CJ Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 A friend of mine has a problem burning to DVD. In a nutshell, it takes bloody ages (as in 1.5 hours) to burn a data DVD disk. I know his PC is not the quickest but that seems crazy to me. I have checked the settings on Nero 9 and set them all to maximum burn speed and yet it is still very slow. What else should he / I look at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 A friend of mine is asking how old your burner is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 A friend of mine is asking how old your burner is It is a brand new one Mike. In fact, my very old one burns the same amount of data in about 13 minutes! The strange thing is the thing burnt very quickly for a while and then slowed right down for no apparent reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I haven't got any friends, so I'll ask Can you give use the make of Burner and the media you are using. Also is the jumper on the drive set up correctly? ie your burner should be set to master and the CD drive, if any, should be set to slave. Nero should have a speed test and you can run a test burn also.. That might throw up some clues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 A friend of mine has a problem burning to DVD. In a nutshell, it takes bloody ages (as in 1.5 hours) to burn a data DVD disk. I know his PC is not the quickest but that seems crazy to me. I have checked the settings on Nero 9 and set them all to maximum burn speed and yet it is still very slow. What else should he / I look at? What speed is the burner? What speed are the DVD-R(W?) disks? 22x or 20x seems to be about the average for a new burner now but 4x and 8x speeds are still fairly common. Most of the disks themselves are 16x for single layer, 8x for dual, 4x for DVD+RW and down to 2x for some DVD-RW stuff. 1.5 hours for a 4.7GB data DVD on a "not the quickest" machine doesn't sound too bad but it could certainly be improved... I suspect, like most of your associates, they won't want to spend any cash though. What's the full spec of the PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 I'm not sure on the make of the burner itself but the disk is an unkown type called "mymedia". My mate says that the burner is definitely set to master. The speed test was run and was showing to be running fine and dandy - or so he says! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 The data 'being burnt' would be a factor - if your pulling data from all over the place it could take a bit longer. Also if you HDD hasn't been defragged in a while... that could have some effect. I would be tempted to try some other burning software and see if it's a problem specifically with Nero? I use 'Record Now' which seems quite good.. another test would be to burn a CD using windows (with similar data) and benchmark against Nero - you can't burn a DVD with Windows, so not quite a like-for-like test. hmmm.. maybe a Nero person can think of another setting somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I suspect, like most of your associates, they won't want to spend any cash though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 I just looked under properties in my computer and the DVD burner is an Optiarc AD-7200A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 I suspect, like most of your associates, they won't want to spend any cash though. QUOTE] You know me too well What is strange is that the thing worked well for a while then slowed right down. The data being burned is from an external hard drive and are all AVI film files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 The data being burned is from an external hard drive and are all AVI film files. That won't help matters, is the device USB 2.0? If it is data speeds will be 480 Mbits/s, if it's USB 1.1 then it could be as poor as 12 Mbits/s. A SATA HDD in the machine will transfer data at 1.5 Gbit/s or 3.0 Gbit/s depending on type. So that's one potential bottle-neck. I've already asked for the machine spec, that's the next potential worry as well as the actual health of the external HDD and the write speeds of the burner and disks. I'm bored now, hope you get it sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Copy the data from the external drive to the local one and give it another whirl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 The data being burned is from an external hard drive and are all AVI film files. I suspect that's your problem then, you'll be limited by USB speed (assuming it's USB), and if it's an old PC it might only be USB1.1 edit: too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 Thanks for all the replies fellas - and I'm sorry I bored you Michael I could not reply properly yesterday as I was using his machine and he was looking at what I was typing. This is an old machine with a hard drive of just 20 gig, 300 (or so) mb of RAM and a processor that was something like 750hz. All in all, a crock of shit that needs binning and a new one bought. I told him this ages ago but instead he bought a small externall drive to free up space on his HD. He will now faff about and complain to all and sundry and then finally will buy a new PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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