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[keester]

I have been taking 5 one hour long videos and recording onto one DVD using a Phillips DVD recorder. Then I create a menu for selecting which volume to view. I do this using a DVD RW disk. Then I insert the DVD RW disk into my G4 PowerBook and using Toast Lite 6.1 burn onto a DVD R disk using a LaCie Litescribe writer. I have been having two problems with this lately. I get errors and the disks won't verify properly, although they play back correctly. Secondly, the disks take hours to burn. I don't understand why a 6 hour disk would take any longer to copy than a 1 hour disk, since there is no encoding going on when you copy one DVD to another. I would appreciate any help. (using 10.4.8)

[tsantee]

You are correct that the disc burning should be reasonably fast. But it is hard to know what is going wrong. It could be that the drive is having trouble writing to the brand of media you are using. Check LaCie's Support site to be certain you've installed the latest firmware for the drive, as firmware updates support more media. You also could try a different brand of media.

There also could be an OS problem that's slowing the flow of data to the drive. This kicks in the buffer underrun protection and slows down disc burning. Try choosing Save as Disc Image from the Toast File menu instead of clicking the burn button. When it is done burn the disc image using the Image File setting in the Toast Copy window. Does the disc burn faster when using a disc image?

My presumption is that Toast reports that it is multiplexing rather than encoding prior to writing to the disc, right?