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Posted by john smith on 05/29/07 19:00
"Jeff" <j@donotspam.me> wrote in message
news:Xns993F8750187E0jdonotspamme@207.115.33.102...
> 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.
>
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...
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