What is DVD-R buffer??

ilovefishsticks · 06-02-2005, 11:10 PM

I need to buy a new DVD-R drive and I see on the specs it says buffered or unbuffered. What is the diffrence and wut does it mean??? Any help appreciated

**Praetor** · 06-02-2005, 11:32 PM

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I need to buy a new DVD-R drive and I see on the specs it says buffered or unbuffered. What is the diffrence and wut does it mean??? Any help appreciated

Alll DVD burners have buffers on them. The buffer is a chunk of memory on the drive that the burner uses to write with (the drive doesnt burn directly from the HDD but rather from the HDD to the buffer and then to the disc)

Knight · 06-02-2005, 11:46 PM

Am I mixed up here? I thought a buffer for a DVD-R was a chunk of memory that, when the DVD-R burner would 'run out of' stuff to burn (which occurs when the user is doing other things on the computer), it would use that chunk of memory to burn while it waited for more data to arrive to be burnt (I thought it was one of those, once you start, you can't stop really type of things. )

**Praetor** · 06-03-2005, 08:20 PM

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Am I mixed up here? I thought a buffer for a DVD-R was a chunk of memory that, when the DVD-R burner would 'run out of' stuff to burn (which occurs when the user is doing other things on the computer), it would use that chunk of memory to burn while it waited for more data to arrive to be burnt (I thought it was one of those, once you start, you can't stop really type of things. )

There's two buffers: one buffer that comes with the physical drive itself, that one is called the DVD's buffer. The other buffer which is on the computer is associated with something called buffer underrun protection and is memory. All DVD burners have access to both of these (provided you enable the second one in your application).

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06-02-2005, 11:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
Knight New Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 18	Am I mixed up here? I thought a buffer for a DVD-R was a chunk of memory that, when the DVD-R burner would 'run out of' stuff to burn (which occurs when the user is doing other things on the computer), it would use that chunk of memory to burn while it waited for more data to arrive to be burnt (I thought it was one of those, once you start, you can't stop really type of things. )