Pioneer 108

[Robert]

Can someone please advise how I can maximse the burning of DVD's using the Pioneer 108. I have burnt a film from my hard drive (saved as an image) to a 4.7gb Datawrite Yellow R- disc in 7 minutes & 9 seconds. However when I try to copy the same film "on the fly" from my DVD ROM the Pioneer keeps having to stop for the buffer to refill (I presume) before continuing to burn and it took over 16 minutes to burn!!, and in direct comparison my older LG 4040B 4 speed burner wrote the same film using an identical disc at 13 minutes & 42 seconds without having to stop once. I am not sure what the digital extraction rate of my DVD ROM is, can anyone advise on how I can improve the on the fly burn speed and if it is the digital extraction rate that is the problem does anyone know of any "fast" DVD ROMS and their cost?

[erdoke]

[SirQUK]

Hi Robert and welcome to the forum. Alas if you record 'on the fly' with DVD the max recording speed you can hope to attain is 4x due to the fact that a dvd rom cannot read fast enough to keep up with the 108s maximum recording speed of 16x. To maximise your recording time try recording straight from your hard drive with media known to over speed well in the 108 ( review posted on our main page http://www.cdr-zone.com/review/30/pioneer-dvr-108-review--features.html ) 16x media is soon to be widley released and again as long as you system is fast enough ( 16x recording is 22,200 kb/s ) then i would recommend using them. Until then a lot of 8x media will record at 12x in the 108 ( again mentioned in review ). I hope this helps.

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