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Question

Why Is My Dvd Burning Speed/Quality Horrible Now?

by Oct 28, 2012 5:36AM PDT

I've used Nero 7 Premium For Years Now To Convert My .avi and .mp4 movies to mpeg2 and dvd then burn to a disc. It has always taken between 1.5-2 hours. This week it suddenly started taking 6 hours to do and the last 20 minutes of the DVDs skips and freezes. What could have happened?

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Burning speed
by Oct 28, 2012 6:12AM PDT

The first thing I would try, uninstall/reinstall Nero, IF you know that your system is functioning normally in other respects. If after reinstallation the situation remains static, I'd be looking at erratic hardware function and would look into replacing the optical drive.

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Possibly
by MStoneySlk Oct 28, 2012 6:15AM PDT

I've heard that my dvd drive could be in "pio" mode instead of "dma" is that a possibility and how would I fix that?

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Let's skip the old laser discussion and
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Oct 28, 2012 7:36AM PDT

If I type XP DMA FIX on google, I find that fast.

I know folk dig in their heels in buying another 20 buck DVDRW drive every other year but that's under a buck a month here.
Bob

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PIO/DMA
by pgc3 Oct 28, 2012 9:27AM PDT

That is a possibility as another poster stated. Depending on OS and IF you haven't changed anything manually, try the toggle method as suggested. IF that doesn't alleviate the situation, it is back to changing out the optical drive, I'm still betting on a bad drive.

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Re: burning speed
by Former Forum moderator Oct 28, 2012 6:18AM PDT

If it's an IDE-drive, I'd toggle the DMA to PIO and back again to DMA. And it won't harm to clean the heads with a head cleaner.

When my new PC had that (Nero took so long because it had to recover from a LOT of runtime errors) curiously enough they replaced the hard disk which solved the issue. Of course, they first tried to replace the burner but the repair report said that didn't help. Well, it was a warranty issue, so I didn't really care.

Kees

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