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Nero taking FOURTEEN HOURS just to make a DVD?

BrokenVisage

BrokenVisage

Lifer
Hey guys, Im just curious about something after making my first DVD from 4 episodes of this show. The files are all MPEG format and like the topic said it took the sum of 14 hours to do whatever it does before it got to the burn session, which was fast btw on my new NEC-3520A. So is it common for "transcoding the stream" of MPEGs or AVIs to take a god awful amount of time or is it something in my settings making it take so long you think? I'm using Nero Express to do it all. Any suggestions for other programs would be great, and in the case of better/faster software money is no object. Thanks.
 
Welcome to the forums BrokenVisage 🙂

It is indeed common - the conversion of source video to MPEG2/VOB is what will take the longest time, especially if you have a lot of video, a slow processor, or a slow hard drive. However, 14 hours does seem a little much if your system is "newer." What are your system specs?

- M4H
 
Thanks for the welcome, Mercenary. I did all this on my Dell Inspiron laptop with a 1.6 Ghz Pentium M processor and 512 of RAM. I mean I never had many complants with speed issues on it since I could play Doom 3 and HL2 with good framerates at 1024x700, but i guess video encoding is another story. And I just bought it in the Summer of 04 so it is fairly new and should perform well enough, im just stumped on why it would take this long.
 
Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Thanks for the welcome, Mercenary. I did all this on my Dell Inspiron laptop with a 1.6 Ghz Pentium M processor and 512 of RAM. I mean I never had many complants with speed issues on it since I could play Doom 3 and HL2 with good framerates at 1024x700, but i guess video encoding is another story. And I just bought it in the Summer of 04 so it is fairly new and should perform well enough, im just stumped on why it would take this long.
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Pm 1.6G isn't exactly a speed demon when its comes to video encoding. Also, if you have a 5400rpm hard drive, that will add a few hours to the total as well. A lot of notebooks ship with slower drives. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Thanks for the welcome, Mercenary. I did all this on my Dell Inspiron laptop with a 1.6 Ghz Pentium M processor and 512 of RAM. I mean I never had many complants with speed issues on it since I could play Doom 3 and HL2 with good framerates at 1024x700, but i guess video encoding is another story. And I just bought it in the Summer of 04 so it is fairly new and should perform well enough, im just stumped on why it would take this long.
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Video encoding is very much another story here. You're being limited by the slow internal hard drive. Most laptop drives spin at only 4200RPM as opposed to a desktop's 7200 or 10K. It's a power-saving measure, but it eats into performance as well. The constant I/O sequence of "pull source video, seek to empty space, write destination video, return to source" is likely choking you. That system's not blazing, but it should be able to crunch video fast enough that the hard drive is the bottleneck. 🙁

- M4H
 
Bleh, yeah that makes sense since my laptop was made to be easy on the battery life, so the HD speed might just be the culprit. Can you guys recommend anything short of buying a faster one to help boost this process so maybe I could get it down to a simple overnight job in most cases? Its a kind of sh!tty realization since I just got this burner expecting easy and fast DVD creating.
 
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