How Powerful a CPU to make a DVD?

[Ensign]

My friend want to make DVD's

But he is worried that his HP computer with a 333MhZ Celeron CPU can't do the job.

Since my computer has the same CPU (but more memory) I have run it in to this problem, but, with making VCD. I have a 32X burner, but, if I go above 4X the results are very poor.

Can the same happen burning a DVD?

Or are there other factors that come into play?

[spiderman2k1]

To trancode a DVD with DVD2ONE DVDshrink or cloneDVD it will work but it will take a long time.. Maybe little wore then real time.

If your doing a capture. It all comes down to how you capture. I have a Dazzle 2 and they say to have a P2 400 to capture MPEG 2.

TO authorize a DVD my P2 400 can do it but it's very slow.

You really have to give more info on what you want to do.

[Ensign]

You really have to give more info on what you want to do.

He wants to take his 8mm camcorder tape(s) and put them on a DVD.

He has the (parallel port) Dazzle to import/edit the video(s) on his computer.

And I think it can render the output in the MPEG-2 DVD format.

Or if not, he also has NERO 6 which I think can also convert files to MPEG-2 DVD fomat.

So, what it comes down to is. Can his CPU handle the load of conversion and burning a DVD?

[MOVIEGEEK]

No,time for a new PC.
Most video and burning software requires:
Win98SE or newer
256MB RAM
550MHz CPU
7200RPM HDD
BTW...4x CD writing=600KB/s,4x DVD writing=5550KB/s

[lenti_75]

NO way to use parallel port to import video. either a capture card or a camcorder with passthrough and firewire card in pc

anyway, time for a new one, I have a laptop, 800Mhz and is a pain in teh butt to encode even to mpeg1, sooo slow.

what he needs....minimum:

1.6 or faster cpu
512Mb ram
80Gb or more hdd
capture card or firewire with a passthrough camcorder

[pfh]

A separate hard drive is ideal I might add.

[Bjs]

Say what ???

A celeron 333 , no way .

Not to dump on your friend here or you , but there dose come a time when people need to consider an upgrade , really .

I bought a p3 800 in ebay , complete system for $330 + $40 for tansit a year or so ago , and upgrade the motherboard + cpu + ram for a little under $340.00 , this is where you need to be if your dealing with dvd .

The p3 800 on its own is capable , but if you want to bring in good quality captures , then the minimum specs for cpu is 2000mhz (actual clock cycle) , athlon xp2400 cpu meets this just .

There are a number of pci capture cards available at good prices now , but I do highly recomend any that virtualdub can capture from .

The p3 800 was tested with fly3000 in raw mode , and you need about 45 gig for 2 hours . Then an asus v6600 vivo , which has its own propriety codec for compression , but vitualdub is able to use it , and the results here were pretty good , a lttle under 3.8 gig was consumed in capturing the 2 hours .

Yes , in full pal resolution (720x576)

And as for those who say you need oodles of memory , nah to you lot , the system only had 128mb's , so there ...

A p3 800 can handle transcoding and burning the dvd project , but will take time to transcode the files , and SLOW the burner right down , or else .

As for transcoding input video to dvd quality mpeg2 :

Has anyone here ever considered frameserving from virtualdub to bbmpeg ???

Bbmpeg outputs HIGH quality dvd mpeg2 files , but if you feed it rubbish , then rubbish you get .

A note : If you consider my frameserving idea , only frame serve (I think) 50,000 frames at a time , or the mpegs will blow past the 2 gig limit .

This I hope answers your question ...

As for creating the dvd project , go grab pgcedit now , its free , and I have a guide that explains how to use it to develope compilation dvds , and how to hook up menus and titles .

Prior to burning any dvd project , you should always play it back first to check for problems .