When is a PC "too fast"?

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TheRiddler

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I have a few posts out here :rolleyes: bemoaning a few problems I've had, which for the most part have been cured. So, thanks to all. I have now been using DVDStripper with a lot of success. This is a great tool.

The most nagging problem I had was the missing time map/size doesn't match errors with IFOEdit. An old post suggested that this tends to happen on faster PCs. I tried the process on an older, slower PC and sure enough, I have had no problems since. It takes longer, but now I have confidence it will run error-free.

My drawback to this configuration is that I eventually have to port the files to my other PC for burning. This takes an unbeleivable amount of time. I wasn't expecting it to finish in a few minutes, but it's been taking 2-3 hours. I could speed things up by putting a gigabyte nic in the old machine (new one has one) and a gigabyte switch, but I first want to see what other people have experienced.

The new machine is a 2.4 P4 with hyperthreading. It also has the 800 front side bus. Old is a 600 Celeron. Both are running XP Pro SP1. On both boxes I have the apps on one hard drive and the temporary/destination/backup folders on another.

Anyone have similar issues with faster machines? Anyone figure out a way around this? Anyone have any suggestions? I tried rebooting after each disk, but that only worked sporadically.

Out of curiosity, anyone have any ideas how speed could affect this? Are the calls to IfoEdit coming too quickly?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.
 
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addie

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I had a similar intermittent issue with the 0.2.0 version on a 2.6C which seemed to disappear with 0.3.0 but I haven't run the latter too many times because the output of either doesn't work on one of my players no matter which cell I remove it hangs.

I've tried to take advantage of the giga lan for similar reasons by unplugging both PC's from the router and using a direct cable. It works fast, but making it work busts the router setup. I think I needs two NIC's in each for both configurations to coexist or thats my theory :p
 
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TheRiddler

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tim254 - Same here. Seemed to happen more on certain movied than others. I tried CPU Killer and it has been working like a champ. No problems so far on the faster box w CPU Killer. Thanks a bunch!

addie - I think what most people do is plug the switch into the router and the computers into the switch. No need for multiple NICs. So when going from computer to computer it uses the switch and not the router, but you still have the router for internet.

viper_1069 - I'm sure it would :D
 
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addie

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TheRiddler said:
addie - I think what most people do is plug the switch into the router and the computers into the switch. No need for multiple NICs. So when going from computer to computer it uses the switch and not the router, but you still have the router for internet.
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I think thats the best solution for more than 2 PC's, but the downside is it breaks the plug and play features of the router and complicates port forwarding to individual local IP's.

When a single PC is used the switch then becomes redundant whilst still taking up space on the desktop and requiring power.

I only need one more card to try it should be more secure aswell since the gig connection can be unplugged or disabled in windows. I'm not sure if windows is going to like the configuration though :confused:, but its worth a punt for uber transfer rates only limited by the harddrives read and write speed :p
 
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