Can not select burning speed...

[ANCO]

Hello,

My father owns a Casablanca Avio DVD, having the following spec:
DVD Arabesk 3.2d
Casablanca Version 4.1d
The DVD writter is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-116D installed with firmware 1.07

He would like to be able to select the burning speed when burning a DVD, but only the higher speed can be selected. Does anybody know how can this be solved ?

Many thanks in advance...
Anthony.

[TimKennelly]

The Avio does not have enough processing power to burn at the higher speeds, are you sure you don't mean it won't let him burn faster?

[Martyn]

Avio and Kron (not Kron plus) have the DVD burner connected as a slave device to the hard drive. This apparently limits the amount and speed of data passed back and forth and so allows only the lowest burning speed. Kron plus, Prestige etc. have a separate IDE connection for hard drive and DVD burner which allows much faster transfer of data and faster burning speeds.

Martyn
Dalco uk

[ANCO]

Hi guys,
Thanks for the answers...but I correctly write that the higher speed only can be selected. Even with DVD that are "tested and approved" for these speeds there can be problems. That´s why he would like to be able to select lower speed (it it can burn at higher speed, it should be able to burn at lower speed, shouldn´t it ?)

Regards,
Anthony.

[TimKennelly]

Not sure what to tell you Anthony, it's physically impossible that your father's Avio is burning at the higher speeds.

Either a software corruption is mislabeling this or he is misreading it because it is not burning at the higher speeds, it cannot process the data fast enough to do so.

[Martyn]

This does seem strange as the speed selector is greyed out in Arabesk on Avio and Kron. I would expect the disk to write at 1 times which equals double speed i.e. a one hour film should take about 30 mins or a little more. (this is burning time only, not authoring or authoring + burning).

Martyn
Dalco uk