Windows 7 Home Premium. W-dvdmaker. Pie chart reads: 0 to 150. 150? Is this stuck on reading for DVDR-9? I thought most everyday discs were DVDR-5 with a one hour default. Do not see easy way to change write speed. (operator error?) Does changing write speed allow for more than one hour? Answers not found in tutorial or help. Thank you.

First of all 150 min is 2 1/2 hours...60 minutes = 1 hour The amount of info you can write to a DVD has nothing whatsoever to do with the speed of the data being written to the DVD... ..if you drive a mile its still a mile wether you drive at 30mph or 100 mph As for the capacity of DVD to hold data see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD peter If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "viewerx" wrote in message news:5f92cfd5-bd64-4179-b4b5-05bfeb3964fb... Windows 7 Home Premium. W-dvdmaker. Pie chart reads: 0 to 150. 150? Is this stuck on reading for DVDR-9? I thought most everyday discs were DVDR-5 with a one hour default. Do not see easy way to change write speed. (operator error?) Does changing write speed allow for more than one hour? Answers not found in tutorial or help. Thank you.

Erm, you do realize that 150 minutes is 2.5 hours, don't you? The amount of video a DVD is capable of holding depends on the compression algorithm used in the video encoding, not the write speed of the disc.

This is why I asked the question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why does something that should be restricted to 1 hour have a pie chart that shows a 2.5 hour capability. If the DVD maker can record more than one hour it is better than most other recorders. My question probably should have been: does the recorder make DVDrs that are longer than one hour? Thank you.

Once again, it all depends on the encoding of the original video. At 480p (or less) you could probably get a bit over two hours of video onto a standard DVD-R disc. 720p at ~2 hours would require a double layer disc, with some space left over for "extras". 480p is considered SD (standard definition) and 720p is HD (high definition).