DVD-R Pioneer some questions

[rtarjeft]

Is this a good drive to buy in order to copy DVD's and is 1x on a DVD the same as 1x on a CD? because that would take forever to burn a 5 gig dvd at 1x CD-ROM speed?

If this is not the best DVD-R or RW to get can someone please tell me what is and what price I should be looking for.

thanks

[websa]

yeah its a good Drive. And No, 1x DVD burning isn't the same as 1x CD... To burn a full disk it takes 1 hour at 1x and 30mins at 2x.. its very quick.

I have copied dvds, but am having some trouble with audio sync.......... but yes its very doable.

[ktnwin]

Do you mean a 'simply' copy like disc-to-disc CD copy?
No authoring required ?

[VerbatimDVD]

Is a DVD R a true 4.7 GB 1,073,000 bytes a gig or 1,000,000 bytes a gig



Thank you

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[Darkbird]

4,700,000,000 bytes

websa is right about the burn times.

You can only do a "copy" if it's 4.7 gig or less. A lot of movies are now dual layer and have more than 4.7 gig. Those have to be reauthored after either: 1) re-encoding to a lower bitrate, or 2) editing the material into two or more discs.

There will be DVD+RW drives on the market later this year, Oct/Nov. I couldn't wait, so I'm enjoying my Pioneer DVR-A03 now.

[disturbed1]

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Do you mean a 'simply' copy like disc-to-disc CD copy?
No authoring required ?
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This will work if the DVD is the same as your blank. 4.7gb, single layer.

The DVD-R isn't exactly 4.7GB, I think they use the same 1000mb = 1GB as hard drive makers. But you can fit ~2 hours of mpeg2 video @ 5000kbit/s.

Or ~6 hours of VCD quality video.

And DVD-R will play on ALL DVD players that were made after 2000. Some of the older players may not accept the dics. But according to Pioneer, all newer stand alone players will play them.

[VerbatimDVD]

On average how much video will you fit with VBR?

[AntnyMD]

The lack of dual layer recordable DVD is starting to bug me a little, and I don't even own a recordable DVD drive yet.

I ripped Cast Away this morning so I could start to compress to VCD. I copied just the video and the 5.1 main audio track. Without the DTS soundtrack, English 2.0, French 2.0, English, Spanish and French subtitles, the movie still took up just over 6 gigs of space.

[rtarjeft]

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On 2001-08-03 10:13:39, ktnwin wrote:
Do you mean a 'simply' copy like disc-to-disc CD copy?
No authoring required ?

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Yes if possible?