One of the issues with
Pioneer DVD-R drives is currently the amount of DVD-R media that is
supported at full speed. As Pioneer wants the best quality burns for consumers
the company has put the appropiate speed of media in the firmware of their PC
DVD recording drives, but not all media is in there.
To be able to burn
their media at full speed some people have 'hacked' the Pioneer firmware and
added their media to it to enable the drive to write it at more then one speed.
Besides that they also have disabled the region code.
| Pioneer DVR-A05 and DVR-105 Flashing Guide/FAQ  Q:This hacked firmware stuff, what is thatabout? A:Well, as you might have noticed, burning-speed to a DVD-r media is limited by the drive. Because of this, you can only write at higher speeds to certain media, if this media is certified by Pioneer. Because some media which aren't certified by Pioneer, allow faster burning then 1x (for example : in a different DVD-Recorder), we also should be able to burn them faster. To accomplish this either Pioneer itself or some 3rd party should add MediaID's (read below) to the media-table in the firmware of the drive. Ofcourse Pioneer isn't doing this, so programmers here try to do this. Q:So, a hacked firmware actually enables me to burn faster to slow media? A:In short, YES. |
Most of the things related to this subject are done on the forums of the
Firmware
Page. Note that these kind of hacks may void your warranty and are not
supported by Pioneer. If you would like to learn more about firmwares, then also
visit our Firmware Forum.
Source: RPC1
