I am using Shrink to rip movies, and Decrypter to burn the image. My burner is a NEC DVD+- RW ND 6500-A. That came standard in my Inspiron 6000. Using PM 1.6, 1ghz of ram. The advertised burn speed for this burner is 8x, but it only burns at average 4.4, max 6.2. The media I am using is Verbatim +R 8x discs, with media code MCC-003. To my understanding, this is a good media type. I have even tried some TDK 8x with same problem. When i start to burn, it slowly increases in speed up to 2.5, where it stays for a few minutes, then it will inrease a bit more to around 4x. It keeps doing this to a max of 6.2. I havnt had any coasters either. I called Dell to inquire, and they where no hope. They just had me edit a regisrty key and delete files called 'upper limits' and 'lower limits'. I searched here first, and saw that i should try to update firmware. So I let Decrypter search for updates and it took me to www.rpc1.org. There I entered my model number and found firmware version 203d so I updated (from 202c) and that did not improve anything. any thoughts? Sorry for the long post, but trying to be thourough. Also, here is the Decrypter log from the last burn, might help. Thanks I 14:52:23 DVD Decrypter Version 3.5.4.0 started! I 14:52:23 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 14:52:24 Initialising SPTI... I 14:52:24 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 14:52:24 Found 1 DVD±RW! I 14:52:27 Operation Started! I 14:52:27 Source File: C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\KEVIN\MY DOCUMENTS\MOVIES\ATTACK_OF_THE_CLONES_D1.ISO I 14:52:27 Source File Sectors: 2,232,601 (MODE1/2048) I 14:52:27 Source File Size: 4,572,366,848 bytes I 14:52:27 Source File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink I 14:52:27 Destination Device: [1:0:0] _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A 203D (D (ATA) I 14:52:28 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MCC-003-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x) I 14:52:28 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104 I 14:52:28 Write Mode: DVD I 14:52:28 Write Type: SAO I 14:52:28 Write Speed: MAX I 14:52:28 Link Size: Auto I 14:52:28 Test Mode: No I 14:52:28 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 14:52:28 Filling Buffer... I 14:52:31 Writing LeadIn... I 14:52:44 Writing Image... I 15:04:55 Synchronising Cache... I 15:04:56 Closing Track... I 15:05:11 Finalising Disc... I 15:05:29 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:13:02 I 15:05:29 Average Write Rate: 6,108 KB/s (4.4x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,643 KB/s (6.2x)
Apparently your burner and media only work together at a max speed of 6x. Even though your burner says it can burn at 8x and so does your media, firmware may have stopped this particular media from burning faster than 6x. I have the same types of issues with my burner, but it's really not that big a deal. Honestly, DVD burns are best done at 4x or less anyway.
