Why Dont Optical Drives Ever Burn At Advertised Speed?

[Rip The Jacker]

do you mean raw video or encoded video? would burning an xvid be considered video or data?

Any kind of video needs to be burned slower than say text documents.

That doesn't sound correct at all. =/

I have an 18x DVD writer, and I use 16x DVD-R's. I burn all my movies at 16x.

[dodgy368]

Any kind of video needs to be burned slower than say text documents.

That doesn't sound correct at all. =/

I have an 18x DVD writer, and I use 16x DVD-R's. I burn all my movies at 16x.

I stand corrected.
I based my statement on the experience of myself and friends that all have to burn video at slower speeds so that we don't end up with a load of coasters.

[panoli]

its better 2 write at 8x for dvds becoz it will last longer. and some drives dont read it if u write at 18 r 20x