Almost all the speeds of the DVD disk brands I buy show up
in the Nero CDSpeed program the same as what I see printed
on the disk or the packaging. (I call that good quality control,
proper packaging, and a program that is IDing them correctly.
(There is an occasional DVD disk brand/code that "lies"...)
What I see is a range of min to max stated for THIS drive.
Pioneer does things different. I have three of their drives and
have pretty much discontinued using them all for that reason...
(Right now, my "best" drives have been Lite-on.)
Plus more mixed in.
From: "James Maki"
How does Nero know that I have a hacked firmware and how does that alter
what you said Nero is reading from the disk?
Nero does not "need to know" you have hacked firmware. The better it is
the less Nero would EVER know that!!!
Nero reads the disk using the drive firmware. If the firmware is hacked Nero
is told what the hacker wants Nero to "see"...
Think of it as "something like" installing a "root kit" in the drive so it can
lie
to Nero and the OS...
There is another possibility. "Maybe?" the speed stuff is not really ON the DVD,
but derived from a look-up table from the disk code that is stored in the drive
firmware.
In any event, hacking the firmware is making the drive do something it was not
meant to do (in some cases). In other cases it just "lets" a drive do something
it "can" do, but was not allowed to do. (If could even be a fault of
omission...)
Remember I said that any speeds an "ID" program "might" offer for a CD-R
are based on the program writers look-up table, not something it finds
on the CD-R disk... The ATIP section never had this Info for CD-Rs,
but I thought it was added for CD-RW and then DVD...
(A CD-RW has "always" told me correctly what speed the max was for burning...
In burning CD-Rs, Nero generally shows me what the DRIVE can do,
similar to what you are saying you see for the DVDs. (But I do not...)
Like I said earlier in a different post... You see one thing, I see another.
I use factory firmware and different manufactures. YMMV.
I have no doubt what you are saying is correct. (For you and your drive...)
As for me, this is a boring subject. What I see (and do) works for me...
<grin>,
Rick Glazier
--
----------------------------------------
WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html
Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page
http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
