PB17" Superdrive and DV Video? (revisited)

[Benn]

On Aug 11, 2003, at 4:46 PM, Benn 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?

This was an OLD enquiry of mine (from last august) and there were many 
responses, but I just burned another disk with DV video and I thought 
someone might be interested to know that now the videos plays fine on 
my 17" powerbook!  The only significant changes since August, I 
believe, are the addition of Panther, and I recently added 256MB more 
RAM to my machine.  Something tells me its something apple changed with 
panther.

Again, just passing along information.

Benn