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Nero DiscSpeed (Nero CD-DVD Speed) detail information

Posted by H3rB3i
Posted on 02/11/2006
Manufacturer Nero
Product Nero DiscSpeed (Nero CD-DVD Speed)
Description CD-DVD Speed is designed to execute a number of tests to verify optical drives function and to determine burned media quality
Current version 4.11.2.0
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Views: 29879.
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CD-DVD Speed is a software designed to execute a number of tests to verify optical drives (both burners and readers) functionality and to determine burned media quality.

Nero CD-DVD Speed 4


  • Standard benchmarking tool for CD and DVD drives
  • Basic and advanced drive/media tests
  • Graphical display of results, test protocols and easy import/export function
  • Create special test discs (data and audio)
  • Improved user interface including window resize
  • More customization options for graphs
  • Gradient backgrounds
  • More detailed information is shown for disc info
  • Disc information can be copied to the clipboard as plain text or HTML
  • Increased accuracy of Scan Disc
  • C1/C2 or PI/PO information can be used to check the disc quality which gives much more detailed information than a standard read test
  • The quality of each track (AudioCD), chapter (DVD Video) or file (Data disc) is shown, making it very easy to verify the integrity of the disc contents
  • DVD-RAM can be burned without verification with the Write Transfer Rate
  • Test Added support to erase DVD-RAM

 

Standard tests contain following tests and measurements:

  • Transfer rate test
  • DAE speed/quality test
  • Seek/Access times
  • CPU usage
  • Burst rate
  • Spin-up/spin-down times
  • Load/eject times

 

Detailed tests contain following tests and measurements:


  • Advanced DAE test (detailed analysis)
  • Overburning test
  • CD quality test
  • ScanDisc function (file test and surface scan)
  • Media ATIP information
  • Reading mode detection (CAV, CLV, P-CAV, Z-CLV)
  • Support for UltraSpeed CD-RW
  • Support for CD Extra/Mixed Mode/Video CD
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Essential tool for disc quality scans and more.

I use this with both my LiteOn (K-Probe is an alternative for the LiteOn's) and BenQ drives for TRT tests and quality scanning of CD-R and DVD media.

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CD-DVD Speed - A user guide
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    Changelogs

    4.11.2.0

    Posted by H3rB3i

    Changes

    • Added tooltips
    • Many small improvements and bug fixes

    Download 4.11.2.0


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    4.7.7.15

    Posted by H3rB3i

    Changes:

    • Improved support for HD DVD, BD and DVD-RW DL
    • Moved capture button from title bar to client area
    • BitSetting: improved support for LG and LiteOn drives
    • Disc Quality Test
      - added jitter support for Liteon 20A3 drives
      - improved support for recent Asus drives
    • Small improvements and bug fixes

    Download 4.7.7.15


    4.7.7.5

    Posted by H3rB3i

    • Improved support for HD DVD-RW (DL)
    • Disc Quality Test: improved support for Asus drives with a Mediatek chipset. I compared scans from the Asus 1814BL with scans from LiteOn drives and they where almost identical.
    • Jitter scan speed for LiteOn drives can be selected with a registry value:
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\ahead\\Nero Toolkit\\CD Speed\\CD Quality REG_DWORD Speed Jitter
    • small improvements

    Download 4.7.7.5


    4.7.7.3

    Posted by H3rB3i

    • Disc Quality Test: added support for blu-ray testing with Mediatek based drives
    • Added preliminary support for HD DVD-RW SL/DL
    • Small improvements and bug fixes

    Download 4.7.7.3


    4.7.5.0

    Posted by H3rB3i

     

    Changes:

    - Added TA jitter test for recent LiteOn drives
    - Added support for DVD-RW DL and DVD+RW DL
    - Disc Quality Test
          - Improved jitter reporting for LiteOn drives
          - Added recorder information in statistics window
          - PI/PIF averages calculated differently
    - Added support for hybrid discs
    - File dialogs are resizable
    - Small improvements and bug fixes

     

    Download 4.7.5.0


    4.7.0.2

    Posted by H3rB3i

    No detailed changelog available

    Download 4.7.0.2


    4.7.0.0

    Posted by H3rB3i

    Changes: -Added Advanced Disc Quality test for certain BenQ drives. Following parameters are measured: CD: E11,E21,E31,E12,E22,E32,BLER,Jitter DVD: 1-5 PIE,PIE,PIF,POE,POF,Jitter -Disc Quality test: Jitter can be reported with recent LiteOn drives Added CLV and P-CAV settings for BenQ drives (CD scanning) -Added Advanced options button Replaced 'Write and Verify' option by 'Streaming' option -Bitsetting: improved support for NEC drives -Small improvements and bug fixes

    Download 4.7.0.0


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