Why does new DVD Burner read so slowly?

[Shadowmaster02]

I just purchased a NEC 3520A dvd burner to replace my 4 year old dvd rom drive. I installed it and everything works fine. The one problem I noticed is that when using dvd-shrink with the new drive, the encoding phase takes forever. It says that it is only encoding at ~1500 KB/s. Whereas my 4 year old dvd-rom drive encodes at a rate of ~9000 KB/s.

I am just wondering if DVD burners read slower than dvd-rom drives because of the hardware differences? And if so, what is the reason for this? I encounter the same problem with my NEC 1300A as well. Any suggestions on how to remedy this problem, if there is one, are greatly appreciated.

 

[Childs]

You need to update the firmware with a hack to unlock the ripping speed. Made a big difference on my Pioneer 108...now I rip at 12x as opposed to 4x.

 

[Dennis Travis]

either that or your new drive is set as PIO instead of UDMA. Go to the control panel and expand IDE controlers and check the controler where the drive is hooked up. If it says PIO try setting it to UDMA and close it and open it again to see if it took.

If it's in PIO mode it will be very slow!

 

[Shadowmaster02]

Thanks for the responses. I found a hacked firmware that removed the riplock and that did it.