How long to take to burn a DVD with 4x DVD burner?

[vioxx]

Hi!

With my Pioneer 106D burner, usual take CopyToDVD v3.0.6.15 40 min to burn ripped DVD file.

With Nero Burning ROM v6 or Roxio v6, not much different to me.

If I use elby CloneDVD v2.0.8.4, it with copy the movies DVD about 50 min in total.

So I am getting little bit lazy now, just use elby CloneDVD most the time.

40 min to burn a DVD, is that 4x DVD burner max speed?

[ebenton]

How long it takes to copy and burn a DVD depends upon how much data you are burning. The actual burning process itself should not take more than about 15 minutes to burn a DVD to max capacity at 4X.
There are too many variables in the process of ripping the DVD and getting the files ready to be burned to a blank DVD, to be able to say definitely how long this should take. However, 40-50 minutes sounds like a reasonable amount of time for the entire process at 4X.

[Jayhawk]

ebenton is right on the money. Ripping can take 15 - 20 minutes depending upon movie length. Likewise another 10 - 15 to re-encode. Buring is about 15 as mentioned. All of this is dependant upon speed of your ripper drive, hard drive speed / location, memory, processor speed, and software(s) used. I've seen some quote 30 minutes, some 2 hours.

[marcelr]

NERO 6 full DVD burning at 4 speed using NEC 1300A firmware 1.0A on Pentium III 850 mhz internal 384 MB after encoded with dvd shrink takes around 30 minutes.
Hope this helps.

[DeleriumMDK]

At 4X the actual burn process should only be 15 minutes. As far as shrinking, that varies. If I do movie only with DVDShrink, it takes maybe 15-20 minutes to re-author (I don't rip the files to my hard drive if I use DVDShrink). If I'm doing a straight copy of a DVD-5, it takes no more than 30 minutes combined, I usually read the original disc at an average of about 6X, peaking at 11 briefly.

[vioxx]

Thanks all