BitBurners MediaBase - DVD recordable media quality database

[ljpp]

We at the BitBurners have been working on a smarter way to submit and collect DVD-R media error rate quality scans. Many websites have good discussions on their forums, but this way the information is fragmented to several sites and test results are not organized in easy to find manner.

As a solution, and I must say finally as this was planned about 2 years ago, we have developed the BitBurners MediaBase. It is a DVD media quality database that will collect Nero CD-DVD Speed input, along with your subjective ratings and textual reviews/comments.

We have just now entered a public alpha testing phase, to see how the platform works, to collect some data and to iron out the last bugs and polish some features.

However, in order to pull this off we need plenty of support from the DVD recording scene. I hope admins/mods don't mind me posting it here.

Check out the service and instructions:
http://forum.bitburners.com/index.php?topic=698.0

[Sharktooth]

hi ljpp. if you're interested in collecting data on discs quality there is a dedicated thread on the italian doom9 forum. it has A LOT of info and discs tests... it's in italian though... however the pics talk by themself ;)

http://forum.doom9.it/viewtopic.php?t=11082

[ljpp]

Yes, there seems to be quite a bit of scans and talking about media. I cannot however submit them to the database, as it needs to by done by the one performing the scans as the Nero CD-DVD Speed quality scan report is needed.

We have been very busy scanning and adding discs to the MediaBase, but the problem is that we are soon running out of discs. Therefore we really really need some test users to try the database and submit some scans.

We actually made some improvements to it - now users can include data transfer rate scan (TRT) to their reports as well. So everyone interested in DVD recording and quality scanning, please contribute - a comprehensive database will benefit us all.

http://media.bitburners.com

[ljpp]

Great news and a major update!

Erik Deppe supported our project by adding DVD recorder information fields to the Quality scan summary report of Nero CD-DVD Speed. The MediaBase is now updated to Beta-1, and the recorder and firmware information is now parsed and collected to the database. This means that the CD-DVD Speed version 4.7.5.0 should be used from now on.

Here you can see a demonstration of Pioneer DVR-112 toasting an Imation (MCC) disc at 18x speed: http://media.bitburners.com/en/mediabase/imation__dvd_r_16x/mcc_004/

Not all views are yet tweaked to utilize this new data, but we continue updating the MediaBase today and following days.