How long should it take to burn 4.3gb DVD from a captured TV file on the HD?

[freakflag]

Because according to NERO...it's gonna take 2 hours. Can that be right?

 

[SrGuapo]

I know nothing about transfer speeds on a DVD burner, but that sounds about right. What drive do you have? Sometimes the estimates are a worse case scenario assuming the user has a horribly old CPU and 64MB of RAM and is trying to play 3 other games at the same time.

 

[freakflag]

Originally posted by: SrGuapo
I know nothing about transfer speeds on a DVD burner, but that sounds about right. What drive do you have? Sometimes the estimates are a worse case scenario assuming the user has a horribly old CPU and 64MB of RAM and is trying to play 3 other games at the same time.

LOL...that's not me, man.

I'm running a Pioneer DVR-108 with 3200 Barton core and a full gig of PC3500.

I don't think the actual "burning" is the problem, though. The drive itself hasn't spun up once as of yet. It's like it's transferring files internally?

 

[oupei]

are you just burning the files or are you talking about converting the video too? cuz burning a dvd at 4x speed is like 12-15min for me. if you need to convert the tv file on the fly that's what's gonna hold you back then...

 

[freakflag]

Originally posted by: oupei
are you just burning the files or are you talking about converting the video too? cuz burning a dvd at 4x speed is like 12-15min for me. if you need to convert the tv file on the fly that's what's gonna hold you back then...

Maybe THAT's what's taking so long. Is there a way to do that before I start the actual burn process? Or is there a much simpler method to do this altogether? (I'm kinda new to the whole video editing thing. )

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, most likely it is encoding the video, and that will take a while.

 

[tweeve2002]

it takes my 3.2Ghz P4 about 2 - 2.5 hours to encode a full DVD. You might be able to speed the encoding up a little by going into the options and changing the encoding to single pass instead of the default double pass. but if you do that you might lose quality.

 

[n7]

Encoding is a long process.

I would assume that's what Nero is doing now.

 

[freakflag]

Thanks everyone! At least now I can stop calling my new burner a POS.:beer:

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: freakflag
Thanks everyone! At least now I can stop calling my new burner a POS.:beer:

If you capture in 720x480 MPEG2 (at <9Mbps), it won't need to re-encode the files (this assumes you are authoring a DVD for playback in a set-top player). You might want to check out www.doom9.org for way, way more information along these lines.