lowering burn speed

[ivanski]

Hello !
I was just wondering if it is possible to lower the burn speed in either Nero or Gear Pro mastering software? I am trying to burn an image of a DVD created in Maestro. I used to take the img to a Macintosh and set the speed to 1x for my master DVDs (those going to replication factory), as well as veryification. This option produces a very reliable burn.
Now I got myself a Plextor PX716A and I am not able to set the option in Nero or GearPro to 1x burning. Both software only offers speed from 4x-8x.
I am using the same media as before i.e. Sony, the same I use on Mac, where it works.
Is there a solution to this, I just think burning 1x or 2x is much more efficient.

regards

[NaN]

Lowering the burning speed to 1x for higher certified media (4x+) just increases the risk of a bad burn due to the optimization of the organic recording layer being optmized for shorter but of higher power burns.

Don't force that. The Plextor 716 is an excellent burner that is able to deliver excellent results even at 8x with 8x certified high quality media like verbatim 8x. If you burn that media 4x the quality is in my experience just the same.

More important than the burn speed is the media itself, choose *only* media from the supported media list (found on plextors homepage), as the verbatim is. Dunno who makes the media for sony, try dvd-identifier to identify the manufacturer and have a look at this list.

Please stop burning 1x, it does more harm than good. And it isn't the big saviour of burning quality at all.

Cheers, NaN

PS: for best burning quality, avoid buffer underruns. The media stays within the specification but extremely sensitive drives might have a problem with it. You can use the plextools (choose the largest buffer possible on your machine) or make an iso with imgtool classic that you burn with dvd-decrypter. But nag Lightening-UK! first for the new version...

[ivanski]

Hello !
thanks for your reply, what do you mean by "avoid buffer underuns" thatI shouldnt use this option?

regards

[NaN]

Sorry for my late reply.

Use burn-proof. It avoids coasters. I just want to recommend that you burn say at 4x (or if you really wish at 2.4x) and that you avoid buffer underuns (if possible) in that way that you don't do any hard disc stressing work on this computer at the same time.

Even if an underrun occurs the disc is perfectly readable in 99% of all drives. If you want a 99%+ readable disc, you may want to avoid these underruns though.

Don't worry about it, cheers, NaN