DVD burner burns CDs really slow

RayH · December 29th, 2005, 01:32 PM

I just got a 16x Lite On DVD burner. When I went to copy a CD with it, it would only burn at 8x. Is this typical?

no1_vern · December 29th, 2005, 01:43 PM

The first thing I check is the type of media Im putting in if the burner doesnt burn at the proper speed. Make sure its compatable with your burner and prererably the best media you can afford as GENERALLY the higher cost the better the product.
Which Lite-on burner do you have?

RayH · December 29th, 2005, 01:52 PM

160PS6. For the CD, I went back to my old 52x burner and it burned a lot quicker. I'm thinking of getting a PCI IDE controller for my 52x CD ROM and 52x CD burner. I bought the 52x CD ROM a few years ago because my DVD ROM wouldn't read the CDs fast enough and I was getting slow burns.

BattleToad · December 29th, 2005, 02:38 PM

I actually have that same problem with my liteon 16x when I try and burn with crappy media. pop it in my NU 8x and I can burn at 48X cd all day long. the burner just doesnt like cheap media.

RayH · December 29th, 2005, 02:57 PM

I'll live with it. I don't believe that I'll be burning too many CDs. I have a slew of blank CDs. I just happen to be using my last spindle of generic. The others are somewhat name brand: HP and Memorex. My DVD media are Immation 8x -R and I have a spindle of 16X Ridata +R coming.

BattleToad · December 29th, 2005, 03:01 PM

all I use is Ridata 16X +R's, love them to death, have had very few coasters, like maybe 3-4 out of like 200+ DVD's.

the cd's that I have though were $0.99 for 100 pack on geeks.com on a sale. knew they were going to be very very cheap media, but couldnt pass up $0.99 for 100 pack, and they work fine in my NU drive. otherwise I use Ridata CD-R's as well. Ridata has some excellent media.

RayH · December 29th, 2005, 04:14 PM

In 20+ years of playing around with personal computers, I hadn't any particular issues with using either generic drives or media. But with DVD burning, I believe there is a significant difference in the quality of both the burner and media. Fortunately, with keen shopping, the cost of quality can be lower than the cost of bunk.

The most significant factor may be what the finished product is played back on. I have two DVD players, a Cyberhome 300 and Sungale 2620. My first archived movie, Tony Jaa's "Tom Yum Goong," plays well on the Cyberhome and pixelates on the Sungale; same disk. The Sungale doesn't tend to like any homemades.

The best DVD player I personally know of that works well with any type of DVD: foreign, domestic, rental, and homemade is an Aboss. I bought one for my nephew as a wedding present. He has yet to have a DVD (any region, any type) that won't play.

filipino · December 29th, 2005, 04:30 PM

if you blank DVD only has 8x then you DVD writer will only write at 8x.

all DVD player can play all region you just need to know how to decode

jokostel · December 29th, 2005, 04:30 PM

update the firmware of the drive... ive found that memtek,sony, and verbatum are prolly the better disks of the bunch

RayH · December 30th, 2005, 05:07 AM

The situation was that I was making three copies each of an unprotected DVD and a pair of VCDs. I have no issues with the DVD. I was using 8x media and it copied at 8x.

The issue was with the VCDs. The Lite On is supposed to burn at 48x. 16-20x would be fine. It did copy fairly fast for the first VCD. But subsequent VCDs, it slowed to 8x. I burned the rest of the VCDs with my CD burner. I was using generic media.

Hey, Pinoy, in the US not all DVD players have secret menus. Some have to be flashed to play all regions. But the issue I was referring to about the brands of players wasn't related to code stripping. It was that some players are better than others at handling some types of disks. I was noting that the SAME disk produced different results on my players. Sometimes the problem isn't the disk.