Re: Fedora Core 2 DVD burning speed ?

From: Paul Lutus (nospam_at_nosite.zzz)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:25:47 -0700

James Roberts wrote:

> I have FC2 and am using K3b to burn CDs and DVDs on a NEC 2500a DVD drive.
> CD burning works fine and is fast. DVD burning works , but the speed is
> always 1x , the drive is an 8X drive and I have tried both 4x and 8x media
> and the speed is always 1x. The DVD burning speeds in K3b have no effect.
> I read somthing about the version of CD record that comes with FC2 being a
> hacked version to support DVD , does it support burning at speeds > 1x. Is
> anybody getting 4x or 8x speeds while burning DVDs?

I get 4x speeds regularly. And k3b in FC2 doesn't use cdrecord to burn DVDs,
it uses growisofs, as you will discover if you will simply click the
"debug" button on the burning dialog.

I suspect the problem is either your DVD r/w drive or the DVDs you are
using. 

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Paul Lutus
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