[Chas221]

Hi, This is my first post. Have used EMC 7 in past and never had problems like this. I have a brand new PC including a CDDVDW Drive and a DVD-ROM Drive - both are TSST Corp (Samsung) and work (copy and burn) perfectly well with Windows Media Player. My OS is WindowsXP Home fully and automatically updated.
Everything in my Creator 2009 seems to work but, when I try to copy a disc, the maximum speed I can get is 4X. My Drives are both capable of 48X. I have tried Tools>Options>Advanced>Max but it seems to make no difference - I still get an incredibly slow speed (4X).
I'd be most grateful if anyone can help.
Chas221.

[REDWAGON]

Gotta ask Chas---What type of blank media disc are you using. What make are they and what speed are they ?? You have described your drives and your software settings but nothing said about the bland media you are using ??

Frank...

[Brendon]

Everything in my Creator 2009 seems to work but, when I try to copy a disc, the maximum speed I can get is 4X. My Drives are both capable of 48X. I have tried Tools>Options>Advanced>Max but it seems to make no difference - I still get an incredibly slow speed (4X).
I'd be most grateful if anyone can help.
Chas221.

Chas,

You seem to be reading with your DVD-ROM and writing at the same time with your burner. Have you tried splitting the operation into two parts?
Part 1 - reading the CD into an image on the hard drive
Part 2 - writing the image from the hard drive to a CD

Copying "on-the-fly" - simultaneously reading in one drive and writing on the other drive - limits the entire operation to the highest speed attainable throughout the operation pathway. Splitting it into two operations should show you where the bottleneck is happening. It's very likely you'll burn the image at a much higher rate.

[Chas221]

Gotta ask Chas---What type of blank media disc are you using. What make are they and what speed are they ?? You have described your drives and your software settings but nothing said about the bland media you are using ??

Frank...

Thanks Frank. I've moved on a little. The disc I was using was a limiting factor (CD-RW 4x) but I now find that even with other discs (cheap or quality - 52x) the fastest copy I can get averages about 15x. It is the write speed which is the limiting factor. Creator 2009 seems to read the disc to be copied very quickly. My Drives are both brand new TSST Corp (Samsung) which are capable of reading at 48x and writing at 32x/48x depending upon the disc. Copying to hard drive and then burning from there seems to make no difference.
I have a new triple core processor and 2gig RAM.
Regards, Chas.


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Chas,

You seem to be reading with your DVD-ROM and writing at the same time with your burner. Have you tried splitting the operation into two parts?
Part 1 - reading the CD into an image on the hard drive
Part 2 - writing the image from the hard drive to a CD

Copying "on-the-fly" - simultaneously reading in one drive and writing on the other drive - limits the entire operation to the highest speed attainable throughout the operation pathway. Splitting it into two operations should show you where the bottleneck is happening. It's very likely you'll burn the image at a much higher rate.

Hi Brendon - thanks. See my reply to Frank. I'm pretty sure it is the write speed which is the limiting factor. Copying to hard drive and burning the image from there seems to make no difference - indeed it might even be slower. On burning I get an initial speed of around 6x to 10x for a short time the a speed of between 11x and 13x for most of the operation (about 80%/90%) then I get about 32x for a very short time to finish. What is really annoying me is that I used EMC 7 for a time and I was persuaded by Roxio that I needed an upgrade to Creator 2009 if I wanted support. The copy Disc facility in EMC 7 was more efficient than my Creator 2009.
Thanks for your help.
Chas.

This post has been edited by Brendon: 20 April 2009 - 02:18 PM

[Brendon]

Hi Chas,

You might find it's your nice new TSSTCorp drive which is running the show here, rather than Creator 2009. Can you tell me the Drive ID of your burner(s) so I can go and look it/them up ?

Open Windows Device Manager, and click on the plus (+) alongside DVD/CD-ROM drives. The display will expand to show your drive IDs. Can you please tell me exactly what's shown there?