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Posted by Ray K on 05/29/07 19:57
john smith wrote:
> "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...
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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