I've been burning for about a year with my ultra cheapy MicroAdvantage DVD burner.
It seems to work, but I've noticed on a majority of the disks I've burned, somewhere midway in the disc it'll kinda crap out and show compression artifacts, get jerky for a few moments (usually under 30 seconds), and just plain be a nuisance. This will usually affect only around a 5% time duration of the video if that. Ie., I can usually still watch the DVD. It's just annoying though. I've been suggested to burn at a slower rate, and I've switched to running growisofs with -speed=1, and that has helped (I think anyway), but I still get the above problem _sometimes_ (with identical content). Again, it's an intermittant problem, so I can't quite put my finger on what the problem is stemming from. This could be a fluke, but it seems I have better luck when I burn a disc from the terminal fresh after booting into Linux and before I log into any window manager. I need to test this some more. Anyway, my question is: are there any other ways I can adjust my system/burn process to prevent artifacts, etc. from creep onto the DVD? Would 'hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd' maybe help? Or maybe using 'nice'? FYI, here's the command I run to burn a disc: growisofs -speed=1 -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/ Thanks for reading! Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
