How to check burning speed while backing up DVD

[golfnut]

Could someone please tell the newbie how to check burning speed while in the process of burning/backing up a DVD? Also is there a way to adjust burning speed up or down or is it automatically set for you based on the speed of the media blank. My equipment is listed below. Thanks for your help and advice.

Plextor PX 708 writer
Pioneer 105 DVD Rom
Windows XP Home Ed. OS

[BJ_M]

you can use a watch

[Gazorgan]

Well, it's pretty straight forward. For a full DVD Backup:

If it takes 15 minutes or so, your burniung at 4x

30 minutes or so is 2x and 60 minutes is 1x

25-26 minutes is 2.4x for +R's


If you get some otehr time, your drive is probably suffering from a bad case of buffer underuns. a 45 minute burn time for a full DVD implies it's trying to write at 2x, but is failing horribly and is writing slower due ot a data throughput problem.

[golfnut]

Gazorgan thank you for the reply. It is taking me about 40-45 minutes to completely back up a movie using CloneDVD/AnyDVD software on a 4X disc. This includes temporary writing to hard drive and then burning to DVD+R. Does this sound reasonable or should it be faster. If it should be faster could you tell me what and how I should check to improve speed. Thank you again for your help.

[BJ_M]

if you are ripping from the burner -- you can use the pioneer 12x ripping patch , which will greatly increase your speed ...

http://kickme.to/dvd105s (it on there)

[golfnut]

BJ_M, thank you for the suggestion but I want to make sure I understand your reply before I download the patch. Here is my process:

1) Place blank media in Plextor
2) Place my original DVD movie disc to be backed up in the Pioneer
3) Rip and burn with CloneDVD/AnyDVD software

Do you think the patch will improve this procedure?

Thank you for your help.

[Poppa_Meth]

are you doing an on-the-fly copy? that ripping directly from the DVD-ROM and burning to the DVD Writer all at once. if so thats never a good idea. its easy to get buffer underuns that way. rip it completely to the hard drive first. them burn it to a dvd from the hard drive.

[golfnut]

Poppa_meth thank you for the reply, yes I am doing as you say "on the fly copy". As I understand it the "CloneDVD" software I am using temporarily stores the movie files on the hard drive then burns those files to the blank media. The "AnyDVD" software simply removes copy guard and region code info on the fly during the process. Since CloneDVD is putting the files on the hard drive temporarily for burning to blank media why should I use a program such as DVD Shrink and copy files to hard drive then burn. Just asking, I do not know the best method since I am new to this. Thank you for your help.

[Poppa_Meth]

I haven't used Clone DVD so I'm not sure exactly how it works. but if its just caching on-the-fly thats not such a good idea, but if its completely ripping to the HDD first before buring then there should be no problem with it. a full DVD rip can take up to about 15 minutes on a 16x drive with a double layer DVD (they tend to rip slower than a single layer). if its compressing as it rips (read transcoding) then it can take a bit longer especially if it uses options to improve compression quality like the deep analysis function in DVD Shrink. a standard burn on a 4x drive will take about 15 minutes. so anywhere from 30-45 minutes is normal

[BJ_M]

BJ_M, thank you for the suggestion but I want to make sure I understand your reply before I download the patch. Here is my process:

1) Place blank media in Plextor
2) Place my original DVD movie disc to be backed up in the Pioneer
3) Rip and burn with CloneDVD/AnyDVD software

Do you think the patch will improve this procedure?

Thank you for your help.

never mind my suggestion -- you have a 105 dvdrom , not a 105 burner -- sorry about that .....