[G4] DVD burning tips

[Wayne Clodfelter]

Any thoughts? Yes. Make sure the media is clean--no dust, no 
fingerprint smudges. Quit all other apps before burning (should not be 
essential, but not a bad starting point). You don't say what the source 
is; whether it is another mounted DVD or from CD or HD. If from HD, is 
the source material contiguous or highly fragmented? In other words, 
does the HD have much free space or is it almost full? If almost full, 
this could seriously affect reading speed which could result in buffer 
underruns.
Presume you are burning with the finder. You might want to try Dragon 
Burn or Toast. Dragon Burn offers demo use before purchase.

On Dec 12, 2004, at 10:55 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

> I am looking for some tips on burning DVD's I have a Pioneer DVR 106D 
> installed in my Gigabit G4.  It is upgraded with a 1 Ghz Sonnet Encore 
> and has 1 GB of RAM.  The burner is supposed to be capable of 4X 
> burning,  but I get a Buffer Underrun error when I try anything over 
> 2X.  I am using Fuji DVD-R that is capable of 8X burns.  I bumped the 
> RAM cahce size to 64 MB.  Any thoughts on getting 4X burns from this 
> set up?
>
> Thanks--
>
> Kevin
>
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Regards,

Wayne Clodfelter
wayne at troutnc.com