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Hover
1st November 2004, 15:47
Hello,

Just tried DVD5 -> DVD5 backing up with my new NEC 3500 drive. I used SmartBuy 4x DVD+R, wrote one copy of the movie "Pink Floyd: The Wall" using Alcohol 120% and another copy using DVDDecrypter in ISO mode. Both copies came out usable, but with one significant flaw:

- When I insert the original movie DVD into the drive, it starts to spin very slowly and quietly.
- When I insert the copy, the drive spins up to its max. After 30 seconds of no access it stops, but the fast spinning resumes if I launch PowerDVD playback. Only one time somehow I got it turning slowly during playback, but was unable to reproduce it.

Is there a way to burn "quiet" DVDs?

LIGHTNING UK!
1st November 2004, 17:22
It's probably just due to your burner being locked to a certain speed on dvdrom video discs but not on burnt ones.

Use a drive speed controlling program to slow the drive down.

Hover
2nd November 2004, 09:54
Yes, but could it have something to do with bitsetting? Maybe the drive would start slow with the disk type set to DVD-ROM instead of DVD+R?

However, I only found one option to set the type - WinBType.exe program which only affects DL disks and not single layer DVD+R. ;-(

Guys, isn't it an important issue which possibly affects all the burnt DVDs, not only copied ones?