[mythtv-users] speed of burn

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Jun 14 15:26:36 UTC 2007


norman wrote:

> I am using MythArchive and, from what I have seen, there is no obvious
> provision for setting a burn speed. It is my understanding that the
> speed of burn may affect playback quality. So, my interest was to
> examine this proposition to see if it has any validity.

MNy understanding is that if using decent media and a reasonably new
standalone DVD player this should not be an issue.

There have been reports of some very old players having problems playing
"burned" disks, and that at least some of these problems have been
helped by burning at a lower speed.

I wouldn't think "playback quality" would be an issue as long as the
player actually recognized the disk, after all, a zero is a zero and a
one is a one.

There are always errors on optical disk playback though, usually
corrected by the play without the user being aware of it. It might be
possible, in marginal situations, that a slower burn would reduce the
read errors, but this would only matter in a VERY marginal situation.

My best guess is that you are wasting your time fooling with playback
speed unless your circumstances are extremely unique, and in that case
using better media and/or a newer standalone player is probably a better
answer in any case.

However, if you have time to burn (no pun intended)...

BEWW


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