PC hardware: DVD Burner - Slow and Choppy
DVD Burner - Slow and Choppy
by mmaness0 - 9/11/08 1:21 PMA couple months ago my DVD Burner started burning VERY slow and would not play movies or CDs properly. They were very choppy they would keep skipping when they worked fine on other devices. I use DVDShrink to backup DVDs and this started taking hours to backup when in the past it only took about 20 minutes. I replaced the stock burner with this product ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827129018 ). The new burner worked great for the past two months, but is now doing the same thing! Is something wrong with my computer? Can I fix it without replacing it?
Possible causes
by Willy - 9/11/08 1:42 PM In reply to: DVD Burner - Slow and Choppy by mmaness0There maybe too much going on in the bkgrd. or you're multitasking. The burning process is a real time ability and the more system resources you give it, the better it likes it plus the end results. No matter what your system is capable of, it just better to allow it all it needs. The following link is more CD than DVD but the info applioes just the same, where applicable:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq.html
The usual system clean-up, reduce bkgrd. tasks, disable during burn any un-needed pgms. etc., do so. I exclude any true s/w glitch or wear&tear of a burner is used alot or in dirty environment.
tada -----Willy 
Try the usuals.
by R. Proffitt
- 9/11/08 2:11 PM
In reply to: DVD Burner - Slow and Choppy by mmaness0
1. CD/DVD lens cleaner.
2. The DMA flip (do this, do not just look!) from http://winhlp.com/node/10
3. See if you changed software or media make.
Bob
Re: DVD Burner - Slow and Choppy
by Fatboy71 - 9/13/08 12:09 AM In reply to: DVD Burner - Slow and Choppy by mmaness0It does sound like an earlier poster said about having too many tasks/programs going on in the background, it could also be an anti virus doing a scheduled scan in the background causing it. Is your system fairly new?
Modern CPU's are capable of burning DVD's and doing some other task/s but it all depends on your systems capabilities, I have also witnessed your problem more on Laptops than on desktops.
I regularly encode/burn a DVD whilst I surf or write emails or edit a photo for example, sometimes doing all 4 together with no slowdown or affects on the finished DVD. My system is new though (it was only purchased in March 2008) and has a Intel Quad Core Q6600 CPU.
The best advice I could give is to check that your anti virus is not set to do a scheduled scan and also only burn a DVD and do nothing else whilst doing this and see if it improves matters.
Check the controller cable
by GENE8 - 9/13/08 6:02 PM In reply to: DVD Burner - Slow and Choppy by mmaness0You might need to check the controller cable of your DVD burner to see if it is going bad. If the cable is going bad, then your motherboard is going to have a hard time communicating with the DVD drive. The power cable of the drive is probably not the problem since the drive is still able to operate. Your Internet connection is probably not the problem either since you say that your drive runs slow even when you use your DVDShrink program. And since you say that you still have the same problem after installing a new drive, that clearly points to the controller cable as the culpit.
Clarification
by mmaness0 - 9/13/08 8:25 PM In reply to: Check the controller cable by GENE8I do still have the problem after installing the new drive, but the new drive was working very well for two months before it started acting up again.
The problem might be multitasking
by GENE8 - 9/13/08 11:39 PM In reply to: Clarification by mmaness0If the problem is not the controller cable, then it might be that you are running too many programs while your burner is running. You did not mention what OS you are using, what kind of CPU you have, or how much RAM you have in your system. The OS is not a real issue, but if don't have sufficient enough RAM, and your CPU is not a dual-core, then your will have problems using your burner while running other apps. If your CPU and RAM are up to date and sufficient, then try looking to see if there are unneccessary programs running in the background and turn them off. Try not to run any programs, including your Firewall, when you are running your burner, except the program you are recording from.
Just checking.
by R. Proffitt - 9/14/08 7:39 AM
In reply to: Clarification by mmaness0
Did you read the link about the XP DMA issue? It fits your machine's symptoms.
Bob
Problem seems to be solved...
by mmaness0 - 9/14/08 9:03 AM In reply to: Just checking. by R. Proffitt
...reseting the DMA with the link you supplied seemed to work! It is back to burning at a normal pace. I thought I had checked that DMA was being used for the drives, but it must have reset something that I hadn't checked.
THANKS!!!
Remember one thing.
by R. Proffitt - 9/14/08 9:47 AM
In reply to: Problem seems to be solved... by mmaness0
Checking this can often be misleading. I can't trust what XP reports for DMA so I've learned to flip it as you read in the noted article. I've made money from this one. The owner checks but doesn't flip the setting, they bring it in, I flip it and then it works but I have to charge for me doing it. Bob
Hope you can help
by kalendral - 2/7/09 1:46 PM In reply to: Remember one thing. by R. Proffitt
I've been having a problem with my DVD burner on my laptop for the last couple of weeks. Every time I try & burn anything it comes out all slow & choppy. I have tried several things to remedy this but so far no luck - I have tried getting a new DVD RW, cleaning the burner,burning using Long Play settings & at slower speeds (4x), using different software including Nero 6 Nero Express SE/Ulead Video Studio/Windows Movie Maker, DMA flip. My laptop is a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L & the new DVD RW is a HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T40N. I have reached the end of my knowledge of what else I can try so I am hoping that someone on this forum might be able to suggest something. Thanks.
Just a suggestion.
by R. Proffitt - 2/7/09 1:49 PM
In reply to: Hope you can help by kalendral
Tell if you completed the items noted in post number two and on.
Any other ideas?
by kalendral - 2/14/09 2:38 PM In reply to: Just a suggestion. by R. Proffitt
I have tried all of the above - cleaning, DMA flip, etc - as well as getting a new burner installed because I was told it was a problem with the lens.
Time for your very own discussion.
by R. Proffitt - 2/14/09 2:48 PM
In reply to: Any other ideas? by kalendral
It's not one of the above. Make your new post, then reply to your post with a HIJACKTHIS log so I can see if there is anything amiss.
The details from you are far too slim and who knows if this is just the age problem of aging machines.
Bob
My own discussion
by kalendral - 2/21/09 11:40 AM In reply to: Time for your very own discussion. by R. Proffitt
This is probably going to seem like a stupid question but what do you mean by a HIJACKTHIS log? Also you mentioned I haven't given enough information so I was wondering what other information do you think I should include. I've already started a new discussion - the title is 'DVD burner very choppy' under the PC hardware forum - I've put on details of my laptop model, software tried, other things tried like different configurations & I can't think of any other information to put in it.
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