[Ti] PB17" Superdrive and DV Video?

[Dave Friesen]

There is something else wrong with the situation.

And listed speeds aren't always real world speeds.

So you are taking video files and burning them to DVD and then playing them
back from the disk?

Playing back data files is different from playing back DVD movies. Different
read priorities.

You may want to check out http://www.dvdrhelp.com (look for the Mac section
for more info).

On 8/11/03 2:46 PM, "Benn" <joverkamp at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 09:01  AM, Benn wrote:
>> I just burned off a Data DVD of DV video archives and was hoping that
>> on powerbook's superdrive, which reads at 8X, would be fast enough to
>> handle the 6.8MB/sec data rate of the video.  However it's still
>> pretty much unplayable, even if I choose to preload the audio and
>> video.
>> So I'm curious, what is the read speed, in MB/sec, of a 1X DVD-ROM;
>> what about 8X?
> 
> After a bit of looking around, I found that for DVD, 1X is 1.38MB/sec.
> that would make 8x 11.04MB/sec.  Any idea why the drive would totally
> choke on a 6.8MB/sec?
> 
> Benn
> 
> 
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