Taking loooong time to backup movie....

[HOG2K]

Hello all:

I'm very very new to burning "DVDs" Actually this will be my 1st attempt with DVDs. Plenty of CD burns.

I'm using DVDReasy, clicked on convert and away she went. Very smooth takeoff. Everything is currently going as I suppose it should be, only it's at the point of making the movie.mpv.

Here is the question. It says it will take 5 ( five ) hours to do this.

I'm using my Plex 712a, I have a P4 2.4 1024 ram. 160 gig hd. Have never had a problem with anything before, well if I did I just replaced it

Now, is this normal for things to take this long?

I was reading on DVDReasy website where he said, click it and sit back for a couple hours. I understand couple of hours to mean around 2, give or take some.

Five hours seems long. It took 1 1/2 hours to make the 1st part which I forgot what it was called. I'll assume you know what i'm talking about.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for any help or advice....

Mike

[ChickenMan]

Yep 5hr is a bit long for a normal 1 1/2hr movie. If the first stage took 1 1/2hr (and thats just ripping the movie off the DVD to your HD and audio extraction, then you either have a badly scratched/damaged dvd or your reader is having problems. Does it have DMA turned on ? Check in Device Manager.

[Laz]

Always took me about 5 hrs on average too for a 2 pass CCE encode on my 1800+ xp system for a 1 1/2 hour film, would have thought a 2.4 g P4 would have been a bit quicker too myself. Do you turn everything off running in the background first like A/V etc as that will make a difference?

[dvdreasy]

Hi,

I think that the first stage you are talking about (that took 1 1/2 hr) is the creation of the VAF file (first thing that CCE do) then 5 hours to create the MPV file (movie).

anyway, with a P4 2.4 GH and 1024 RAM I think 5 hours plus 1 1/2 hr its a bit too long for a 90 minutes movie.

Are you sure you have the system correctly configure ? (specialy the latest motherboard drivers and bios)

And yes, other activities in background can slow down the CCE process.

Regards,
DVDREasy

[Laz]

Hehe, just built me a new Vid-edit system using an MSI K7n2 Delta + 2500+ barton overclocked to 3200+ and it now takes me only 2 hours I find after doing my first CCE 2 pass encode on it today. Much better!

[HOG2K]

Hello all, and thanks to all of you who replied. I changed one thing, and that was my page file. It was on C: drive and was self adjusting. So, I moved it to the fastest drive, which at this time is D: drive. I made it to be 1200mb, so as to not adjust itself anymore. That only takes time and slows things down.

I have good and bad news,

GOOD NEWS

The 1st file dvdreasy instructed to be made was VOB file. Which is from DVD Decrypter. The 1st one took 1 1/2 hrs to make. After changeing the page file, it now only takes 40 minutes Major improvement.

Next file that took 5 hours was movie.vaf. Ofcourse I stopped it after 1 hour, I just wanted to see if it would drop down in time, but it didn't so I stopped it.
After page file fix, it now only takes 1 hr 40 minutes! Another major improvement.

BAD NEWS

My second go round which was flying thru beautifully 1st file 40 min, then lots of stuff started happening, then came the movie.vaf file. Only 1 hr 40 minutes. BUT movie.vaf file only made it to 1 hr 39 min 58 seconds.
2 seconds until finish of that file, it rebooted my system


So, now I'm confused as to why it did that. I'm going to make another attempt tomorrow. With my fingers and eyes crossed I'm sure it will work.

I'll keep you posted.

Once again, many many thanks to all who offered suggestions.

ChickenMan - zero scratches on brand new dvd movie, ultra DMA turned on with plex and it is not an option with windows xp. Atleast not for DVD drives.
And I do not remember it being in bios. I'll check on that later.

Laz - nothing was running during process

dvdreasy - yes everything up to date that needs to be. I only update when things need to be. If it affects what I'm doing, I'll upgrade. If upgrades are for some silly things, well no need to upgrade. Newest is not always the best. But, I know what you were getting at..

Thanks

Mike

[MysticE]

Have you tried another DVD?

[HOG2K]

Well, after many more attempts and many more frustrations.. I gave up on dvdreasy.

Now I use DVD Decrypter and Intervideo DvdCopy 2, and with those 2 programs everything is now perfect. I did have a bad install the 1st time I installed dvdcopy 2. But, after re-install everything is A-OK!

Thanks for the reply and suggestion... Great forum here and lots of help...

Thanks again...