Posted by spinach47 on 10/09/05 01:20

I will research your suggestions. thx
"FAQmeister" <FAQmeister@home.comxx> wrote in message
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> "spinach47" <spinach1947@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> 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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