When I run imgburn on some fast media, the drive's buffer empties faster than the system can re-fill it. So imgburn does this, over and over:
1. Fill buffer
2. Start burn
3. ImgBurn buffer empties
4. Drive buffer empties
5. Burning pauses (underrun protection kicks in?)
6. ImgBurn re-fills buffer
7. Goto Step 2
This seems silly. Would it not be safer and faster if imgburn measured the hard drive speed and slowed-down the burn speed to match? Nero has an option to do a test burn and measure this. I tried the discovery mode, but that seems to be only for measuring the speed of the media, not the overall burn speed. I could manually set my drive to burn at a slower rate, and that would solve the problem, but I figured there would be an automated way that would come-up with the optimal speed.
Burning too fast: Buffer underrun protection
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When I run imgburn on some fast media, the drive's buffer empties faster than the system can re-fill it. So imgburn does this, over and over:
1. Fill buffer
2. Start burn
3. ImgBurn buffer empties
4. Drive buffer empties
5. Burning pauses (underrun protection kicks in?)
6. ImgBurn re-fills buffer
7. Goto Step 2
This seems silly. Would it not be safer and faster if imgburn measured the hard drive speed and slowed-down the burn speed to match? Nero has an option to do a test burn and measure this. I tried the discovery mode, but that seems to be only for measuring the speed of the media, not the overall burn speed. I could manually set my drive to burn at a slower rate, and that would solve the problem, but I figured there would be an automated way that would come-up with the optimal speed.
Or should I just leave it as it is now?