Posted by FAQmeister on 10/08/05 05:13

"spinach47" <spinach1947@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:QMD1f.2007$MN6.1872@fed1read04
> When burning a DVD it takes 30+ hours.
> My goal is to copy over 50, 2-hour, family video tapes to DVD for my
> children and me.
> At this rate I won't live long enough to get them done.
>
> My computer is a Sony VAIO PCG-FRV31. It has a Celeron 2.4 Ghz CPU
> with 448 mb of RAM.
> The OS is XP SP2.
> I first capture the home movie to an external hard drive. It is a
> Maxtor One Touch 100Gb drive.
> The DVD burner is a Sony DRX720UL 8x.
> The media is TDK DVD-R 8x discs.
> The burning software is Nero 6 Ultra Edition. It lets me know it
> won't fit on a single DVD but says it can compress it to make it fit.
> I respond OK. I was not connected to the internet while burning. I
> also stopped all processes I felt comfortable stopping during the
> burn.
> The recent video file I have captured is 34 GB. Nero estimated it
> would take 32 hours. I started the copy and it would have taken that
> long. I aborted it. Also, I monitored the performance with Windows
> Task Manager while it was burning and the CPU usage was at 100% the
> whole time. The only video I successfully burned was also about 30 gb
> and it did take 30+ hours to burn. It came out fine.
> Does anyone have any ideas what my problem is and suggestions on how
> to burn in a much more reasonable time?
> Thanks in advance.

Best bet (and cheapest) is to cut down on the file sizes so that they
won't have to be compressed so much. You can do 1 hour at a time or
fiddle with the options for the capture (resolution, bit rate, etc) to
make smaller files.
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