What speed should I burn at?

[som1dies]

What speed should I burn at? I have burned at 24x and still played excellent.I have a philips 2400 cd rewriter,8MB data buffer.I just wanna know for future vcd burns.

[alcskid]

Well, it's depend on your CD writer feature. If your CD writer already had technology like Just Link/Smart link/Burn proof then you can set the maximum speed to write (look at CD-R/RW media maximum speed).

But some old CD-ROM drive can't read CD-R that writed at speed higher than 8x. So you must considered it too before you burn.

VCD burn future don't change anymore, but DVD burn future still on evolution. I see DivX future still on major evolution right know to make a standard burning that capable to read at ordinary DVD player machine with MPEG4 chip installed.

[SKD_Tech]

Burning a VCD at 24X could make it play choppy I would recomend 8-12X

[som1dies]

Thx alot fellas,Why dont dvd players come with mpeg4 compatibility.

[Batman]

KISS has released a dvd/divx/xvid player. There are other dvd/divx players available as well, you may find more information at dvdrhelp.com (search dvd player reviews).

[alcskid]

Originally posted by som1dies
Why dont dvd players come with mpeg4 compatibility.

Cause DVD standard movie format still using MPEG2 and not MPEG4. That's why most of the DVD player can't playback MPEG4 movies.

[chickeneater]

I would only say burn at max speed unless you have problems (which are really kinda sorta rare-ish)

[thejake420]

Whoa... I've got to jump in here.

The short answer, if you don't want to read any further, is "as slowly as possible". The slower the burn, the deeper the burn. Your current DVD player might be able to handle VCDs burned at 24x, but what happens when it dies and you have to buy a new one?

Ok, here's the longer version...

The way a CD burner works is (basically) it uses the laser to melt the appropriate pits on your blank CD. It's pretty much the same concept as a record player, but with lasers instead of needles.

The slower you burn, the more time the laser has to burn a nice clean/crisp pit on your blank CD. The faster you burn, the less time it has to do so.

It's different from VHS, but the resulting picture concept is similar... the short-time length version allows a frame to be repeated a few times to get a beter picture, whereas the longer-time length uses fewer frames to display the same picture, so it isn't as exact.

The moral of the story: The slower the burn, the deeper the burn.


Jake

[SKD_Tech]

hehe your name is Jake too!

Thanks for the info

[Fluffbutt]

Originally posted by thejake420
Whoa... I've got to jump in here.

The short answer, if you don't want to read any further, is "as slowly as possible". The slower the burn, the deeper the burn. Your current DVD player might be able to handle VCDs burned at 24x, but what happens when it dies and you have to buy a new one?

Ok, here's the longer version...

The way a CD burner works is (basically) it uses the laser to melt the appropriate pits on your blank CD. It's pretty much the same concept as a record player, but with lasers instead of needles.

The slower you burn, the more time the laser has to burn a nice clean/crisp pit on your blank CD. The faster you burn, the less time it has to do so.
Jake

I'm not 100% sure on this but i think you're misled on the physics of cd burning - the laser burns for a specific amount of time, and slower burns give you more 'OFF' time.

So its
on-off-off-off-off-off-on for 12 x
on-off-off-off-off--on for 18 x
on-off-off-off-on for 24x
on-off-on for 40x

and the technology for the off times to be very small AND still make a finite burn pit rather than a line has leaped ahead to give 50x burners..

Any one got more info here... jump in someone.. hey you guys...

Is anyone out there???