Clone DVD Speed?

[deezer]

Hi, I'm using Clonedvd & Any DVD on a WinXP 1.8 P4 with 256 megs of ram. From start to finish, burning at 4 speed, each disc has taken roughly
2 hours to back-up. Is this a good speed? I wondered if adding more memory would help and if it does is there a program that tells you exactly what type of memory is in your PC as it's not listed in the manual. Thanks.

[bluntman72]

I hate to tell you, but you aren't burning at 4x. Typically, burning a DVD at 4x (without any compression) should only take about 15 minutes. Check to see if your drives are in PIO mode or using DMA. I had a problem with slow burns (100+ minutes) once, the problem ended up being a bad IDE cable.

[dvdx_925]

Maybe he means transcoding a DVD-9 to DVD-5 and then burning. Is that right?

[deezer]

Yes, I mean transcoding and then burning, although burning for e.g Catch
Me if You Can took 63 minutes. I have DMA enabled but have no idea what it does or means. Is PIO better? Thanks.

[Gazorgan]

A 4x burner should burn a full image in roughly 15 minutes.

'Ripping' (or reading your source) will take anywhere from 5 minutes to over 1 hour (2x DVDRW drive reading a full DVD9).

That gives you 20 minutes to 75 minutes without any transcoding. Transcoding depends on the level of compression needed, but it typically will be a minimum of 10 minutes up to well over an hour.

This means you could take anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 1/2 hours to backup a DVD. This applies to dvd2one as well as DVDShrink or any of the similiar products.