HELP - Avi to dvd keeps slowing down

[Jeff2020]

I have recently had to reformat my pc. I have then tried to convert an avi to dvd using a variety of programs. (Cucusoft, TMPGenc and more). Each time I try the conversion speed starts off high and slowly reduces. I have no idea what would cause this or how to fix it. Any help would be much appreciated. Before the foramt my machine would convert a film in 6 -7 hrs now it can sometimes be upwards of 100 hrs. Are there any setting I've change or problems i could have caused?

My compueter info is:

AMD athlon xp 2200+
512 ram
160 hard drive

 

[ChickenMan]

Try converting an AVI you had converted before the re-format. Does that convert ok? The AVI could have problems, have you checked it with DivFix and DivxRepair ?

 

[Jeff2020]

I have tried same AVIs i've converted before formatting and have checked them with divfix. There appear to be no problems wth the AVI's themselves. I have tried a wide variety of AVIs in differnet converters nothing seems to be able to hold its speed.

 

[celtic_druid]

How is your memory usage? Possible that something somewhere along the chain has a memory leak. You could try mencoder which only uses internal decoders/encoders, see if it is effected.

 

[Jeff2020]

Is there a program or way to help find where the memory leak is occurring?

 

[celtic_druid]

"The memory leak"? I said possible memory leak. So you checked your memory usage and there is definatly a memory leak?

 

[Jeff2020]

I'm not 100% sure it is a memory leak, how is the best way to find out if it is a leak?

 

[Duracell]

how is the best way to find out if it is a leak?

hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, open the TaskManager, click the process tab, last column is memory usage;
name us the process which eats nearly all your memory;

Greetings from
Duracell

 

[Jeff2020]

The biggest memory usage comes from exploere.exe which is about 20 092 and ybrowser.exe which is about 36 000. This is when i am not converting.

Alos if i am converting i not have the internet on. Everything else is between 0 and 10 000. Would a memory optimiser help to sort the problem?

 

[Duracell]

Alos if i am converting i not have the internet on. Everything else is between 0 and 10 000.

And what about the converting programm? It should use much more RAM, otherwise it will nearly never finish.
Also have a look at the CPU usage. Is there a resource eater?

Would a memory optimiser help to sort the problem?

useless stuff in this times (when RAM is cheaper than software);
512 MB should suffer for your machine, it did the job before;

 

[Jeff2020]

My avi converter runs at 45 808 and the cpu runs at between 88 - 93.

 

[Duracell]

My avi converter runs at 45 808

me thinks this is too less for a 512 MB machine; check if you can assign more RAM in the settings of your converting software;

 

[Jeff2020]

I don't appear to be able to alter the converter settings. If it isn't a memory problem is there anything else it can be as it seems to effect converters and not anything else

 

[Jeff2020]

When reformatting my machine what setting might have changed that would effect the way avi to dvd converters work?

 

[Duracell]

sorry, i'm at the end with my wisdom about;

 

[ChickenMan]

Assuming there has been no hardware change from before the format and after, then I see no reason to suspect any hardware.

As for software, although we re-install the same software we had been using before the format, we tend never to do it identical to before. All encoders tend to be CPU hogs and memory eaters so if the encode is slowing down with time, then I would suggest there is somehting running in the back ground using up these resources. What anyivirus are you running? Have you used a program like SpyBot to clear the spy ware out?

 

[Jeff2020]

In the background i have spy sweeper and antivir both of these we on both were on before the format. The only one that wasn't is outpost firewall 2.0. Would this slow things down?

 

[ChickenMan]

I'd shut them all down, physically disconect from the internet and try again.