Burn speed to use?

[the olde]

Hi,

 

Just like clarification on burn speed to use the program on, used to use half the disc rating spped.

 

Is it ok to leave on max and let the program make its own mind up?

 

Cheers

Edited November 30, 2006 by the olde

[Martin H]

Unless you do Nero CD-DVD Speed, KProbe2 or DVDInfoPro quality scans on different media and write speeds to find media that writes well at max speed with your drive, then i would recommend that you use either Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden media and write 16x DVD+/-Rs at 8x or 12x max, data CD-Rs at 32x and audio CD-Rs using e.g. Burrrn at 16x.

Edited December 1, 2006 by Martin H

[volvofl10]

it IS ok to leave IB on MAX write speed

 

ImgBurn polls the drive to see what the drive thinks about the media , the media replies with its write speeds and the drives firmware decides what speed/strategy it can write to that disc at .

 

As Ib uses BurnProof , then speed isnt really an issue

 

although if your unsure how good or bad your PC is at writing , then Martin H's suggestions above are a good guide line

[blutach]

One caveat - getting the most from volvo's advice would depend on you having the latest firmware for your drive.

 

Regards

[Martin H]

The list stored in the drives firmware for allowed speeds for different media codes isn't something that is fully trustworthy. First of all their are often media variations e.g. MCC004 from india etc. Second not all drives have very effective OPC routines, and finally Burn-proof will only kick-in when there are IO bandwith problems, and for the OPC slowdowns, but if that isn't working 100% perfectly, then you can get burns wich because of to high burn speeds have increased PIE/PIF/POE error counts/jitter values.

 

The burn speed recommendations that i outlined previously, is to avoid getting to high error counts/jitter values which can affect playability, and if someone had e.g. looked at the germain c't magazine's CATS test of various 16x burnings which was measured by AudioDev lab Sweden with various drives and media, then they wouldn't say that burning at 16x always is fine, no matter if the firmware reports it to be capable of it or not... Burning 16x DVD+/-Rs at 8x or max 12x to me is certantly good advice, to give to people that aren't doing quality scans themselves...

 

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents.

Edited December 3, 2006 by Martin H

[polopony]

fully agree ,here on the forum after all the scans and tests that have been done we inform people that the quality ratings drop off at 16X and you should not burn over 12x also limiting external burners to 8X . I burn everything at 6x myself and have had no problems for a long time all verify 100% .There are people who get caught up in the numbers has to be newest has to be fastest has to burn perfect although they are multitasking with many windows open and the extra couple of minutes it takes to burn slower and get a better product is advice they dont want or take , then its IMGburns fault

[Martin H]

fully agree ,here on the forum after all the scans and tests that have been done we inform people that the quality ratings drop off at 16X and you should not burn over 12x also limiting external burners to 8X.

Cheers mate

 

CU, Martin.

[cornholio7]

i burn most discs at 8x these days , thats where the scans seem to be best

i only use TYG02 and MCC 02RG20 for dvd-r

i burn verb MKM-001-00 dual layers at 6x they give the best scans there for me

[Martin H]

I personally only use Taiyo Yuden T03 and Verbatim MCC004(not from India because of bad QC issues) 16x DVD+Rs and always writes them at 8x. The TY T02 are generally better than the TY T03 as also is the Verbatim MCC003 compared to the Verbatim MCC004, but unfortunetly my favorite supplier dosen't carry those anymore...