Slow down CD burn?

[jmazz]

I am using an AOPEN CDRW 4852 burner and NERO V5.5.9
When I burn the min burn speed seems to be 8x.
Using this to burn VCDs I am having trouble reading the VCD on my DVD.
How can I slow down my burn speed as others have told me that with older
equipment they had troubles reading VCDs on DVD players when burning at
higher than 2x.

 

[kony]

I am using an AOPEN CDRW 4852 burner and NERO V5.5.9
When I burn the min burn speed seems to be 8x.
Using this to burn VCDs I am having trouble reading the VCD on my DVD.
How can I slow down my burn speed as others have told me that with older
equipment they had troubles reading VCDs on DVD players when burning at
higher than 2x.

I'd try different media, or perhaps even a higher burn speed (if you
haven't already). DVD drives have a harder time reading CDRs to begin
with, and cheaper CDRs use thinner reflective surface making the
problem even worse. Some people report their drives can better read
rewritable discs, but perhaps not yours if it's really old, but worth
a try anyway. Of course there's also the option to replace the DVD
player.

Run Nero's CDSpeed (Comes with Retail version of Nero, may be
available on the OEM Nero discs too, I don't remember, or can be
downloaded at the following link.)
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/

CDSpeed will query the drive and report all the supported burn speeds.
If it doesn't report below 8X the drive just won't do it, is not
supported by the drive. Any and all of those choices shown by CDSpeed
should also be provided by Nero Burning Rom (what you refer to as Nero
5.5.9) so the odds are that the drive just won't burn under 8X by any
method if neither program indicates it would.


Dave

 

[Mike Walsh]

With newer hardware and media there is no advantage to slowing the burn speed to 2x. You can get better results if the burn speed is below the maximum speed of the hardware and media, but there is not much improvement by going to less than half of the maximum speed. If the hardware and media are both rated for at least 16x you will not see any improvement by burning at less than 8x.

 

[John]

I am using an AOPEN CDRW 4852 burner and NERO V5.5.9
When I burn the min burn speed seems to be 8x.
Using this to burn VCDs I am having trouble reading the VCD on my DVD.
How can I slow down my burn speed as others have told me that with older
equipment they had troubles reading VCDs on DVD players when burning at
higher than 2x.

Yeah as the other poster said --- the really early ones could only
read CDRWs. I have a Panasonic RV30 one of the early generation models
which was rated decently at many sites but it only works with CDRWs
and many manuals of old players actually tell you they wont work with
CDRs. Burning CDRWs is a pain in the ass so I got a Pioneer
progressive scan which is rated highly and it works perfectly.

Actually most of the decent newer players and the cheapo apexes and
lennox and other cheapos probably made by the same company that makes
apexes can play almost anything.

If you have a decent burner - I only Liteons at the moment , Ive used
from 32x 48x and 52x liteons with all sorts of cheapo media and good
and it was so perfect that I got a little careless burning the
cheesiest media at 32x-48x and getting perfect results time after
time. Recently I bought another 200 CDR pack for $2.99 after rebates
which value disk seems to have all the time besides the 50 and 100
packs for free they have - and I ran into big problems at 48-32x.
They seem perfect in the beginning but around the mid point and ending
- I got horrendous artifacts and even stalls. I slowed it down 16x and
they come out OK but some of the new cheapo batches - either they are
really getting CHEAP or Liteon isnt doing as well a job tuning the
burner with el cheapo Valudisks which are sold under a variety of
names - Kypernedia , ValueDisk , etc. The recent not so hot batch I
got had a weird wrinkled white plastic coating on them - which made
them look real cheap. In fact some were defective it seems - you can
look through the batch and see some imperfections in the plastic - one
had a few pits in the disk and another a dark spot and a pit near the
edge.

If you have LOTs of problems after trying a few different media - the
liteons though as I said could burn ANYTHING but lately Ive run into a
few problems which are gone with better media (Fuji ) and even other
cheapo media - then you either have to get another burner or player.

The Apexes /Lennoxx cheapos = often $39-59 on sale , can virtually
play anything even PAL. My Pioneer plays PAL but you need a TV that
can play PAL - with the APex /Lennoxx , it converts it for you to play
on any TV. Be sure to test it out though. The Lennoxx I bought works
perfectly but an early Apex - the quality control was horrendous. I
should have taken it back it was so bad. Others have reported their
units are fine though.