Form my own experience it;s not likely to be the Adobe s/w at all.

Could be ewither of a couple of other things that have happened to me personally...

The blank media you inserted is not accredited 16x or 8x or whatever. Don;t know how it works but these drives seem to 'know' how fast the particular blank media is and adjust accordingly. Even if your blank media is labeleld as 8x or 16x then it may just be a bad one that can only be written at at 1x.

Or. Late last year my DVD burner was consistently slower and slower. From conversations I had it seemed to be the case that DVD/CD burners to 'wear out' sort of. The laser get unfocusd or something. SO with an unfocused laser the best good burn you can get is 1x instead of the hop0ed for 8x. I spent £20 (UKP) on a new burner and burn times have jumped right up (or down!) again and all is rosey.

Anyway, those are my personal experiences.

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