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Posted by Jeff on 05/29/07 17:18
Ray K <raykosXXX@optonline.net> wrote in
news:465C1C6E.9060703@optonline.net:
> Jeff wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Jeff,
>
> 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
>
>
>
I regularly use ConvertXtoDVD to transcode full length movies in about an
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.
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