Requirement to burn dvd?

What is the requirment for a pc to burn dvd? I have a old computer AMD 950 Mhz, 128 mb sdram, 64 mb video... would it freeze while burning dvd

 

Although the processor is the minimum requirement for Burning DVD's You have to low Ram, you need to make sure to take some processes so that you wont have buffer under run errors because of lack of ram, although I dont think the computer would "Freeze" While burning, another question do you mean AMD 1000+ Mghz or the true processor speed 950 Mhz, I dont think video memory would do such a different when burning DVDS.

 

Hi there,

Burning DVDs should work in that box.
I would burn at 2x max to make sure the PC has time to feed the burner properly.

Now as to convert, RIP, and shrink DVD, I hope your patient cause it may take a while...

 

What if i burn at 8x or 4x what would happen? My true processor speed is 950 MHz, may be i can upgrade to 256 mb ram how does that sound

 

more ram will definetly help you out with burning.....but you wil still have to close all uneeded programs while shrinking and decrypting, just in case the system does freeze in the process. Think that you may be able to do it

 

I've burned at 8x with 700mhz, 128mb RAM. You can do it, but it increases your chance of errors.

When you see system requirements on a package of a dvd burner, ignore them as they are most likely for the software that comes with it.

What I do is, always make an image to the hard drive and <b>Never</b> burn on the Fly.

Also, if you do shrink a movie, it will take about 3-4 hours including Deep Analysis.

If you want to encode a DVD to VCD that is where you are in trouble. That can take days, literally.

Check your system startup or use a program like wintask or spybot search and destroy (in advanced mode) to stop unwanted programs from booting. Usually you will have tons of spyware that has renamed itself as a valid program (I had 4 different rundll32.exe three of which were spyware).

Now I only boot with the real rundll32.exe, taskmon, vptray.exe (norton), statemgr.exe, Defwatch.exe (norton), and rtvscn95.exe (norton). There are also some programs that run in the background but altogether I am using about 60mb RAM.

Another thing that helps is burning at 4x (~13 minutes) or lower. You can do 8x, but even if you have a Dual Opteron 275 system with 8 gigs of RAM I wouldn't suggest that for movies. Not a big deal waiting 6 extra minutes. I go 8x for Data and check it after the burn.

Also, make sure you use a good buner and Top Notch Media. Go for Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, & Ritek. I think TDK and Sony is also good.

My rule of thumb with software is, if it has eye candy, stay away. Eye candy software uses lots of resources and may result in a bad burn.

 

My rule of thumb is, if you are going to get serious about burning DVD's, get with the program, and get the equipment that can handle the programs needed to burn DVD's.

JaguarGod, your recommendations about ignoring what's on the DVD burner box, and your rule of thumb on software are poor, at best.

 

The drive itself does not need anything special. I have friends that have been burning for years on a 433mHz Celeron.

Think about the Plextor Requirements. 1.8gHz CPU, 256Mb Ram. Those requirements are for Roxio Easy CD/DVD maker. The 1.8gHz is for video capture.

Pioneer DVR-A09XL requires 800mHz and 256mb Ram. Those are the requirements for MovieFactory Deluxe. Both of these burners work with no problem for me.

When you burn a DVD you should not be multitasking, so RAM and CPU speed is not that Crucial.

CPU speed will only help with encoding/shrinking, by drastically reducing time. All the DVDs I have burned so far average about 15 PI errors and 0 PO errors and that includes some that I accidentally burned at 8 speed.

My rule of thumb with software holds true. Look at Roxio. It is soo colorful. Compare it to DVD Decrypter. Not too pleasing to the eye, but very effective.

Also, the best cd burning app I have ever tried was clone cd. Again very plain, but effective, much better than adaptec.

Then you have Norton Anti Virus vs. Symantec Corporate. NAV uses about 90mb of Ram compared to about 20 or so for SAV. SAV looks like and old win95 application, but much more effective than NAV.

You can even look at cinema 4d. v8 does about the same v9, but v9 requires 1gb RAM compared to 128Mb for v8. The biggest difference I see in the two programs is the GUI which is much prettier and more user friendly in v9.

If you think about it, the more colorful or shaped something is, the more it is going to ask from your computer. Whether it be from the Graphics card, which may then have to take some resources from your RAM or Ram and CPU directly.

I think higher speed burning would require a faster CPU and more RAM (I would go for more RAM before CPU), but then the laser may lose accuracy and the is not acceptible for movie backups. As long as the hardware gets the information in time it will be ok.

For some reason people tend to buy things that are more eye candy and assume eye candy = quality. This is not always true. I am sure a lot of eye candy stuff is good, but regardless it will use up more of your resources thus reducing its benefit.

I would rather go for a program that does its job and looks simple, but may be very complicated to use than a graphical program that does it all, but not necassarily as well.

Oh and I do have the equipment, but I only use that machine strictly for animation. I have a dual Opt 248 (not 275 those are way too much) with 8gigs RAM and nvidia FX-3400. I do have a dvd burner on that one, but I do not want to install any extra programs on the HD. Animation actually uses up all the resources especially CPU speed when rendering. The Dual Opteron is actually not enough for a full length film. I figure in time I can get one more PC and network render.