General Question - Speeding up Synch Cache

[vincepachiano]

I've noticed that when burning really short movies (1-5 minutes) on a DVD-R, the Synch Cache takes upto 2 or 3 minutes?

Are there any settings that I can change to decrease this time?

(and it seems to only occur on DVD-R.  Once I burn through my stock of DVD-R, I will only buy DVD+R)

 

I'm running imgburn from a batch file:

 

BIN\ImgBurn /MODE WRITE /SRC "ISO\Ballet-3-4.iso" /COPIES 1 /VERIFY NO /EJECT YES /START /CLOSE /WAITFORMEDIA /LOG "vince.log" /LOGAPPEND /PORTABLE

Edited April 9, 2014 by vincepachiano

[LIGHTNING UK!]

No, sorry. When that command is sent at the end of a burn, your drive must be padding out the disc a bit (to make it more readable / compatible) and that's what's taking the time.

[vincepachiano]

No, sorry. When that command is sent at the end of a burn, your drive must be padding out the disc a bit (to make it more readable / compatible) and that's what's taking the time.

Thanks for your quick reply.

Is there a certain threshold for DVD-R?

Example: Would be be overall quicker to write a 7-1/2 minute movie vs. a 5 minute movie + padding?

I suppose I could test this myself, but I might have to burn through 25 DVD's

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It could vary by drive/firmware implementation, but I'd expect it to burn up to at least the 1GB mark if it's bothering to pad at all.

 

The only time it'll be quicker is if you burn beyond that point. Burning the padding will take as long as burning real data and vice versa.