Burning DVD Question

[Madboy]

Im new to burning DVD's, about 2 month ago i bought a new DVD Writer which came with Nero, i tried burning my first DVD with NeroVisionExpress, went through the usual procedures (menus, visuals blah blah etc), but when it went to write it said:

Transcoding Menus

Estimated Time Left: 12hours!

I went to a computer shop and asked about good DVD-R's and i tried a Verbatim one, it cut down significantly to 4hours.

But even then thats a long time to burn a DVD, thats half a DVD, actually the film is only 480mb.

So why does it take so long to burn, and is it just me, or does anyone else find it takes to long, maybe my PC is setup wrong?

[thegreatone]

Its taken me just over 30mins to burn a back-up copy of Battle Royale on my PC, also using nero, it saved the image to my PC (which took about 30mins) then started the burn process at a decent rate (not sure how fast).
So, about an hour or so later i have a full back-up copy of my disc.

Do you have nero setup to allow the max the drive can handle ?
I'm not sure how you do this but ithink its just before you click the final "Burn" button, its there as an option, you should set it to the highest possible and test run that.

[dglienna]

Without knowing anything about your sytem, it's hard to say for sure, but for a half a gig, that seems like a long time. Maybe you are rendering (changing the format) which would increase the time that it takes to write it.

I've made a straight copy in less than half an hour using a 1gig machine.

[Madboy]

Here are some specs, hope they are relevant:

Windows XP Pro SP2
Pentium III 800Mhz
80Gb IDE Maxter
128.0Mb Ram
Cibox 48x CD-R/32x DVD-R

[dglienna]

I'd have to say that 128mb of ram is what's slowing you down. That's something that you can add for not very much money. I would install at least 512mb into your system. It's probably swapping everthing out to the hard drive, as it doesn't have enough memory to process information.

[Cander]

No one is asking the obvious question. What speed is the writer and what speed is the blank discs?

[NoteMe]

update your ASPI driveres to the newest verison. Those that comes with Nero is the slowest drivers I have ever seen.


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[Madboy]

update your ATAPI driveres to the newest verison. Those that comes with Nero is the slowest drivers I have ever seen.


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Where from?

Also i have tried using a Maxwell 8x DVD-R

[Dreamlax]

Transcoding

That's the keyword. Trans-anything means to go from one to another, meaning it is rewriting the data a different way, implying that Nero is manipulating the data before it is burning it! So if you are burning an AVI file, it will need to transcode it into MPG (which can be very CPU intensive). Even if you aren't burning an AVI, transcoding indicates it is not a native DVD video format.

[NoteMe]

You can download them here:
http://www.burnatonce.com/index.htm?downloads

If you get more problems then here is a help for it:
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/aspi.htm


PS: The burner called burnatonce used to be able to burn DVDs too. And it really good simple and fast. You can try it if it still supports DVDs.


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[Madboy]

Transcoding

That's the keyword. Trans-anything means to go from one to another, meaning it is rewriting the data a different way, implying that Nero is manipulating the data before it is burning it! So if you are burning an AVI file, it will need to transcode it into MPG (which can be very CPU intensive). Even if you aren't burning an AVI, transcoding indicates it is not a native DVD video format.

So what are you saying, i need to convert it to MPG - otherwise nero will do it thus taking ages?

[NoteMe]

If you want to be able to watch it in your DVD player (not on your PC), you have to convert it to MPEG. If that is what you are trying to do, then yes, then that is why it takes so much time. If you are just trying to burn a data DVD with an avi file, then that is not why.


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[Cander]

So what are you saying, i need to convert it to MPG - otherwise nero will do it thus taking ages?

Anything else is going to take approximatly the same amount of time to re-encode to MPEG-2.

So wether Nero does it or something like TMPGENC does it, it is still gonig to take awhile on an 800 Mhz machine.

I can rip and burn a full DVD in a total of 20-25 minutes, but that is on AMD 64 3200+, 1 gig of ram, and a 16x DVD-burner with 16x discs.

[NoteMe]

I can do it in 25-30 minutes on a 1900+ with my hacked 4x DVD burner..

[Cander]

I can do it in 25-30 minutes on a 1900+ with my hacked 4x DVD burner..

Ahh, but does that include riping?

[NoteMe]

Yeah, I found out that Burner was much faster then 4x. It was only a firmware upgrade needed to get it to do 12x...

[Cander]

Well I am still faster!

[Madboy]

So it needs to be MPEG, just one more question, whats the difference between MPG and MPEG? Its like that with JPG and JPEG, im confuzzled

Thanks

[Cander]

No difference.

[Madboy]

No difference.

So why do they make it confusing by putting a E in the word?

[DaveBo]

Dreamlax

Please don't shout.
It's bad enough that I have to turn off pictures to keep my sanity and to avoid my colleagues thinking I'm playing video games each time I read these forums.

[Cander]

So why do they make it confusing by putting a E in the word?

Whats confusing about it?

MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group. Most file extensions use 3 characters back from the DOS days where you could only have 8.3 filenames, so the E was dropped for filenames.

[WilliamRobinson]

Appoligies if this has been said but if its .avi / mpg or any other video format ur burning to dvd format the program has to transcode it once transcoding is done ur only looking at about 20 mins max burning it at 4 x

However if this is a dvd disc with something else on it such as documents or any other format, other than video then there is something else wrong here

again soz if i have missed anything above
regards William