Problem with burner, burning 8x disc at 4x, Pioneer dvr-k15

[stebed]

its an 16x burner and an 8x ritek dvd-r but its burning at 4x, its part
of my hp pavillion
8013cl notebook. i was using nero and it would say burning at 8x time
remaining 8 minutes except that when the time ran out the dvd was only
halfway finished and it would take another 8 minutes to complete.. so i
called hp and they told me to use their software 'sonic', so i did, it
gave more detail and showed the burn speed as 2.12x for the first 25%,
4.24x for the second 25%, and then 6x and 8x for the last two
quarters..

i got fed up with the know nothing techs and hung up. in any case,
anyone know what might be causing this? how can i get my burner to burn
a proper 7-8min 8x burn? im using ritek 8x dvd-r's and my lg desktop
burner burns them no problem. thanks!

(if theres a better forum for this question please let me know)

 

[JS]

Burn speed will vary as the DVD is written from the inner part to the
outside edge, this is normal.
After all the data is written to the DVD if you have an option to 'Verify'
turned on, this will add to the time it takes to complete.

Part of the process is to identify the media before starting the actual
writing of data to the DVD media. If the media can not be verified against a
list of know media contained in Nero and (or the DVD firmware) or other
burning software such as Sonic, then most likely the burning software
(Nero/Sonic) has dropped down to a slower and safe speed which is not the
media manufacturer's maximum rated speed.

JS

 

[stebed]

ive used a variety of media, the burner continues to take 16 minutes to
burn a dvd, my lg on the other hand burns in less than 8 minutes on any
media. there's no reason why this pioneer 16x burner shouldn't be able
to do the same.

 

[Malke]

ive used a variety of media, the burner continues to take 16 minutes
to burn a dvd, my lg on the other hand burns in less than 8 minutes on
any media. there's no reason why this pioneer 16x burner shouldn't be
able to do the same.

Check to see if your burner is using PIO for data transfer instead of
some flavor of DMA as it should. See this page by MVP Hans-Georg Michna
for an explanation and fix:

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

Malke