Re: Takes forever to burn a DVD
- From: Ray K <raykosXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:57:41 -0400
john smith wrote:
"Jeff" <j@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns993F8750187E0jdonotspamme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxRay K <raykosXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:465C1C6E.9060703@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
Jeff wrote:I regularly use ConvertXtoDVD to transcode full length movies in about an
<snip>Jeff,
The source of your problem is right in your first sentence. You
cannot simply burn wma files to a disc to make a DVD. They must
first be transcoded to VOB files that meet certains standards for
frame size and audio/video bit rates. The first 90% of the three
hours was transcoding and the remainder was the actual burning of the
converted files.
You've hit the nail on the head. In following the suggestions of the
other guys, I updated my burner firmware, the Roxio suite to 8.05, and
uninstalled the secondary IDE channel. I didn't try the registry
changes to force DMA because I'm not using XP.
(For the record, before uninstalling the IDE channel, the settings for
both devices on both channels were as follows: Device type: Auto
Detection (grayed); Transfer Mode: DMA if available; Current Transfer
Mode: Ultra DMA (grayed). After rebooting, the secondary channel
returned with the Transfer Mode defaulted to PIO only; I set it to DMA
if available.)
I started burning with all the above changes. Still the snail's pace.
As I looked closer at the progress display, I saw that what's taking
so long is an encoding process. So far, it has taken 20 minutes to
encode 7% of the first 20-minute movie. None of the lights on the
burner are on during this phase, so the actual burning probably will
occur at high speed once the encoding finally ends.
While this was going on, I returned to this NG and read Jeff's post.
It's clear that's he has identified the real problem.
Now the question becomes, how to speed the conversion to VOB? Are
there specialty programs that could do it faster than what's included
with the Roxio program?
While it's moot at this point, in response to def456 I am using Maxell
4.7GB DVD-R 8X blanks. Dave, the wonderful links you thoughtfully
provided are mainly geared to XP, so as noted above I didn't try
registry changes.
Thanks to all.
Ray
hour. This is with a 2.6 GHz processor so on yours it might be a little
longer. The real load on the PC when transcoding is in hard disk I/O so
the processor speed doesn't play a big part in the time.
While VSO's ConvertXtoDVD is pretty good, it's also interminably slow. If you want ease and speed I'd go with WinAVIVideoConverter which lets you convert between a whole range of formats (WMV, AVI, MPEG, etc.) and only takes about 20 minutes to author a 700MB file...
The size of my three wmv files together is 482MB. The size of the resulting six vob files, including the opening menu, is 3.07GB. So if you mean 20 minutes to produce a 700MB vob file, my project would take 88 minutes (20 x 3.07/.7 = 88) - a vast improvement compared to 5+ hours. Have I done the math right?
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