hdparm?

[engineuity]

I have a nec 3250A dvd burner...pretty sure it does a 52x read. I am encoding mp3s and oggs through sound juicer, but its only going at a 2.5x rate on average. This seems kind of low. Should it be taking this long?

dma on the drive is enabled already in hdparm, and i set the speed to 52...after a fresh reboot, i can get a speed of 4x during the encoding. What can I do to speed this up?

[Weedman]

most dvd burners cannot read nor write cd's at 52x. i have seen a dedicated 52x cd burner do that b4. my sony dvd burner is quite slow at reading cd's and sometimes it sounds like the disc is jumping in the drive.

slowness. what are your system specs? do you have any unnesessory progs running that might be trying to access the cd drive?

-weed

[engineuity]

I have an athlon xp 2500+ its running at 1.83 GHz. There arent any other programs trying to access the cd, and the only other things I have up is maybe a browser and a terminal. I dont care if itll read/write at 52x, but anything better than 2.5x and 4x is good (11 minutes/cd is way too long to do about 200 cds)

[bigtomrodney]

I get that too - my DVD burner can read at 48x, but encoding is slow. I think this is the ripper's fault though. It dumps a wav file and then reencodes that. It's one thing I think has to be addressed. Windows media player and iTunes both seem to directly transcode without this stop off stage and slow speed. It usually takes my 10-15 minutes to rip an album. Unacceptable compared to the 45 seconds in windows. Probably the only dissapointment I have in linux.

[engineuity]

I was really hoping it was just me...yea that is pretty dissappointing.