Buffer rate stays at 0%

[Vi3toutsider]

While I was burning a family movies I noticed that the BUFFER was always stuck at 0% and never changes. Also, When the disc was being verify the Image buffer was also at 0%. While the movies was burning there was an error that occurred when I opened up StarCraft 2 the error was:

 

Waiting for buffers to recover

and

Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level

 

This has NEVER happen to me before today was the first time it ever happened I tried 3 different times and all the same problem as well. BUT here is the REALLY weird part the movies works perfectly?!?!?!

 

Could it be my DVD drive??? if so which brand new do you recommend I was thinking of getting a Lite-On.

 

 

The current DVD drive that I am using is an Pioneer DVD-RW DVR 215D SATA

 

Thanks in advance,

[Vi3toutsider]

While I was burning a family movies I noticed that the BUFFER was always stuck at 0% and never changes. Also, When the disc was being verify the Image buffer was also at 0%. While the movies was burning there was an error that occurred when I opened up StarCraft 2 the error was:

 

Waiting for buffers to recover

and

Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level

 

This has NEVER happen to me before today was the first time it ever happened I tried 3 different times and all the same problem as well. BUT here is the REALLY weird part the movies works perfectly?!?!?!

 

Could it be my DVD drive??? if so which brand new do you recommend I was thinking of getting a Lite-On.

 

 

The current DVD drive that I am using is an Pioneer DVD-RW DVR 215D SATA

 

Thanks in advance,

 

 

Also here is the log

 

I 13:47:36 ImgBurn Version 2.5.5.0 started!

I 13:47:36 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1)

I 13:47:36 Total Physical Memory: 6,290,488 KB - Available: 5,086,120 KB

I 13:47:36 Initialising SPTI...

I 13:47:36 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 13:47:36 -> Drive 1 - Info: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-215D 1.22 (D:) (ATA)

I 13:47:36 Found 1 DVD±RW!

I 13:51:06 Operation Started!

I 13:51:06 Source File: C:\Users\Vi3toutsider\Downloads\shift 2\s-shift2.dvd

I 13:51:06 Source File Sectors: 3,827,488 (MODE1/2048)

I 13:51:06 Source File Size: 7,838,695,424 bytes

I 13:51:06 Source File Volume Identifier: DVD_ROM

I 13:51:06 Source File Volume Set Identifier: d0a44000MS UDFBridge

I 13:51:06 Source File Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.45 (12/06/2000 TM)

I 13:51:06 Source File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft CDIMAGE UDF

I 13:51:06 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.50)

I 13:51:06 Destination Device: [2:0:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-215D 1.22 (D:) (ATA)

I 13:51:06 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RITEK-S04-66) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x)

I 13:51:06 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824

I 13:51:06 Write Mode: DVD

I 13:51:06 Write Type: DAO

I 13:51:06 Write Speed: 2x

I 13:51:06 Link Size: Auto

I 13:51:06 Lock Volume: Yes

I 13:51:06 Test Mode: No

I 13:51:06 OPC: No

I 13:51:06 BURN-Proof: Enabled

W 13:51:06 Write Speed Miscompare! - Wanted: 2,770 KB/s (2x), Got: 3,324 KB/s (2.4x)

I 13:51:06 Advanced Settings - Optimal Writing Speed: No

I 13:51:06 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,913,760

I 13:51:33 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Succeeded!

I 13:51:35 Filling Buffer... (40 MB)

I 13:51:35 Writing LeadIn...

I 13:51:37 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3827487)

I 13:51:37 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3827487)

I 13:51:37 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759)

I 14:11:50 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1913760 - 3827487)

I 14:32:15 Synchronising Cache...

I 14:32:16 Closing Track...

I 14:32:17 Finalising Disc...

I 14:33:16 Exporting Graph Data...

I 14:33:16 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Vi3toutsider\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-215D_1.22_THURSDAY-AUGUST-11-2011_1-51_PM_RITEK-S04-66_2x.ibg

I 14:33:16 Export Successfully Completed!

I 14:33:16 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:42:09

I 14:33:16 Average Write Rate: 3,141 KB/s (2.3x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3,881 KB/s (2.8x)

I 14:33:16 Cycling Tray before Verify...

I 14:33:52 Device Ready!

I 14:33:52 Operation Started!

I 14:33:52 Source Device: [2:0:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-215D 1.22 (D:) (ATA)

I 14:33:52 Source Media Type: DVD+R DL (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: RITEK-S04-66) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x)

I 14:33:52 Image File: C:\Users\Vi3toutsider\Downloads\shift 2\s-shift2.dvd

I 14:33:52 Image File Sectors: 3,827,488 (MODE1/2048)

I 14:33:52 Image File Size: 7,838,695,424 bytes

I 14:33:52 Image File Volume Identifier: DVD_ROM

I 14:33:52 Image File Volume Set Identifier: d0a44000MS UDFBridge

I 14:33:52 Image File Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.45 (12/06/2000 TM)

I 14:33:52 Image File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft CDIMAGE UDF

I 14:33:52 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.50)

I 14:33:52 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX

I 14:33:52 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3827487)

I 14:33:52 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3827487)

I 14:33:52 Verifying Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759)

I 14:39:36 Verifying Layer 1... (LBA: 1913760 - 3827487)

I 14:45:13 Exporting Graph Data...

I 14:45:14 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Vi3toutsider\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-215D_1.22_THURSDAY-AUGUST-11-2011_1-51_PM_RITEK-S04-66_2x.ibg

I 14:45:14 Export Successfully Completed!

I 14:45:14 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:11:21

I 14:45:14 Average Verify Rate: 11,257 KB/s (8.1x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 16,238 KB/s (11.7x)

I 14:46:43 Close Request Acknowledged

I 14:46:43 Closing Down...

I 14:46:43 Shutting down SPTI...

I 14:46:43 ImgBurn closed!

 

 

Also is there a way to FORCE the write speed to be at 2X???

 

 

Thanks Alot

[ianymaty]

I 13:51:06 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RITEK-S04-66) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x)

I 13:51:06 Write Speed: 2x

W 13:51:06 Write Speed Miscompare! - Wanted: 2,770 KB/s (2x), Got: 3,324 KB/s (2.4x)

 

You can't force the drive to burn slower. 2.4x is the slowest possible on +R media but you can always try higher if the slower speeds don't produce a decent burn.

The recommendation is to try all available speeds to see which produces the best burn on a specific media.

 

As for "Waiting for buffers to recover and Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level" try not to do heavy tasks while burning.

Sometimes even a scheduled virus scan/windows update runing in background can produce that warning. It's not realy a problem if it is not very frequent.

 

The log you provide looks fine, apart of the "Write Speed Miscompare" the burn and verify was succesfully.