What should be the ideal CD/DVD burning speed

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 17:38 +0530, Linux Tyro wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:25 PM, CJ Tres <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> 
> Someone with more  knowledge will probably respond but I prefer to use 8x
> > due to possible errors (wasted media) with faster speeds. I'm never in all
> > that much of a hurry to get a disc burned.
> > Some media brands will have problems burning at higher speeds also, so
> > your choice of brand will make a difference.
> >
> 
> Okay but 'Brasero Disc Burner' by default burns at Maximum speed untill one
> chages it manually going into properties!!
> 

Well, that's the behavior that most people with newer hardware and
decent media want.  On my system Brasero starts at about 18X and
gradually increases to somewhere around 40X (for a full CD) and at
around 4X, increasing to close to 16X for conventional DVDs.  It seems
to use positive feedback loops to check operation and gradually increase
writing speeds.  This is fairly a conservative strategy and is exactly
what I want.  YMMV.  It is easy to change the defaults.  3KB gives you
more options at the cost of loading large KDE libraries first.  There
are about a half-dozen others that may have defaults more to your
liking.

AFAIK all burning programs in Linux are just front ends for Wodim
anyway.  If you really want to control things and get the maximim info
on what happened (or why it failed), use that.  Say man wodim in a
terminal to see.

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