What should be the ideal CD/DVD burning speed

[Colin Law]

On 1 November 2011 14:08, Linux Tyro <ubuntu.bkn1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Pongo A. Pan <pongo_pan at fastmail.us> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Correct, IMHO, slow burning is good, people prefer (I guess) and this avoids
> error(s) (if any).

You should be able to go up to the speed marked on the discs.  Though
I have sometimes found it necessary to go slower.  Sometimes I think
cheap discs are marked optimistically.  Alternatively perhaps my
writer is not too good.

Colin