Quick question--

Author: WESHALLPRESERVE
Date: 29-Dec-2006, 1:47 PM

Author: WESHALLPRESERVE
Time: 29-Dec-2006 1:47 PM
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I'm using Nero, and have just started burning a DVD...it had 4.5 Gigs of information--is the 6 hr. estimate from the program reliable, or will it probobly go down?

Author: Jaiman Tuckuh
Time: 29-Dec-2006 10:57 PM
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If it's re-encoding video, before it burns, then that seems like a reasonable time frame.

If it's a straight burn of data, or a prepared Video_TS or image, then something's horribly wrong.

That's more than 6 times slower than a 1X burn of data, if I recall.

You could check your hardware & driver situation with Nero Tools. Could be the ASPI layer (if I recall there are other things than ASPI for external drives). Could be the controller driver. Who knows what.

CdFreaks forum is the place to go for techical answers. (Use their broken search function before posting).

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Author: bad_karma24
Time: 30-Dec-2006 2:31 AM
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Like Jaiman Tuckuh said, for straight burning it's far too long. Re-encoding a video (like say an xVid) would take about that depending on your computer speed and length of the file.

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Author: WESHALLPRESERVE
Time: 30-Dec-2006 2:26 PM
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Yes--It was the encoding that got me....I've burned 2 discs successfully---2 copies of each, which have all worked-----So, if I wanted a way to decrease the time that it takes to encode, would I need more ram? (I currently have 512--which I know is barely cutting it-)

Author: Laserman
Time: 8-Jan-2007 3:59 AM
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Faster processor, more ram and transcode from one drive to another rather than on the same drive - all of these can speed things up.

Encoding takes a long time, some encodes can take 20hours on a 2GB Ram Dual Core 3GHz machine, it all depends on the codec, number of passes etc. But more RAM (RAM is cheap and 512MB can definately be improved on) and a faster CPU never hurts.