2 hrs to burn a dvd???
 

Is this right.... f*ck me you could watch the bloody thing in that time...


i have a pioneer 110d now i know it says you need a special canle to burn the higher speeds, but this is takin the P

have i done somthing wrong, or is this the norm


Mart

What media?

My Philips burns a dvd at 8x in about 7 mins.

What burning/coding software do you use m8.

I have used dvd shrink to encode and nero to burn,this takes about 5 to 10 mins

I used nero to do all of it (first time on dvd,s)

there 8x dvds

Mart

If you mean cable, then i can only think you are using a very old IDE cable with the 40pins and not a E-IDE with the 80 pins.

I've got a 110d and it takes around 10mins on 8x

Do you mean converting a Movie file to DVD format and then burning it to disk with Nero? If so then 2 hours is pretty good depending on spec of PC. If just burning a ready made DVD file, then that's not good. 1x DVD discs only take 1 Hour to burn.

it was a 3 gig file converted and burnt, took 2.5hrs

do you need an upgraded motherboard for an E -ide cable (80pin)

i only have the standard 40 pin one

Mart

What spec of PC is it?

Are you running Win XP. And If so have you got your IDE channel set-up for using UDMA mode? (This can be found and set-up in the Device Manager)

The other thing maybe is that usually the DVD Burner is set-up on the MASTER connector (Top Connector) of the IDE cable and seperately connected from a Hard Disk Drive.

Winxp...

i only run /ran my cd burner one one ide channel i have done the same with this drive, the two hard drives run on there own ide channel

i will check the udma settings asap


mart

been into hardware settings under device manager, cant see anything obvious on changing the udma

mart

I'd guess this time includes converting the file from whatever it was to a DVD compliant file.

You don't give your PC specs, but this doesn't sound too slow for a lame-ish PC.

If you have a disc you don't mind wasting (or a re-recordable one) burn 3Gb of random data from your PC as a data disc; that won't have any conversion time so will give you an idea of what the actual buring time is.

It's usually in the properties of either:

IDE Bus Controller

Primary IDE Channel

and/or

Secondary IDE


Unless your primary 'IDE Bus Controller' reads:

IDE DMA Bus Controller.

Which means it's already set-up for both channels.

it seems about right. Mine takes usually between 1 to 1.5 hrs on a 3gb movie that has been encoded by nero.
You will notice the burning is quick quick. Next time you do one, it gives you an estimated time. Nr the end of this time, watch the progress bar. The time will disappear and then the burning will begin. Nothing to worry about.

It is only because you are encoding the movie first into a dvd compliant format.

check your ide chann is set to ultra dma
not pio mode

I'm guessing that with DVD recorders the access method won't make too much difference with times in this case; PIO mode 4 allows 16.7MB per second (maximum) so could transfer 3Gb in about three minutes.

I reckon something else is going on like encoding etc.

I bet nerovision express is being used in which case it is encoding the film before burning. To be honest pio mode of udma is not going to make a massive difference with burning speeds