[G4] DVD burning tips

[Wayne Clodfelter]

If you are burning a full DVD, that's 4.4GB with only 3.2GB free on the 
HD. That could mean significant fragmentation exists in the source. You 
could check this with TTP4, and could also defragment the HD (including 
the source data for the burn).
I'd try the Dragon Burn demo to see what result you get. In my 
experience, Toast 5.2 was much more prone to buffer underrun than 6.0.7 
is.

On Dec 12, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

>
> On Dec 12, 2004, at 11:44 PM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I forgot to mention that I am using Toast Titanium 5.2.  I am burning 
> from the HD.  It is a 120 GB Western Digital IDE drive with three 
> partitions.  Panther is installed on the second partition which is 80 
> GB.  That is where Toast and the source are located.  Right now, there 
> is about 3.2 GB available on that partition.
>
> Thanks--
>
> Kevin
>
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Regards,

Wayne Clodfelter
wayne at troutnc.com