Posted by kim on 10/23/06 12:24

"magicman" <here@here.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Rolo Tomassi" <abc@defgco.kr> wrote in message
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> > magicman wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Hope I'm in the right group or I'm barking up the wrong tree.
> >>
> >> basically I have a dvd-rw and some mpg's and avi's that I want to put
> >> on a dvd (if this is possible) can somebody kindly tell me how I
> >> would go about doing this in simple terms :-)
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >
> > Lots of new user walk-throughs at http://www.videohelp.com/
> >
> > Rolo
> >
>
> Thanks rolo,
>
> Makes interesting reading, so much information there.
>
> One thing I am not sure of is how do I go about finding out what write
speed
> my dvd player has ?
>
> when you look at buying a dvd-rw disc I get a little confused when it
either
> says max write speed X2 or X4 what does this mean ?

X2 takes half as long to burn a full disc (25-30 mins), 4X takes a quarter
as long (12-15mins). DVD+RW - if you can use it - is generally faster than
DVD-RW. Write-once discs are much faster than rewritables. I use 16X DVD-R
but not every writer can take them.

(kim)

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