[Ti] PB17" Superdrive and DV Video?

[Benn]

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