Faster DVD burning

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I have a 15" 1Ghz Titanium Powerbook and it's an absolutely brilliant computer, except for one thing - CD/DVD burning is painfully slow.

Is there any way I can speed this up?

Kap
 
Zammy-Sam said:
Yes there is:
http://superdrive.cynikal.net/
It worked really fine for me and burning is a lot faster. However, pay attention to the warnings as well..
Enjoy!
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I didn't literally mean "speed up the DVD drive" - it never even occurred to me that this would be possible! Fantastic. Thank you. :D

When I posted, I was basically trying to ask:

  • Is there any software (Toast?) that makes DVD burning faster?
  • Does having more RAM make a difference?
  • etc

Anyone have the answers to these questions?

Thanks.

Kap
 
No, DVD burning speed depends solely on your DVD burner. Having more RAM or a faster hard drive will not make a difference.

Of course, you can only burn a DVD as fast as you can feed it data to write, so if your hard drive is REALLY slow (which it's not) or your processor is snail-like (also not), then there's the chance that data won't be fed fast enough to the DVD burner to burn at the designated speed (2x, 4x, 8x, whatever), but that hasn't been a factor since early, early CD-R drives.
 
Half of the DVD burning process is creating an image file on your hard disk which is then copied to the DVD. The faster your hard disk, the faster the first half of the process, at least, will go. Unless you can afford to replace your existing disk with a much faster one, the only way to speed up the process is to keep your hard drive in good nick and defrag it with Norton Utilities or similar software.
 
Hmmm... while I agree for the most part, not all DVD burning processes require an image to be created on the hard drive -- for example, a disk-to-disk copy does not copy anything to the hard drive. Even self-created DVD material on a severely fragmented hard drive being written at 16x to a DVD should have no problems keeping up with the data flow.

I think it would be better called the "DVD creation process" rather than the "DVD burning process" -- the DVD burning process is the actual burning of the data onto the DVD-R or DVD-RW, which is solely dependent on the DVD drive itself (notwithstanding special cases, as I described above).

In short, there are ways to speed up things like processing and encoding of DVD material, but no way other than the DVD drive itself to speed up the actual burning process.
 
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