice.

I think the PC I have listed in my profile is my other(newer) PC. So here's the stats for this one:


Compaq Presario 6010
AMD Athlon 1600+
1.4ghz
224mb RAM
the VC is a Geforce 2200 I think...

Thanks for any help.

[sacajaweeda]

If it's still writing fine at 4x then "thinking this may be it for this burner" wouldn't seem to be very right. What's the rush? You say you ripped the movie like a month ago...is that extra 5 minutes that critical? 8)

[jimmalenko]

Any chance you've purchased a batch of 4X media ?

[mike487]

had a similar prob about a year ago my burner is 4x max and i bought some staples +r blanks and it started burning at 2.4x when all other media would burn at 4X(the staples media was rated at 4x)and the dma was enabled for the drive I upgraded firmware for the burner and it started burning the staples media for the same spindle of blanks at 4x

[chewie8008]

No, it's the same DVD-Rs i've been using, no change. Well, it burns in 4x but usually ends in an error. Where before it never ended in an error.

One thing is, it still burns cd-r's flawlessly...

[mike487]

are you using nero to burn?

[chewie8008]

Yes, nero express. Think it's Nero 6 Ultimate Edition. Is that part of the problem? It's the same program i've been using for a year now...

[mike487]

nero started doing strange things for me on ocassion i stopped burning dvd's with it about a year ago I started using img tools to make and image of the file dvd and img burn to burn out of the movie out of 700+ back ups i have had to coasters due to bad blanks that the verify option on img burn caught.

[chewie8008]

Well, it's burning at 4x right now and hasn't given me an errors, so I guess i'll just go a little slower. If I get any coasters i'll try that prog.

Thanks

[sacajaweeda]

ImgTools Classic & DVDDecrypter is the ultimate combo for burning DVD-Video, IMHO.

[chewie8008]

You use only ImgTools and DVDDecryptor? What do you use to shrink the files? So ImgTool Classic 0.91.7 is better than ImgTool Burn 1.2.1?(those are the 2 newest available options on the boards).

[sacajaweeda]

I use DVDDecrypter to burn the ISO files outputted by programs like DVDShrink. I use ImgTools Classic (0.91.4) to create ISO files out of content I create myself or with other programs that don't output to ISO.