DVD burning

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

Good morning,

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:10:48AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I got a dvd burned correctly last night but am going to repeat the 
> operation since the final statistics had an 11% average for one of the 
> numbers and about a 5.3x writing speed.  I forgot to set fs=500M which is 
> appropriate for the dvd burning machine since I have a gig of memory on it. 
>  Actually I could probably go for fs=512M.  Giving have a machine's ram 
> over to burning had helped performance on other burns in the past with cd's 
> so this may work here too.  Interestingly, the progress percentage counter 
> appears broken when burning DVD's with wodim but not with cd's.

Try setting you -speed= parameter to 16. If you're using a rewritable 
DVD, you may not be able to achieve high speeds.

Bertil



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