Posted by GraB on 11/15/58 11:33

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:48:55 GMT, sales@___Email_Address_on_Web_site
(SalesMart.com.au) wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:42:41 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:26:34 GMT, sales@___Email_Address_on_Web_site
>>(SalesMart.com.au) wrote:
>>
>>>By placing the drives in USB2 casings and having 16 USB2 ports on my
>>>computer. I have the Pioneer DVR-109 as an internal and a LG 4163 as
>>>the other internal. The rest are on USB2 ports.
>>
>>I bet that's some sight.
>
>A mess of cables.
>
>>
>>>They all get used as before I place each new order of media I always
>>>get samples in to make sure the same level of quality still exists
>>>with that media brand. I do this be testing the media in various
>>>burners and play back in a Panasonic DMR-E30 recorder, Viewmaster
>>>VM928 DVD Player, Sony PS2 console and MS XBox. The Panasonic
>>>recorders are very fussy to what they'll play and so are the consoles
>>>for playing back video.
>>
>>Why not use CD-DVD Speed Quality test
>>http://www.cdspeed2000.com/
>
>Been using that for years. Nero 6.6 has it built into it as well in
>version 4.01
>
>Kprobe is another good program.
>
>The best test for playback is trying it on a player that is very fussy
>and the Sony PS2 console is probably the most fussy out of anything.
>If it plays in a PS2 it will generally play in anything. Many
>authoring businesses have a Sony PS2 to test playback.
>
>I've seen media that Nero and Kprobe pass but fail in the Sony PS2
>or Panasonic recorder.

How does Nero Disc Quality test and KProbe 'pass' a disc? I do not
see a 'pass' when testing a disc. I look at the average and peak
error count: PI (C1) or the all-important PIF (C2) errors. The
standard allows for 280 PI (C2) errors per 8 blocks and 4 PIF (C2) per
block. The burns I get with good media average around 2 or less PI
and 0.03 PIF, which is extremely good. What is also important is the
peak value for PIFs. On some rubbish Laser DVD-R (SKC) discs I had
when I first started to burn DVDs, had peaks of around 100 PIF, which
can cause playback problems, though Nero CD-DVD Speed ScanDisc passed
the disc.

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