I turned off dither, etc in options but it still takes several minutes of processing time on my 1.8GHz Athlon. Anything I can do?

(XP, v.666, a few plugins)

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The burn CD feature is amazing. I'm too damn lazy to load Nero normally, but now I burn a CD every other day and pop it into my new car player. Thanks!

you didnt hear it from me, but there is a plugin that burns without decoding to disk first.

Really, if the burner has some sort of underrun protection, it shouldn't need to decode to disk first.

No matter the buffer underrun correction, you still end up with gaps in the recording, no matter how small. Formats such as APE and OFR really don't decode fast enough for the average modern recorder. (48x+, anyone?) APE decodes at about 5.2x on my system, with OFR decoding about 0.7x. Intel Celeron 1GHz clocked at 1.12GHz. YMMV.
If you need an extra burst of speed, set your TMP environment variable to a directory on your fastest drive, because that's where the temporary raw files will end up. You can also open a command prompt for a more temporary solution, perhaps just before burn jobs: (And I mean CMD.exe or Command.com. Yes, I suppose some may be confused since Run... does accept commands.)



Change the paths to fit your needs.

gaps in the actual 'pits' burned to the disc, yes. gaps in the data when you read it back, no. the length of the 'link' or gap is indeed measurable, but it is pretty much meaningless since it's not going to be enough to matter since the disc is being read with a process designed to fix errors much much larger than the 'link' that occurs when the buffer underrun mechanism kicks in and does its thing.

<edit> in other words the 'link' gaps aren't going to be audible, since they're well well below the limit of correctable errors, you'll never hear them because they'll be corrected for, if they're even noticed at all by the reader.

I'm on a 10k RPM disk so I don't think I'm hard disk limited- I can copy a 700MB CD several times in the time it takes foobar to complete. I just ran the Nero test and it got 50000kb/s . . . probably a little faster then reality but not enough to account for the encode time. Does it do anything else?

Also, where do I get said plugin?

Lucky. My crappy pair of 29GB drives only manage to churn out enough speed for 32x over most parts of the drive. Oh well, not like they cost me anything.