Just bought an NEC 3500 writer.Tried using NEROEm suite to make a backup copy and it wouldn't do any of my discs as they were "copy-protected".Downloaded "dvdshrink" and "dvdripper".Used "ripper" and the contents were too big, so tried "shrink" and although it worked it took around 2 1/2 hours for the disk.The writer is meant to be quite fast.What am I doing wrong??Any advice would be appreciated as I am new to this.
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This is almost 100% dependent on your CPU speed and 0% to do with your writer. Shrink needs to compress the 6-8gig of movie files from the original down to 4.3gig to fit to a dvdr, that simply takes time. Burning time is dependant on the speed rateing of the DVDR blanks your using.johnmac said:
My PC is a Dell Dimension,2.66GHz,Pentium 4.The burning time took over 2 hours.I did optimise the settings for the best quality.Not sure if this made it longer.I just didn't think it would take that long.It's actually longer than the film.I thought I' read somewhere before that a disc could be backed up in around 10 minutes or so.I am using datawrite Grey 8 X 4.7GB DVD-R discs.
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to simply burn the dvd itself would take about that long. then you have to add in the transcoding time, which makes up the bulk the time you spend backing up a dvd (unless no compression is needed). enabling higher quality settings will definitely increase the amount of time spent transcoding the dvd.
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I use dvd shrink 3.1. my dvd disks are Veratim 4x dvd-r 4.7gb. And my prosessor speed is 2.8GHz. And it takes my pc 1 hour 3 mins to shrink & burn an origonal dvd to a blank dvd-r. my dvd burnner is a nec 1300a 4x burn speed.and dvd srink uses nero 6 to burn dvd-r. so i cant see why it take some of you over 2 hours just to burn a dvd-r disk.
I use dvd shrink 3.1. my dvd disks are Veratim 4x dvd-r 4.7gb. And my prosessor speed is 2.8GHz. And it takes my pc 1 hour 3 mins to shrink & burn an origonal dvd to a blank dvd-r. my dvd burnner is a nec 1300a 4x burn speed.and dvd srink uses nero 6 to burn dvd-r. so i cant see why it take some of you over 2 hours just to burn a dvd-r disk.