Posted by Darkknight on 12/23/76 11:27

Wrong! you have calculated using CD speed specs.
DVD speed specs are different, a dvd at standard play runs for 120 mins,
so a 16X drive at absolute max speed would be able to rip a DVD in 7.5
mins, but a DVD will only reach 16X at the outer rim of the DVD so this
time will never be achieved.


Lance wrote:
> Well, 4.3GB in 35 minutes is about 2050 kB/sec. According to my copy of
> Roxio, 16x is equivalent to 2400 kB/sec.
>
> Your new drive is doing fine. You just need to realize a DVD holds gobs
> of data.
>
> Lance
> *****
>
> Jeff Korn thought carefully and wrote on 9/21/2005 7:55 AM:
>
>> I bought a new, often recommended DVD burner LG GSA-4163B which
>> officially burns DVDs at 8/16x speed and reads at 16x speed.
>>
>> Now, when I try to copy (under Win2000) a couple of files (<10) from a
>> previously burned DVD (+RW format) through WindowsExplorer onto my
>> harddisc it needs approx 35 minutes !!!
>>
>> Can it be ?
>>
>> I cannot believe it. Is there a wrong driver (Officially the Win2000
>> standard driver should be sufficient) ?
>> Currently the driver cdrom.inf is resonsible for this device. Isn't
>> there a "dvd.inf" or something similar better suited?
>> From where do I get this driver (There was no additonal CD supplied
>> with the hardware)
>>
>> No other ressource consuming programs are running. The harddisc offers
>> enough free space (>20 GB).
>> So what wrong?
>>
>> Do I have to jumper the DVD in a special way? Do I have to setup
>> something in the BIOS?
>> Do I have to toggle a special Windows setting?
>>
>> Jeff
>>

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