Nero 6

[K6-III]

Originally posted by ayoub_ibrahim
hmm, why would you want to do that?
smart burn is like buffer under-run protection to prevent you burning coasters!

There is a separate box there for buffer-underrun protection.

Smart-Burn, on the other hand, determines the speed that the disc is capable of and caps the burner...

[Wombat]

Ayoub, you are thinking of BURN-proof.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

afaik Burn proof & smart burn are trade marks used by the different manufacturers. they effectively do the same thing in preventing costers.
in nero, you only get the smart burn check box with a liteon cdrw, the buffer under run protection box is greyed out.

Quote:
SMART-BURN is the abbreviation of " Smart Monitoring & Adapting Recording Technology for BURNing ", innovated CD-RW technology by LITE-ON IT, will be introduced to other products in the future.

Users always want to successfully burn a disc with a higher speed in CD-RW drive. You may know, there are so many brands of CD-R / CD-RW media in the market with irregular quality & still being cost down in the price war.

If your CD-R / CD-RW media quality is really poor enough or working environment is too hot to induce the Laser Power over margin, the CD-RW drive detected, the burning speed will be forced to decrease to get more reliable Laser working power to secure the life of CD-RW drive & burning quality.ategy parameters plus the outstanding running Optimum Power Calibration ( OPC ) function to provide you the best burning quality.

The buffer under run error is also no longer happened to your drive anymore, SMART-BURN also can allow drive to be suspended during writing, than continue to burn from last point when enough data get in the buffer.

SMART-BURN features :

1. Buffer Under Run Error Free

2. Running Optimum Power Calibration

3. Automatic Writing Strategy & Burning Parameters

4. Automatically decrease burning speed when Laser power over margin due to poor media quality or high temperature.

[K6-III]

My memorex drive, a LiteOn 52x OEM, has both Buffer Underrun Protection and Smart-Burn boxes available for manipulation.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by ayoub_ibrahim
[B]afaik Burn proof & smart burn are trade marks used by the different manufacturers. they effectively do the same thing in preventing costers.

Nope. BURN-Proof is just the buffer underrun, where it can turn off the laser if the buffer empties. "Smart" BURN will limit burn speed according to media & other factors.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Originally posted by Wombat
Nope. BURN-Proof is just the buffer underrun, where it can turn off the laser if the buffer empties. "Smart" BURN will limit burn speed according to media & other factors.

what I was suggesting is smart burn, which includes buffer under run protection, much like BURN-Proof but by a different name, should not be turned off.


"The buffer under run error is also no longer happened to your drive anymore, SMART-BURN also can allow drive to be suspended during writing, than continue to burn from last point when enough data get in the buffer".

[DentyCracker]

No Ayoub, smartburn does not include Burn-proof. Burn proof is as stated the ability to pause and resume writing. What smartburn does is to read the ATIP of the blank disk and adjust the writing strategy accordingly. So if the firmware of the drive doesn't recognise the ATIP of the CD-R blank then it defaults to 24 or 32x usually. If the ATIP is known then it burns in accordance with what the firmware tells it that it can. You can turn off smartburn and get faster burns. They however may have more errors than if smartburn was on.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Denty, you don't seem to have read the info which I quoted from liteon above:

SMART-BURN also can allow drive to be suspended during writing, than continue to burn from last point when enough data get in the buffer.