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  • [OT] DVD burning some ponderings

    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sat Jun 25 02:12:48 2022

    I know that the technology is becoming obsolete but this morning a
    burned a disk for a neighbour and was reminded of various things.

    First dvdstyler does not run under MGA8, I have to boot into MGA6.

    I have not noticed previously the overhead with DVD files
    The mp4 movie file was 1.7 gig. After authoring with one stereo sound channel, a title screen and play button, no chapters or subtitling, the
    "iso" file size was 7.4 gig and required a dual layer disc

    I chose the slowest burning speed but the drive vibration was still
    pretty fierce. I wonder how much this compromises the laser tracking
    system and the playability of the disc.
    All disc players had some vibration, but vibration while burning could
    only exacerbate tracking errors.

    Of course it is rapidly becoming old tech now and the quirks are moot
    even though it is still almost magical how it works



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    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.15.46-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
    Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-8-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Sat Jun 25 05:36:32 2022
    On 6/24/22 18:12, faeychild wrote:

    I know that the technology is becoming obsolete but this morning a
    burned a disk for a neighbour and was reminded of various things.

    First dvdstyler does not run under MGA8, I have to boot into MGA6.

    I have not noticed previously the overhead with DVD files
     The mp4 movie file was 1.7 gig. After authoring with one stereo sound channel, a title screen and play button, no chapters or subtitling, the "iso" file size was 7.4 gig and required a dual layer disc


    That is why Video Compression was invented. I have made an .iso
    file of a single older anime 4 episode with some extra material and it
    ran pretty well from the .iso file using the Menu and so forth. But I
    guess I mislaid it which is sensible since it was only a trial. Most
    modern DVDs have some form of copy protection and when I was younger and
    I bought programs to defeat such protection on the floppies of my
    program files but I am past such interest or exertion now/


    I chose the slowest burning speed but the drive vibration was still
    pretty fierce. I wonder how much this compromises the laser tracking
    system and the playability of the disc.
    All disc players had some vibration, but vibration while burning could
    only exacerbate tracking errors.

    Of course it is rapidly becoming old tech now and the quirks are moot
    even though it is still almost magical how it works

    You can replace the drive cheaply enough whether it is in a laptop or in a larger case. I have replaced and swapped out DVD R/W
    drives in all but my latest which is free of rotating encumbrance but
    does have a USB 3 port to which a DVD R/R drive may be attached which
    will be only slightly more expensive than the same item in good used condition. I downloaded the manuals so that I could understand the procedures.

    I am setting up my faster Notebook and having a few minor problems but when I do have the older E6540 I may swap out the
    DVD there for a drive caddy so that I can have backups in one
    box. Of course the 6540 has some age on it so maybe I should not
    pump cash into keeping it going.

    bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS,
    the Perfect Computer Linux Operating System,
    and a minor case of hypergraphia.
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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sat Jun 25 06:43:04 2022
    On 2022-06-25, faeychild <[email protected]> wrote:

    I know that the technology is becoming obsolete but this morning a
    burned a disk for a neighbour and was reminded of various things.

    First dvdstyler does not run under MGA8, I have to boot into MGA6.

    I have not noticed previously the overhead with DVD files
    The mp4 movie file was 1.7 gig. After authoring with one stereo sound channel, a title screen and play button, no chapters or subtitling, the "iso" file size was 7.4 gig and required a dual layer disc

    That is not dvdfiles overhead. that is your program you are using to
    make the dvd file.

    I chose the slowest burning speed but the drive vibration was still
    pretty fierce. I wonder how much this compromises the laser tracking

    Sounds like you burner is going. Or you bought offcenter disks.

    system and the playability of the disc.
    All disc players had some vibration, but vibration while burning could
    only exacerbate tracking errors.

    Of course it is rapidly becoming old tech now and the quirks are moot
    even though it is still almost magical how it works




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