SONY ARCHITECT ...preparing file..17hrs + remaining..!?????

[hayabusa]

hey guys!!

Once again i have an other issue.....

I have a 1200megahertz with 256 DDR of ram....

I am using sony dvd architect to burn 2 avi to dvd ''TOTAL VIDEO TIME 2 hrs.) well 1hr50 mins.

The program says preparing & the estimated time keep on going up...
it was stop at nearly 17 hrs remaining...........
this is CRAZY is something wrong??

Im letting the pc free of all program runnign when doing it& still 17 hrs left ''even after fresh reboot nothing else runs ''

[NIRVANAX5X]

Well I assume you have divx or xvids you are burning to dvd. DVDarch is converting the video which it has to do since those formats can only be played on certain standalone dvd players. Converting 2 hours of divx to mpeg2 will take a few hours much longer with that rig.

[Myrdhinn]

Maybe your *cough cough* "bittorrent" *cough* prog came with other hidden stuff. j/k .. well not really, I consider someone claiming help with 500+ dollar US progs and running on hw not even capable of running w2k/xp very well can't be serious they run legit yet can't afford to upgrade. You'd get just as long encoding with Nero on that setup. Upgrade is the only thing you can do to fix the slow process.

[jtoolman2000]

Yes that is about right. Your machine is simply to weak to convert downloaded Divx not worth converting to DVD anyway.
Instead of having spent hundreds of $$$ on architect, you should have upgraded to a machine with enough guts to do video work. P$ about 2400 and up with at leat 1/2 gig of ram, fast, large 7200 rpm and maybe XP would help with the long times

[DeeKnow]

i'm a little bit overwhelmed with people telling everyone to upgrade their CPU... sure, faster is better, but getting more horsepower is not always necessary

I have burned dozens of home movies to VCD and 3 to DVDs so far... all I have is a 650 MHz PIII with 384MB SDRAM, running Win2000. It's not blinding fast, but it does everything I need, and my DVD's look absolutely fantastic..

so if you have the dough, sure go ahead get a 2 x 3 GHz duallie setup.... but dont kid yourself into being told that anything like that is necessary for video work

[edDV]

CPU investment vs time investment, take your choice.

[Richard_G]

It all depends what you are trying to do. If you have captured video at VCD or DVD resolution and it is already in compliant mpeg, horsepower isn't necessary. Even converting to mpeg won't take too long if you are only asking the machine to encode and not resize as well. Burning can be done on a very low spec machine, data transfer rate is the only thing that is important.

It seems the OP is trying to take video that is already compressed to Divx or Xvid and convert it to DVD compliant mpeg-2. If the frame size is something strange, which it often is, the machine is having to resize as well. This does need a huge amount of processing power so an upgrade is definitely required.

If you plan your work properly, you would capture the video in the correct frame size for your final output, VCD resolution if you intend making a VCD, DVD resolutions if you intend making DVD. Encoding times will then be quite quick. However, if you are trying to convert downloaded crap that has already been compressed and is probably in some oddball resolution, it will take forever on any machine.

[hexxisoft]

with Sony DVD Architect, I find it's better to convert first. That encoder takes forever to encode anything. I render out of my vegas timeline to a demuxed mpeg and ac3 file, in almost real time, then drop it in the dvd architect. Using DVD Arch to render DV takes a while, so doing XviD would probably take forever.

[edDV]

I edit DV format on my PIII 750 MHz Vaio Notebook and burn DVD just fine.

MPeg2 encoding can accomplished overnight while I sleep

[jtoolman2000]

Well,,, he was making the point, complaining that it seemed to be taking too long,,,, Since he did not voice any other complains, the only reccomendation to decrease the time it is currently taking him is to upgraded to a more powerfull unit. Oh yeah and by the way, I'll take speed any day. I can produce three times more work and yes it still looks "absolutely fantastic"