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[HugoCasa]

In an earlier version of Media Center we were given the option the burn CDs or DVDs to multiple destinations via the "Add Simultaneous Destinations" in the copy dialog window.  Does MC10 have this same functionality?

[Brendon]

Hello Hugo,

In EMC 10 you can select multiple recorders in the Roxio applications - Creator Classic, Video Copy and Convert, Roxio Sound Editor, Music Disc Creator - in the burn setup dialog.

The Sonic applications in the suite don't seem to have that functionality.

[Space Commander Travis]

Hello Hugo,

In EMC 10 you can select multiple recorders in the Roxio applications - Creator Classic, Video Copy and Convert, Roxio Sound Editor, Music Disc Creator - in the burn setup dialog.

The Sonic applications in the suite don't seem to have that functionality.

Does the multiple burners feature (in Creator classic) in EMC10 work any better than in recent versions?  My early recollections of using this feature is that although it didn't manage to achieve full speed burning when using 2 or more disc burners, it did at least get most of the way there.  

I'm using EMC9 at the moment, and find that even just using 2 burners (I have 2 IDE drives and a USB2 one), cripples the burning speed from 16x to 2x, defeating the point of the writing to multiple discs at the same time.

I'd also be interested to know if it recovers any more gracefully if a disc spanning project fails.  The last time this happened to me, it wanted to start burning the same project again from the start, and didn't seem to be able to keep track of how far through the project it had reached before the error, which would have allowed it to pick up from where it left off.

[ggrussell]

I don't use disc spanning so someone else can help there.  Burning to multiple drives has always been limited to the LOWEST COMMON SPEED.  You can NOT burn to different drives at different speeds. The data is sent to ALL drives at the same time - meaning they all have to burn at the same speed, too.

This limit could be set by the drives themselves  and/or the blank media in use.  For example if you have two 16X burners and insert blank media rated at 8X, then they will burn at 8X.  If you use one blank rated at 16X and one rated at 8X, then they both burn at 8X.

If you have one 16X drive and one 4X drive, then the max burn speed will be 4X.

Make sure the internal drives are set for DMA!  I've never used an external USB 2 DVD burner, but there may be a limit as to how fast those can burn.

Edited by ggrussell, 15 March 2008 - 07:08 PM.

[Brendon]

Does the multiple burners feature (in Creator classic) in EMC10 work any better than in recent versions?  My early recollections of using this feature is that although it didn't manage to achieve full speed burning when using 2 or more disc burners, it did at least get most of the way there.

I have just finished making two copies of a dataset of nearly 100 DVDs, by copying the originals to ISOs and then burning the ISOs simultaneously to two burners with Creator Classic 10.

The job went well, and the only error I had while burning these nearly 200 DVDs was when I accidentally burned a zero-length ISO [I was getting tired] to disc. It was finished in seconds, and the two discs were useless, as you might imagine.

I was burning at 8x speed even though one burner can do 16x and the other can do 18x. I did this because I was using Optodisc blanks, and they're not the best quality. A slightly lower speed reduces tracking and focus errors that you get with less than top-notch blanks, and it also allows the drives to synch nicely.

During these burns the drives got up to 8x speed quite quickly and held speed nicely, producing good quality burns.

I have no complaints.

Brendon