Why is My Dvd Burner So slow when Burning Media ?

Question

Ok I have a Sony Vaio computer, I must when it come to other things it's pretty fast when doing other applications, but when It comes to burning or editing anything with Media or Dvds it freezes or takes a long time. I just bearly Installed my Dvd burner and a 250 memory card, hoping I would get some great results, but no it's pretty slow when burning, so far Ive only burn 2 movies at 2 hrs at a time for a 90 minute movie... here are the specs/features Please help me

2.40GHz Intel pentium 4
512mb pc2100 DDR
Kbyte 256 mb ddr 2700/2100
80gn Ultra ata/100
533mhz fsb/ 32 mb 256
3d graphics accelerator
4x agp slot available
microsoft windows xp home
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Additional Details

by the way my computer has over 700 mb of memory, my burner is Pioneer 16x16 ... Please only serious Reply's thanks I have even booted my Computer at started fresh I even bought a Ram booster , all it does is free up more ram : (

Answer 1

have you tried other media? also try going to the pioneer web site and see if there is a firmware upgrade available.

Answer 2

Unfortunately no matter what you try or what you do it is not going to speed up the Video Burning process that much, remember the computer's cpu is dealing with a lot of information and the burner is only working at the speed of the DVD's you are using. I've tried different things and finally realized that it is the nature of the beast that the burning of Video is going to take time. Like a watched pot never boils, start the process then go do something else and just check back on it occasionally and it won't seem to take so long.

Answer 3

Fellow Burners:
In my humble opinion, the real DVD recordable drive winner has turned out to be the Panasonic LFD 521 U !!!
The drive can take a double sided DVD Ram 9.4 Gig or a DVD R 4.7 Gig or even a 4.7 Gig DVD RW or CDR/RW!! To me, this is the real versitile and winning combination. It has all of the true "money" formats (DVD R) and the hands down true backup storage winner 9.4 Gig DVD RAM(Double sided) + all of the other DVD RAM sizes. It's also an ultra DMA mode 4 interface !!! Panasonic generally has more respect for both it's business and consumer customers. They do not desert the client once they introduce a new technology like Pioneer did to the early adopters of DVD R for Authoring media drives like the $17,000.00 US DVR S -101 and the $ 5,400.00 DVR S201 !! Panasonic continued to both produce their unusual double sided re-writeable DVD RAM 9.4 Gig disks, even though it was clear from the outset of the introduction of DVD RAM technology it was not catching on. I think Panasonic showed superior marketing wisdom by bundling DVDR/RW capability in with their not so popular DVD RAM solution on their new recordable drive, thus giving new life and flexibility to their not so popular format. No one was left out in the cold and in my market their drive is cheaper than the Pioneer A05 !

Answer 4

OK, so you have a 16X burner, are you using 16X blank DVD disks? If you use 4X blank DVDs the burner will burn at a 4X speed, if you are using 8X blank media then the burner will burn at 8X speed! Now you've got it! Whatever the blanks speed rating is, the burner will burn at that speed. Only update the firmware as a last resort, if you update the firmware and it messes up the drive, they will NOT honor the warranty.

Answer 5

Also check the speed on the the DVR cd's. That may have the answer as to why it's slow, if the speed on the DVR cd's is slower than than the DVR-ROM