daisuke

I use Sony DVDblanks, 100 at a time. They last on average, 2 months if i take it easy. Both burners are still good after having written a lot since they were new 2 or more years ago. if modifing the firmware is not possible then i will salvage a dvd burner i replaced with a bad one in a dvd recorder i have. it writes only 1x - 4z. swapping out a burner is the last thing i want to do. Daisuke

i have certain older devices that read at slower speeds still. as creating a data disc i like to burn slower speeds. the quality of the video is much greater and prevents skiping/stalling during playback most portable dvd players dont read at mach1 like a cd player does. so slower is better. the thing is i did firmware updates on the drives when disc read errors between 2 diff. windows operating systems occured to see if the updates would correct the issue. changing out the firmware or even tweaking it is possible if done properly. It just that i dont know what i need to do inorder to tweak the settings to get the slower speeds. BUT they are crucial and needed. i have also found the same problem on a hp external dvd writer that has not had any firmware updates. I guess now that we want to write slower we are unable to. Which then creates another question. When you have a DVD re-writable disc that requires the speed to be at 2.4x or 2.0x to write to the disc what would I do?

Hello, Thanks for having this forum so we can ask questions that wont be answerd otherwise. First off. i used to be able to write a slower speds like 1x or 2x even 2.4x This was with Xp64. right now im using windows 7 and everything works fine but the one thing i really need. Thats to write at 1x or 2x. the discs i have will write from 1x to 18x. I have 2 dvd +/- writers [internal] one is a HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H62N CL00 and the other is TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S183L SB03. Currently the slowest speed i can get either to go is 4x. What can i do to get IMGBurn to write slower then 4x? Thanks for the help Daisuke Below i pasted some info from the device window as a reference. Along with the curent log output file info. since i just upgraded to 2.5.5 there is no log to be posted other then this . Log INfo I 20:41:08 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started! I 20:41:08 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (6.1, Build 7600) I 20:41:08 Total Physical Memory: 2,882,088 KB - Available: 990,940 KB I 20:41:08 Initialising SPTI... I 20:41:08 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 20:41:11 Found 2 DVD±RW/RAMs! I 21:07:19 Close Request Acknowledged I 21:07:19 Closing Down... I 21:07:19 Shutting down SPTI... I 21:07:19 ImgBurn closed! Performance (Write Speeds): Descriptor 1... -> B0: 0x00, B1: 0x00, B2: 0x00, B3: 0x00 -> EL: 2295103 (0x0023053F) -> RS: 16,620 KB/s (12x) - WS: 5,540 KB/s (4x) Descriptor 2... -> B0: 0x00, B1: 0x00, B2: 0x00, B3: 0x00 -> EL: 2295103 (0x0023053F) -> RS: 16,620 KB/s (12x) - WS: 11,080 KB/s (8x) Descriptor 3... -> B0: 0x00, B1: 0x00, B2: 0x00, B3: 0x00 -> EL: 2295103 (0x0023053F) -> RS: 16,620 KB/s (12x) - WS: 16,620 KB/s (12x) Descriptor 4... -> B0: 0x00, B1: 0x00, B2: 0x00, B3: 0x00 -> EL: 2295103 (0x0023053F) -> RS: 16,620 KB/s (12x) - WS: 22,160 KB/s (16x)