VCD Burning question:Should you go over 4x speed? and why?

[Super Warrior]

I just got a new CD-RW drive.It's of decent quality but the lowest speed It can burn at is 8x.

The problem is after I encode mpeg into Vcd with nero 5.5 and burn It.Whenever played back The video looks odd,The picture is constantly changing again and again from being blocky&pizelized to clear and nice.

Now before with my old burner the highest speed it burned at is 4x and I had no problems.I've heard several times on other sites&stuff that vcd's should not be burned at any faster than 4x.Although I don't know why specifically.

So could the unstable looking video be from burning It too fast at 8x? Just want to know before I go and buy a newer Cd burner that can burn at 4x.

[mike416]

you should try different brand of cd-R media

[MOVIEGEEK]

Check the companies web-site to see if your burner supports vcd and for firmware upgrades.

[Super Warrior]

you should try different brand of cd-R media

No that is'nt the problem.I've been useing Nice quality 700MB memorex CD-r's for years with everything,includeing burning Vcds.And they've always been great.

[Super Warrior]

Check the companies web-site to see if your burner supports vcd and for firmware upgrades.

It plays VCDs.

[Nelson37]

Different drives can have wildly varying reactions to the same media. Try one or two different brands of CD-R, try CD-RW.

Burn speed should not be relevant to read speed EXCEPT that it may tend to magnify any errors in the burning process, particularly when error correction is not used, as in VCD.

While it is possible your drive does not support mode-2 burning, it is highly unlikely.

Or it could be a crap drive.

[Mirror_Image]

Agreed, different drives and stand-alones like different media, it's like Ripley's. My Philips CDRW2010 hated Memorex CDRs, but loves Imation CDRs, burning VCDs on Imation media at 20x and never a coaster or quality degradation, go figure.

[vitualis]

Unless your burner or blanks are screwed up, burning at relatively low speeds (e.g., 8x) should not have an effect on the integrity of the data.

It is much more likely to be a reader issue. For those DVD drives that weren't designed to read CD-R/W discs, sometimes, a different burner/burn speed can have an effect on the subsequent readability.

You should try different brands of media -- CD-RW often works better on such drives.

If your DVD drive was designed to read CD-R/W media, the burn speed shouldn't matter at all (i.e., same as reading the disc on a PC drive).

Regards.

[KingJohn]

The problem is after I encode mpeg into Vcd with nero 5.5

Are you using Nero to "Encode the mpeg" or just using it to make the VCD with a fully compliant mpeg you have already made with TMPGEnc

I sometimes burn at 40X when I have the disks, they are the same quality as ones made at lower speed 16X.

[ryanatalie]

IMHO Memorex makes the some of the worst quality media on the market.

[chiphead]

Sorry to butt in but this is something Iv'e never really have gotten a straight answer on either. I beleive the original question was "does burning at speeds over 4x have any affect on the quality of a VCD/SVCD?" Any advantage of burning at lower speeds? What speeds are DVD players designed to read at generally? Any data to support the advantage of burning at low speeds?

[Mirror_Image]

IMHO Memorex makes the some of the worst quality media on the market.

That mirrors my experience with Memorex as well.

[KingJohn]

Sorry to butt in but this is something Iv'e never really have gotten a straight answer on either. I beleive the original question was "does burning at speeds over 4x have any affect on the quality of a VCD/SVCD?" Any advantage of burning at lower speeds? What speeds are DVD players designed to read at generally? Any data to support the advantage of burning at low speeds?

There can't real be a comparison, there are many makes of writers out there and some do not perform well at higher speeds.

You need to find out what's best for you and your writer.

If all writers were equal, then I would have problems when I burn at 40X, which I don't. Going back a few years, the first IDE Yamaha writers made data disks that 80% of the time could not be read with "Quad speed drives" since then things have got better.

But if you buy a cheap writer, you might expect its not going to perform as well as the more expensive ones. It may perform well when its new, but 100 disks later its starting to give problems, so you reduce the speed to compensate.

Same with Music disks, just becuse we play them at 1X, does not mean we should write them at that speed. If we did, I dont think we would be making them