slowing down burning speeds

[Disc_Van_Dyke]

Hi there.

I hope that folks here are nicer than the ones at videohelp.com. Anyway, I have an InterVideo DVD Copy 2 program that I'm using to burn homemade DVDs. Often, the DVDs that I burn are broken up when shown on my stand alone home DVD player. I was advised to burn at a slower speed, but I cannot find the settings on DVD Copy 2 to do it. 1) Does anyone know how to do that and 2) Is it true that if I burn at a slower rate, the DVDs will copy better? Just to let you all know, I have a slow computer with an external DVD burner to burn and an external DVD reader to read. I don't want to rip to my harddrive. When I right-click on "My Computer," it states that I have only 120 mb of RAM. Can this be a problem too? If I upped it to 512MB of RAM, how much of a difference would this make on my DVD burning endevours? I also use DVD Shrink and it took 2 1/2 hours to copy a 1-hour store-bought DVD. Some of the footage in the beginning is broken up too when I play it on my home DVD player. I know I'm asking a lot of questions here. Thanks for any help, feedback, and your patience.

Disc

[Taelon]

Hi there.

I hope that folks here are nicer than the ones at videohelp.com.

Hi, and Disc, love the name wish I'd thought of it! I think you'll find everyone here is very friendly.

Anyway, I have an InterVideo DVD Copy 2 program that I'm using to burn homemade DVDs. Often, the DVDs that I burn are broken up when shown on my stand alone home DVD player. I was advised to burn at a slower speed, but I cannot find the settings on DVD Copy 2 to do it. 1) Does anyone know how to do that

Good advice, I always burn at 4x. But, I've never used DVDCopy2. I recommend you take a look at DVDDecrypter for ripping and burning, it's better than most commercial software and it's FREE.

and 2) Is it true that if I burn at a slower rate, the DVDs will copy better?

Yes, the faster the disc spins the faster the laser has to pulse, which means less time for media to absorb it and change phases

Just to let you all know, I have a slow computer with an external DVD burner to burn and an external DVD reader to read. I don't want to rip to my harddrive.

I don't recommend copying "on the fly" too many things can go wrong, and it takes a speedy system to keep up.

When I right-click on "My Computer," it states that I have only 120 mb of RAM. Can this be a problem too? If I upped it to 512MB of RAM, how much of a difference would this make on my DVD burning endevours? I also use DVD Shrink and it took 2 1/2 hours to copy a 1-hour store-bought DVD. Some of the footage in the beginning is broken up too when I play it on my home DVD player. I know I'm asking a lot of questions here. Thanks for any help, feedback, and your patience.

Disc

With 512Mb RAM, you're time to Shrink will drop dramatically. Honestly, if you are running XP, it's surprising you can do much of anything with 128Mb RAM, XP requires 256Mb to have any chance of running without constantly swapping to the hard drive. Even if you're running Win98 I'd recommend at least 256Mb RAM. More info here. Start with that link, check the DVDShrink FAQ in my signature, there's tons of great information there.

hope this helps

[Disc_Van_Dyke]

Thanks for the friendly and helpful post. What does copying "on the fly" mean?

Thanks,

D_V_D

[blutach]

On the fly means copying direct from one DVD drive to another, without ripping first. It is bad.

Regards

[LT. Columbo]

sinful it is, but rbtpl says it's excellent! ....whattayagonnado?