MCSE Thread (Version 1.2.0.10 - 2011.10.03)

fahrenheit · **Joined:** Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:30 pm **Posts:** 273

You can see the firmware name appear in the MCSE header of the main appz window though. I am using XP on the VPC too. I see no wording in the main panel at all though.

What happened to the edit buttons on the board?

ala42 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:17 pm

Please do not crosspost.

fahrenheit · **Joined:** Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:30 pm **Posts:** 273

I wasn't sure where to post but your post still doesn't answer my question

Puma · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:35 am

fahrenheit wrote:

What happened to the edit buttons on the board?

Good spot, there seems to be a bug in the prosilver theme, will have a look to fix this asap.

Gradius · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:49 pm

GH22NP20 has DVD-Video limit ripping (on DVD-R) currectly is capped at 5x max.

Any plan to unlock ripping speed for this drive ?

Gradius

ala42 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:58 pm

Gradius wrote:

GH22NP20 has DVD-Video limit ripping (on DVD-R) currectly is capped at 5x max.

Any plan to unlock ripping speed for this drive ?

Already done three month ago, and you got an answer to your same question already on Dec 3rd in this thread.

Gradius · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:22 pm

ala42 wrote:

Gradius wrote:

GH22NP20 has DVD-Video limit ripping (on DVD-R) currectly is capped at 5x max.

Any plan to unlock ripping speed for this drive ?

Already done three month ago, and you got an answer to your same question already on Dec 3rd in this thread.

Well, for some reason isn't working I'll re-checked if I didn't applied RPC-2 over RPC-1 by accident.

Btw, is 6x cap, not 5x.

Gradius

Puma · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:03 pm

Quote:

Well, for some reason isn't working I'll re-checked if I didn't applied RPC-2 over RPC-1 by accident

make sure RPC1/Riplock patch is ticked, and that you choose the patched firmware to flash

Gradius · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:36 pm

Found the error, I wasn't using:

Read speed: increase or decrease feature.

That one got me confused, I was thinking it allow you to inc or dec a specific media type, and not refered as a general unlock/lock speed.

I would prefered to use Read speed: unlock or lock (or original speed) instead, but hey this is only me.

Thanks,
Gradius

ala42 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:59 am

MediaCodeSpeedEdit V1.1.0.22 is out

Code:

Changelog
1.1.0.22 30 Mar 2009
        - added support for LG GH22NS40 NL01, GH22LS40 LL01     
        - added support for LG GSA-T50N
        - fixed problem swapping DL media on LG GH22xx20/GH22xx30
          Thanks to zhadoom for reporting the problem and for the tests.
        - added riplock patch for LG GSA-T40N
        - added riplock patch for LG GS21N
        - added GH20<->GE20 crossflash support
        - forgot to mention LG GE20LU10 support in previous release
        
        - added RPC1 patch for ASUS DRW-1612, DRW-1814, DRW-2014 firmwares

        - added support for Buffalo PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116L/216L 8.09 firmwares

        - added support for ASUS DRW-22B1S/ST (iHAP322/iHAS322 clone)
        - added support for ASUS DRW-22B1LT (iHAS422 clone)
        - added support for MSI ATAPI DVD A  DH22A8S (iHAS322 clone)
        - added support for SONY DVD RW DRU-860S/865S 1.62 (iHAS322/422 clone)
        - added support for Optiarc DVD RW AD-7221S 1.00 (iHAS422 clone)

        - added unpack instructions for ASUS UPX packed firmwares
        - added unpack instructions for Pioneer WinRAR SFX packed firmwares
        - added unpack instructions for Samsung Zip packed firmwares

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ala42 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:07 pm

MediaCodeSpeedEdit V1.2.0.0 is out

Code:

Changelog
1.2.0.0  7 Jun 2009
        Higher read speeds for LG BD drives
        - added LG BH08LS20/BH08NS20 support for DVD riplock, BD riplock
          and read speed patch, RPC2 patches.
          Media list is currently not available.
        - added BD DL read speed patch for LG GGW-H20x/GGC-H20x drives
          BD-R DL and BD-ROM DL read speed is increased from 5x to 6x,
          saving ~12 minutes for a full rip. No BD-RE patch yet.
        - added BD-RE read speed patch for BH08 drives
          BD-RE SL and BD-RE DL read speed is increased from 4.8x to 8x,
          6x read speed is also available
        - added BD riplock patch for LG GGW-H20x/GGC-H20x/BH08xS20
          BD video disks are locked at 4.8x with the original firmware.
          Together with the other patches you get 6x read speed on the
          GGW-H20x/GGC-H20x and 8x read speed on the BH08.          
        Thanks to MegaDETH, nekrosoft13, zevia, zhadoom for the tests.
        
        - modified LG RPC2 Auto Reset patch to set change counter to 5 when 
          it is 0. This revives drives with all 5 changes done.
        - added support for LG GSA-T50L
        - fixed bug in GSA-H1x increase read speed patch probably introduced 
          in V1.1.0.17
          Thanks to HM01 for reporting the problem.           
        - fixed bug disabling the LG GSA-4163 read speed patch
          Thanks to d3praved for reporting the problem.

        - added read only support for Liteon ATAPI iHAS324
        - added read only support for ASUS DRW-24B1S/ST (iHAP324/iHAS324 clone)
        - added support for Samsung TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-S223B/L SB01
        - added support for Samsung TSSTcorpCDDVDW TS-H653R SC00
        - added support for Samsung TSSTcorpCDDVDW TS-H663B JY00, TG00 

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ala42 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:40 pm

MediaCodeSpeedEdit V1.2.0.1 is out

Code:

Changelog
1.2.0.1 20 Jun 2009
        - added support for PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-117F/217L 1.07 firmwares
          Bitset and RPC1 patches are available.
          Read speed patch allows 16x reading of 8x +R/-R media.          
          Pressed DL media read at 6.9x start, 16x max speed.
        - added support for PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-216R 1.06 firmware

        - added read only support for ASUS DRW-24B1ST 1.00 (iHAP124/iHAS124 clone)
        - added read only support for HP DVD Writer 1260dKH23 (iHAP124/iHAS124 clone)

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Dkaiser · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:37 am **Posts:** 4

I could also sucessfully flashed my DVR-217 1.05 to DVR-217L 1.07 (together with RPC1 using MSCE). My hearty thanks to all.

However, my main objective is not to increase the write speed, but rather to include the lower possible write speed option (for video and audio burning purpose). The previous firmware dvr-217 1.50 only support the lowest write speed at 4x for both dvd-r and dvd+r.

During patching the dvr-217L 1.07 in MSCE, I noticed this firmware support lowest write speed to 2.4x (dvd+r) and 2x (dvd-r). So only RPC1 option was selected and nothing done to the write speed change, then saved and sucessfully flashed the firmware.

After restart the xp os, I used Nero Inf tool to check the drive and disc information (inserted a blank DVDr media), only the RPC1 patched worked, the lowest write speed possible for both DVD+R & DVD-R is still at 4x support.

Will highly appreciate any help to solve this problem!

ala42 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:14 pm

There is no way to get the drive to write slower than built in. It also makes no sense, as the write quality was worse. It is just a never ending rumor that low write speed improves the write quality. Drive and media are optimized for higher write speeds. The time of 1x and 2x burns on single layer disks is over.
Use better media in case you have problems.

chef · **Posted:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:10 pm

Dkaiser wrote:

I could also sucessfully flashed my DVR-217 1.05 to DVR-217L 1.07 (together with RPC1 using MSCE). My hearty thanks to all.

However, my main objective is not to increase the write speed, but rather to include the lower possible write speed option (for video and audio burning purpose). The previous firmware dvr-217 1.50 only support the lowest write speed at 4x for both dvd-r and dvd+r.

There is no sense in writing slower.

Dkaiser · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:37 am **Posts:** 4

Low write speed is a very controversial topic! I understand it is not appropriate to discuss here.
Anyway just for my curiosity, this MCSE, apart from modifying to a higher write/read speed, can we also apply a lower write speed strategy?
Excuse me, I am a newbie, if you guys think this is a silly question, then just forget and erase this post...

Puma · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:00 pm

Dkaiser wrote:

Low write speed is a very controversial topic! I understand it is not appropriate to discuss here.
Anyway just for my curiosity, this MCSE, apart from modifying to a higher write/read speed, can we also apply a lower write speed strategy?
Excuse me, I am a newbie, if you guys think this is a silly question, then just forget and erase this post...

you can discuss it all you want, nobody is saying it's not appropriate, just that, these days there is no need to burn at low speeds, as explained, its all just a myth, that has spread all over the net, that the slower you burn, the better the result, may we ask why you want to burn at lower speeds?

Coaster · **Joined:** Fri Dec 06, 2002 2:18 am **Posts:** 635

@ Dkaiser,

You can attempt to use the Media Code Speed Edit software tool to modify your Pioneer DVR-217 Firmware to write your Media at slower speed if you desire but why even attempt to do this? It should be noted that Pioneer hardware/software engineers have spent numerous hours and extensive research to ensure their Firmware provides the best possible results. Do you really believe that you are going to somehow ‘Improve’ Pioneer hardware/software engineers efforts by slowing down their Firmware?

Suggest reviewing Forum Member ala42 (the author of the Media Code Speed Edit software tool) Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:14 AM posting and understand the factual information that Forum Member ala42 is providing.

If your goal is obtain quality error free Audio/Video Burning results use known proven quality error free Media such as Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim Media which has an excellent proven track record of providing quality error free results.

Regards,
Coaster

Dkaiser · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:37 am **Posts:** 4

This is from my own experience of burning cd audio for a number of years. After several test method either open, blind or a/b with friends, we all shared the opinion that sound differed from various speed burning, slower the better! Of course the right combination of cdrs+drives+software config etc also made beter audio quality. For me, those media labeled with "for audio use" (higher graded Sony audio, Mitsubishi phono-r, TDK audio or Pistek audio), burned by Plextor cd-rw verrirec mode or Yamaha F1 audio master quality mode at 1x speed, always provide the best sound as compared to higher speed or any speed from other drives so far.

Then during the last few years, I tried burning high resolution DvD-audio, although not as much as I burned cd-audio, and the sound quality difference by various speed is not so obvious like those of cd-audio, but audible! As a result, I am thinking of trying 2x to see any further improvement - just for my curiosity, experiment or someone say "test to proof". Stubborn! you guys may think I am?

Again I repeat this is all from my personal experience and opinion shared with a group of friends that slower speed provide better sound quality? Perhaps we are all wrong, correct us if we are?

Sorry for my poor broken English...when I said it is not appropriate; I meant I should post such a controversial topic in other forum since this is the firmware page. Anyway, to make my point why I posted here; just want to know can I edit in MCSE for lower speed strategy, say 2x, to dvd-r media?

Thanks Coaster for your advice & media recommedation (I have tried Verbatim, but not Taiyo Yuden - will try soon)...

chef · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:12 pm

TY media is now available under the brand JVC.

Coaster · **Joined:** Fri Dec 06, 2002 2:18 am **Posts:** 635

@ Dkaiser,

One of the highly respected Firmware “Modifiers” Forum Member Forum Member ala42 (the author of the Media Code Speed Edit software tool) in his Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:14 AM posting has attempted to explain to you that “It is just a never ending rumour that low write speed improves the write quality. Drive and media are optimised for higher write speeds. The time of 1x and 2x burns on single layer disks is over” but apparently you doubt his knowledge and expertise in this area.

When a modern DVD Burner is used with modern quality error free Media Burning the Media at excessively slow speeds (1x, 2x speeds) does not produce better quality results than Burning the Media at or slightly slower then the rated speed of Media. The best quality results are obtained by Burning the Media at or slightly slower then the rated speed of Media. The DVD Burner, Firmware, and Media are designed and optimized to produce the optimal quality when Burning at or slightly slower than the Media rated speed. This is a well-documented proven fact. If you doubt this well-documented proven fact suggest reviewing the numerous Disc Quality Scans posted at CDFreaks DVD Burner Forum (http://club.cdfreaks.com/f61) for well-documented pictorial documentation that Burning the Media at or slightly slower then the rated speed of Media produces better quality results than burning the same media at excessively slow speeds.

Dkaiser wrote:

..... want to know can I edit in MCSE for lower speed strategy, say 2x, to dvd-r media.....

It appear that you are overlooking Member Forum Member ala42 Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:14 AM posting statement ->

ala42 wrote:

.....There is no way to get the drive to write slower than built in......

Regards,
bjkg

ala42 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:32 pm

DVD data and DVD audio disks have the same strong error correction. There is no way a player can get wrong data. When you heavily scratch the disk or kill it with days of direct sunlight complete data blocks are unreadable, not available for playback. The CD audio format does not have such kind of error protection as it was not designed for data storage.
In the early days the main problem was to keep the sustained data rate needed for burning because the PC, interface performance and buffer size were low. These problems are gone with today's fast hardware.

chef · **Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:55 am

Actual burners only have optimized write strategies for actual and mainstream media these days, eg. 8x and 16x DVD.
That is mainly the reason why burning media slower than usual or rated makes no sense at all....

Dkaiser · **Joined:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:37 am **Posts:** 4

Coaster wrote:

apparently you doubt his knowledge and expertise in this area.

Kindly understand that I do believe in Member ala42's knowledge and expertise in any area - that's the reason why I've posted my queries here. Besides, I downloaded his firmware and relative tools to patch my DvD drive; my first and only time ever to flash a burner's firmware! It make no sense for me to do this should I have any doubt in his ability?

Puma wrote:

you can discuss it all you want, nobody is saying it's not appropriate, just that, these days there is no need to burn at low speeds, as explained, its all just a myth, that has spread all over the net, that the slower you burn, the better the result, may we ask why you want to burn at lower speeds?

I elaborated in my previous post, my experience and personal opinion of low speed burning cd audio, just to answer the above.

ala42 wrote:

DVD data and DVD audio disks have the same strong error correction. There is no way a player can get wrong data. When you heavily scratch the disk or kill it with days of direct sunlight complete data blocks are unreadable, not available for playback. The CD audio format does not have such kind of error protection as it was not designed for data storage.
In the early days the main problem was to keep the sustained data rate needed for burning because the PC, interface performance and buffer size were low. These problems are gone with today's fast hardware

This is absolutely a crystal clear explanation to me, thanks...

Well guys, my hearty thanks again to all your valuable advice as well as your patience to educate me. I do appreciate and really feel grateful toward your helpful attitude and hope to get the same in my future post?

Regards
Dks

K3v!n · **Joined:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:30 am **Posts:** 6

Hey everyone

Thanks for dropping by, Ive done a search and had a good read around but I'm still unsure about a few things, hope I didnt miss something

I'm running Windows XP SP3 with a SHS-223B drive. I understand that I have to alter the firmware to run RPC1 with MCSE to make the drive region free but I'm unsure how as the screenshots don't appear to have this setting. The screenshots for MCSE.

If possible would like instructions or hints as I am aware of how I am ruin the whole drive

Thanks already - Kevin

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