DVDA -- Burning Lead-out...Why?

Jay Gladwell wrote on 7/12/2005, 4:21 AM

I looked in the DVDA manual and found nothing.

What is the "lead-out" and why does it take so long to burn? It takes longer to burn the lead-out than it does to burn the video files themselves! Why?

Comments

farss wrote on 7/12/2005, 4:27 AM

Something or other to do with how DVD-Rs work, used to be with the early DVD-Rs they had to be formatted or something like that and that took ages. One of the claims to fame for DVD+R was it didn't need that phase and even though the write speed was the same the total burn time was way faster.
Bob.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/12/2005, 5:04 AM

All CD/DVD media has a lead in/out I belive. I don't know what it does (write the end bits of the data maybe?) but I've found Nero burns is MUCH faster then DVDA.

Maestro wrote on 7/12/2005, 9:56 AM

It also depends on the size of your project. To ensure the greatest compatibility, DVD-Rs must contain at least 1GB of written data. So if you have a five minute project that only takes up 100MB, good burning software will be writing a 900MB lead-out.

Coursedesign wrote on 7/12/2005, 10:08 AM

Shoulda bought Nero 6 Ultra retail edition from Buy.com at $19.99 last week, now they are out and not taking orders (new version coming, although I think they were just blowing out old 6.0 packages, of course upgradable online for free).

Is there any disadvantage to getting the OEM edition?

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/12/2005, 10:32 AM

>Is there any disadvantage to getting the OEM edition?>

Yes but they vary from OEM to OEM. Hold tight because after this beta of the new encoder, the testers will probably receive yet another license for the Nero package and Ill donate my license to you ( I already have 2 that I use so no need for more.)

Coursedesign wrote on 7/12/2005, 10:58 AM

Very cool, thanks!

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/12/2005, 11:02 AM

No problem, I try to do what I can to help out. :)