OVERBURNING - Does it really damage the recorder?

[correioelet2002]

Hi

I got this 82:30 min. mpeg that I want to convert to VCD. When I opened the window to allow overburning on NERO, there's a note saying that overburning could damage the CD-R recorder...

Is this actually TRUE or are they just saying this to avoid any complications that may come up in case someone gets in trouble? Is someone knows anything about it, please help me out. 8)

Thanks!

[The village idiot]

Not really sure, but 82-83 minutes should be fine. The most I have burned is an 830MB SVCD file, I think I had to change the overburn to more than 85 minutes to make it fit.

[MOVIEGEEK]

82:30 is pushing it on a 80min CD-R,81:30 is usually the limit for mode 1(single-session).VCD uses mode 2,if the MPEG-1 is <780MB you're ok.

[bottle-necked]

There is a possibility that it can damage the CD-Writer.
Some CD-Writers can't physically move the carriage up to the end of the pre-groove and so can't overburn up to the quantity of the blank.
Some CD-ROM player can't move their carriage far enough too play an OverSized CD-R.
The quality of media can be lower than in the normal part of the CD-R.

http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_oversize.shtml

[jeg_jason]

I have burned over 200 99min CD-R disks with over 800mb files on my Liteon 52X and it is still going strong.

[papako]

I had this bad experience

Back at 1998 my company has a TEAC 4x CDRW. I played with cdrwin (was the only software that can do over burn) and after that the cdr wasn't working. It was burning about 8% and then stopped.
Thankfully our supplier changed it as it was on warranty.

Now as the CDr are very cheap I think that you can try to over burn and if your cdr damaged big deal.But do not try it with DVDRs

stefanos

[Roundabout]

Doubtful that it would damage the recorder. Most Optical transport assemblies have a physical limit of travel, and if they reach that limit they just stop. Some use what is called a "linear" motor (similar to a monorail on a track) to move the laser assembly back and forth across the disc, this type certainly could not be damaged as it has no gears to strip. If the recorder uses gear drive to move the laser assembly, there might be a very slight possibility of damage, but most have some type of clutch that will prevent gear stripping if it reaches the limit of travel. The lens assembly itself has a limit of travel, in the area of 1 - 2 mm horizontally and vertically, which in itself may be enough to reach the edge of the disc even if the physical drive assembly cannot travel further.
Personally, I would not worry about overburning with any modern CD/RW writer.