Burn disc image to DVD 2x or 4x speed?

Hi

No but my roule/way is to use an as slow speed possibly eg x1
in iDVD08 or Roxio Toast™ or Apple Disk Util tool.

Less write errors = better read-ability on various players.

x16 often results in bad disks.

Youts Bengt W

I use to have the same rule: slower = better because of less errors. All disc burns have errors, all disc readers have error correction built in; you just don't want to push the envelope!

Now however I had modified my slower = better to slower = better. In other word, do not burn at the fastest rate allowed, but don't burn at the slowest. Today's media is made to burn at higher speeds. Burning at too slow a speed can create the same errors we were trying to avoid. What is that middle of the road speed? Depends on the media/burning. If my options are 4x, 8x, 16x- I would choose 8x. If my options are 2x, 4x, 8x, I would choose 4x. If my options are 1x or 2x, I would choose 1x (not the fastest happens to be the slowest).

Mike

I would use 4x (probably) or 8x- depending on how my experience with the 4x burn turned out. It has been my experience that media rated at a higher speed (16x) but burned at the slowest speed (2x) will produce more errors, not less since the "newer" media is optimized for a "faster" burn.

Mike

Slowest is best, as results in less errors.

Interesting

Anyone seen a program that can compare a DiskImage and the burned DVD
eg counting the no: of errors ?

Very interested to get a tool that does this.

Yours Bengt W