[G4] 8X burns VS. 16X burns

[James Pacyga]

Wayne,

My point was what is the benchmark?... 2 *  8x  = 16x was pretty 
obvious.  But what does 8x mean from a time perspective.

I don't know about you, if 8x = 8 mins to burn = 64 mins.  I know I 
have seen movies longer than 64 mins on a DVD before - it all depends 
on the encoding scheme.  The 8x, 16x, etc are how fast the disc spins, 
not how many minutes it takes to watch something unless you know how 
many minutes it would take in the first place.  CDs seem to be 
relatively unique in the sense that the discs have how many "audio 
encoded" minutes fit on a disc stamped onto them, so the 48x part can 
be somewhat applied to the burn time.  I haven't seen that on a DVD 
yet.

Anyway, it appears that in some cases my machine is burning already at 
16x.

On possible unique thing is that I pulled my ZIP drive power cord and 
IDE connection long ago, so that the DVR-109 is the ONLY unit on the 
bus (at the terminated end).

Jim

On Jul 16, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:

> it is my understanding that 8x means 8 times (faster than) real speed 
> (running time when viewing).
> So 16x should be essentially twice as fast.
>
> On Jul 16, 2005, at 6:14 PM, James Pacyga wrote:
>
>> Dumb question, but how fast would one expect a 4.7Gb (4.4Gb of data) 
>> DVD-R to burn at 8x or 16x?
>>
>> The first one I did on my sawtooth 500/AGP took about 4-5 mins (it 
>> was 4.2Gb or so).
>>
> Regards,
>
> Wayne Clodfelter
> wayne at troutnc.com
>
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