--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Patrick Blackard <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Patrick Blackard <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Trouble reading homemade data/movie DVD's on Pismo drive
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 2:03 PM
>
> Burn your DVDs at the slowest allowed speed, for better
> compatibility
> with a wider range of players. Better quality blanks
> help, of course,
> but somehow, slower burning helps, even with the best
> blanks and best
> burners.
I am pretty sure it has to do with the mechanical and electrical tolerances of
the drive
mechanism itself - at higher speeds any "slop" in either the electronics or
mechanicals
will be multiplied, but since that same inaccuracy is recreated when you play
back the
disc in the drive it was written on - it often goes unnoticed. But when you
play it back
in a different device it ends up being out of toleance and then its unreadable.
My general rule of thumb is also to burn DVD's at the slowest speed the burner
allows,
and for CD's I usually do whatever is closest to 1/4 the max speed is (not all
burners support
all the intermediate speeds).
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