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Speed of burning a DVD with LG GSA 4163B Super multi
I just got one of these drives and I used the software to compose a DVD from clips on other discs.
When it came to burn the data to a DVD-R it took about 3 hours! i.e. it seems to be only burning at 1X speed not the advertised 8X
Does anyone know what I could do to improve the burn speed?
When I clicked burn - it said `writing titles` or something and it took about 5 minutes for each 1% of the progress bar!
I had to leave it overnight to burn - Agggh drove me nuts. Heeeyulp please!
GKF
RE: Speed of burning a DVD with LG GSA 4163B Super multi
what where you burning ? ie, was it thousands of little files of a few big files ?
general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.ukformerly known as Chris Ogden
RE: Speed of burning a DVD with LG GSA 4163B Super multi
Ogster - it was about 15 files - short 10 to 20 minute films.
I only have about 9GB free on my Hard Drive. And when I was creating the DVD project it used about 4GB of that. Could this shortage of spare memory cause the slow burn times?
(I have managed to burn a MP3 CD and it took just 3 minutes to burn 14 albums onto one CD.)
thanks
GKF
RE: Speed of burning a DVD with LG GSA 4163B Super multi
tbh i dunno, i only asked about how many files where on the disc because when i do a disc with a high file count (say 65.000 files or over) nero spends ages & ages just digesting the info before it even starts burning, but that shouldn`t effect it when the file count is so low :/
general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.ukformerly known as Chris Ogden
This item was edited on Tuesday, 23rd August 2005, 21:00
RE: Speed of burning a DVD with LG GSA 4163B Super multi
I had a problem with slow write times and it was down to a failing hard drive. I changed the hard drive and it solved the problem. A bit harsh I know but it was the cuse of the problem.
RE: Speed of burning a DVD with LG GSA 4163B Super multi
Could be a number of things. Could be down to the speed of the discs you bought although the lowest I have seen has been 4X so probably not that.
It used to take me around about 2 hours to copy a DVD from start to finish with an old 1GHz AMA processor based PC with around 10GB spare but now takes 40mins with a 3GHz with 160GB HD space.
I`d suggest investing in a new hard drive or faster processor
RE: Speed of burning a DVD with LG GSA 4163B Super multi
Are you just burning files or encoding from, for example, an avi file to DVD?
Ste
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