Brasero Buring Very Slow

Hope this is the correct area. Almost everything comes under "multimedia".

Basic facts:

2.8GHz Pentium4
2GB RAM
16x DVD-RW drive

2x -RW disks

Windows XP: Nero 8 = 2x burning speed
OpenSuse 10.3: Brasero 0.7.1 = 0.4x burning speed

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Something is wrong. Any suggestions where to start looking?

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Windows XP: Nero 8 = 2x burning speed
OpenSuse 10.3: Brasero 0.7.1 = 0.4x burning speed
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I've once had this happening with the 0.7.1 version and a NEC burner. But not 100% positive if it was the version. If possible you could try downgrading to the previous version (0.6.1 I think) to see if it fixes the issue.

Cheers,
Wj

Have you tried another bruning software such as K3B, gnomebaker or graveman?

Have you tried another bruning software such as K3B, gnomebaker or graveman?
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Just tried the Gnome "write files to cd/dvd" folder thing and it writes at the expected speed.

The implication is that it is Brasero. Any idea where I go to to dig deeper?

Cheers

I'd say it's a Brasero problem, based on my experience. I have a bug report filed over there that got lots of attention from the developer himself at first. Heh, seemed to die down as I distro hopped a lot and couldn't keep helping out testing things.

He did a few more fixes that he committed to svn, or whichever he uses for development, that did not make it into the 0.7.1 final release. However I think I recall reading the OpenSUSE changelog in YaST for Brasero and they said they included the additional fixes so I think that what we have is the latest work he's done with it.

I had slow burning speeds, failures on multisession cdr's that would make the cdr unreadable, and the verify files check never working (so I'd turn that off rather than the long wait while it fails). Once it went so far as to effect all other burning software while in Gnome, K3b, Nautilus, and Gnomebaker, but when I logged into KDE K3b worked normally.

In theory I'd prefer Brasero in Gnome, but 0.6.1 seems to be the one with the least amount of bugs. I can tell you that 0.7.1 has been in Debian unstable for a long, long time but 0.6.1 remains the version in Lenny so far. I don't know whether it's only because 0.7.1 does depend on some stuff that isn't in Lenny yet or that the known problems in the newer versions play a part in holding it up. Version 0.6.1 keeps working fine the few times I've logged into Gnome and had occasion to use it, but I've mostly used KDE for a while now. I change over to Gnome every so often just to have a different look and feel to things and use the Gnome software while I'm in there.

I'd say it's a Brasero problem, based on my experience. I have a bug report filed over there that got lots of attention from the developer himself at first. Heh, seemed to die down as I distro hopped a lot and couldn't keep helping out testing things.

He did a few more fixes that he committed to svn, or whichever he uses for development, that did not make it into the 0.7.1 final release. However I think I recall reading the OpenSUSE changelog in YaST for Brasero and they said they included the additional fixes so I think that what we have is the latest work he's done with it.

I had slow burning speeds, failures on multisession cdr's that would make the cdr unreadable, and the verify files check never working (so I'd turn that off rather than the long wait while it fails). Once it went so far as to effect all other burning software while in Gnome, K3b, Nautilus, and Gnomebaker, but when I logged into KDE K3b worked normally.

In theory I'd prefer Brasero in Gnome, but 0.6.1 seems to be the one with the least amount of bugs. I can tell you that 0.7.1 has been in Debian unstable for a long, long time but 0.6.1 remains the version in Lenny so far. I don't know whether it's only because 0.7.1 does depend on some stuff that isn't in Lenny yet or that the known problems in the newer versions play a part in holding it up. Version 0.6.1 keeps working fine the few times I've logged into Gnome and had occasion to use it, but I've mostly used KDE for a while now. I change over to Gnome every so often just to have a different look and feel to things and use the Gnome software while I'm in there.
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Yes its definitely a Brasero problem. Nero for Linux burns at the expected speeds - so having go it I'll use it.

Thanks for everyones help.