DVD is short for ‘Digital Versatile Disc’ and it is an optical disc storage media format that is capable of storing large amount of data. DVD benchmarking tools are used to analyze the quality of the disc. Both the audio and the video quality of the disc are tested with the DVD benchmarking tools and a quality score is usually provided at the end of the test. The quality score can be used for comparing quality of the DVDs. DVD benchmarking tools carry out a number of tests to determine the read and write quality of the disc and also, to make sure there are no bad or unreadable sectors available on the disc.

DVD benchmarking tools reveals a lot of interesting information about the disc like manufacturer, sessions, tracks, format and more. A read test is carried out to scan the disc for unreadable sectors whereas a read transfer rate test is used to calculate the transfer rate of all the sectors available on the disc. The raw data errors are also counted so as to determine the quality of the disc. In addition to the read test, jitter rate is also determined in order to check the write quality of the disc.

Nero DiscSpeed and PlexTools are some of the popular applications that are used for checking the quality of the DVDs and the CDs. Both applications carry out a number of tests so as to determine the quality of the disc. Read transfer rate test, write transfer rate test, jitter test, PI/PO test and C1/C2 test are some of the tests that are carried out by Nero DiscSpeed and PlexTools for analyzing the discs. In order to test the quality of the disc, all you need to do is to insert the disc into the drive and then select the tests from the menu of the benchmarking tool. A number of quality checks are carried out thoroughly and the result is displayed.