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lblaze
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13. January 2006 @ 20:59 |
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I am a newbie here. I just got started baking up my dvds. A buddy of mine got me into it and showed me how. He doesnt have the internet but said i should disconnect my internet connection before i back up a movie. Does anyone else do this?
Larry Blaze
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13. January 2006 @ 21:11 |
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You don't do ANYthing while you are burning.
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lblaze
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13. January 2006 @ 21:14 |
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i know not to do anything but should i disable my internet connection as well
Larry Blaze
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13. January 2006 @ 21:24 |
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The proggy should be the only thing running at the time.
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aabbccdd
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13. January 2006 @ 22:05 |
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YES disconnect your internet
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colw
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13. January 2006 @ 22:34 |
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I do not believe that disconnecting from the Internet is necessary - I never have.
However encoding/burning is resource instensive and it is advisable to have as few other programs running as possible.
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14. January 2006 @ 01:31 |
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I disconnect from the internet as sometimes programs will try and update while you're encoding or burning.. but most of the time I leave my AV and spyware on... but it depends on how much ram you have etc. I always tell people to turn off as much as they can before burning/encoding etc as I don't know what their computers are like.. whereas you get to know what your own computer can handle.
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aabbccdd
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14. January 2006 @ 08:17 |
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yeah iam running 2 gigs of ram so its never a problem but if your running 512mb then you need to turn off everything you can. i recomemend everyone run at least 1 gig of ram if you plan on backing up lots of dvds it def. helps things out
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14. January 2006 @ 08:19 |
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I think it's more important to have nothing running when you are BURNING. If you look at teh buffer level of the burn, you'll see it go down to about 1% even if you are doing something as simple as opening solitaire.
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Moglex
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14. January 2006 @ 08:47 |
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Has anyone actually tried burning with other things running, recently?
I know that in the past even sneezing near your machine could cause a burn to fail, but I have a 2600Mhz Athlon machine (i.e. not particularly fast), and just get on with whatever I'm doing as DVD's burn. Some of the things I do - such as compilations of large programs are extremely processor intensive. I've probably burned around 1000 DVD's over the last couple of years (no, I'm not running a pirate operation :-)), all with verify, and only made about a dozen coasters in that time. Even these failed right at the end of the disk, so I put it down to media problems.
Oh, and the internet is always connected, and often active.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 14. January 2006 @ 08:53
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14. January 2006 @ 08:51 |
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It's not a sin if you multi-task during the burn. Most comps can take it but if you have a slow comp, like 256MB then the multi-tasking will disrupt teh stream of data that's being sent. So multitasking duriing the encode no so bad, but definnitly not during the burn stage.
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Moglex
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14. January 2006 @ 08:56 |
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I would add, in relation to what I wrote above, that I have 1GB of memory, and am running XP. The imprecation against doing anything whilst burning most definitely applies to 'doze 95, 98 and ME.
It's only versions of NT and XP, with their pre emptive scheduling, that can process with impunity whilst burns are taking place.
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14. January 2006 @ 08:59 |
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I have XP, and multi-tasking still affects the buffer. Which isn't the end of the world of course. it's just that if your buffer is never stable throughout the burn then it's not going to be a very good burn.
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Moglex
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14. January 2006 @ 09:09 |
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'Affecting' the buffer is not a problem. It's only if the device buffer was to empty that you would have a problem, and in that case, I think it would abort the burn. The software buffer could actually empty and the burn would be OK provided the device buffer retained some data.
It isn't a situation where the quality can be impaired because the buffer runs low. Either the device has the bits to write to the device or it doesn't. Even if it was down to it's last bit before the buffer was replenished, it wouldn't matter.
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