I'm wondering if I have a problem here.

When I'm writing a DVD, the bar in the "Recorder Buffer Level / State" box goes left and right pretty steadily. The entire burn process it goes from about 99% down to about 10% and back up again. Now, I thought that this bar should stay full the entire time. Am I wrong about that? I only think there's a problem because my burning takes much longer than it should. For example, I'm burning a 2.9GB DVD at the moment, and it is at 32% after 21 minutes. At this rate it will take an hour when, at 2x, it should take about 17 minutes!

Now that I look at it, it appears that the read speed is fluctuating. Why is that? At the moment I only have IE open, and that's not taking up much resources, because I'm just typing.

Any suggestions?