I have my main computer running WindowsME with an AMD XP1600. It takes about 16 minutes to rip a DVD and about 20-25 minutes to transcode with DVD2ONE or DVDShrink.
I have a second computer with XP also running an AMD XP1600. It takes about 18 minutes to rip a DVD,but the transcode is very slow. Taking an hour or more. Is there ant tweak in XP that speed this up? I looked in Control Panel but couldn't find any DMA tweak as you would find in ME.
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Video transcoding virtually depends on CPU horse power (speed) as long as you have enough memory (256MB would be plenty). The speed of today's hard disk does not matter much in this area unless it's configured to run only in the stupid PIO mode (about 3MB/sec).
What is the speed of your WinXP machine ?ktnwin - PATIENCE -
I found what seems like a solution. Using Help I searched for DMA. after going thru a lot menus I came to a menu that provided 3 options.
1) Let Windows Control,2) Best Perfotmance,3) Best appearance.
I selected Best Performance. A transcode I did took 80 minutes,but after this change the same transcode took 33 minutes. The colorful parts of XP's appearance are gone,looks alot like ME now. -
ME is an abomination that should never have been put on the market. I am surprised that XP's eye candy has such a large impact on transcoding. I run mine with a non-standard skin (using XP's theme engine, not a 3-rd party app) and it doesn't impact my speed.
Try this as an experiment. Go back to 'Let Windows Control'. Next, right-click on the icon for DVD Shrink and select properties. Click on the Compatability tab, then check the box marked 'Disable Visual Themes'. Click OK.
Try your transcode again. If the times are still fast, then you can have your cake, and eat it too.Read my blog here.
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