Damn Rebuilder......

[averyisiah]

Ok, I am using rebuilder .82.1 and CCE 2.67 SP and when I am encodeing it takes forever, I have a 7.09Gb DVD rip and am putting it to a 4.7Gb DVD-R and it takes like 12 hours and its set at 2 pass. Then I see people saying 2 hours, 3 hours, so what the hell could the problem be.
I have a 80Gb HD at 7200 Rpm. Is it the harddrive, something else, how can I make this faster, what is the best settings for this.
Thanks, I am really getting frustrated with DVDRB but everyone says it works great on large files and I need the quality because with CloneDVD2 it look like crap....
Thanks for the help.

[canadateck]

I think it's because you are using "Two Pass" This will take longer.

[archaeo]

what's your processor chip?
12 hours for two pass isn't that unusual, but it depends on several things -your processor, your hard drive(s), and your RAM memory. 1Gb of RAM is considered essential, and older processor chips do run slower. If you have two hard drives, one way to speed it up is to select one for 'working' and one for 'output'. Sometimes using only one HD for both creates bottlenecks, especially with slower hard disks. Two pass can sometimes take me 10+ hours, but I'm only running dual PIII chips. I usually set it to process overnight w/ autoshutdown and wake up in the morning ready to burn. good luck, it's worth the wait

[winifreid]

I use the default settings and it takes uo to 6 hours for a 4 hour DVD. The size of the DVD is not as important as the length. But the manin bottleneck is your CPU. I just run mine at night.

[averyisiah]

I have a p3 850 Mhz, 256 Ram, 80Gb (1 hard drive) so this is basically the problem??
Thanks. So should I use one click with 2 pass, or what do you suggest.

[jtommyj]

I'd stay with 2 pass and just bite the bullet on the time until you can get a faster CPU at some point and let it work overnight or while you are at work.

Tom

[averyisiah]

Ok, thanks, but theres nothing I can do to speed it up a little??

[archaeo]

I have a p3 850 Mhz, 256 Ram

that explains it. You could upgrade your RAM, which would help a lot. Using only 256k RAM really slows things down, probably more than a slow CPU.

[Sifaga]

have you tried dvdshrink, its faster

[averyisiah]

ok, I will do that, thnx

[jcook5000]

I thought CCE was more dependant on processor than RAM. I really don't think upgrading your RAM is going to help that much. It shouldn't take you that long for a 2 pass encode. I can do 4 passes in under 5 hours. I wouldn't try DVDShrink. If CloneDVD2 gave you bad results, then Shrink is going to be worse.

Look to upgrade your processor...even if you can get up to 1.5 Ghz...that will decrease your time significantly.

[winifreid]

The time it takes depends on the disk. If it i long and full of action, it will take longer to encode. My times vary from about 3 hours to 7. I wouldn't waste money on more ram; the difference will be slight. You are going to have to upgrade your whole system to get much improvemnt since you are maxed out with that MB with a P3. I would try Shrink since it is free and takes about half the time of RB.

[guns1inger]

Battle of Britain - 126 mins, PAL, movie only (used Shrink to reauthor with no compression), CCE 2.67 2 pass-vbr - 250 minutes end to end.

In your case, I think RAM will make a difference. 256mb is about the minimum you can get away with when running XP Pro. You are probably paging like crazy during an encode. Double your ram and you would probably get 30 - 60 minutes back. A new CPU (and motherboard and faster memory - at least 512 and preferably more) will make a much bigger difference though.

[HatchetMan]

I have a P4 3.0Ghz w/ HT, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB HDD and a 250 HDD, both SATA. With DVD-RB, I use CCE Basic 2.70 (retail, not trial) which only allows 2 pass. It has never taken longer than 3hrs to re-encode an 8GB disc down to only 4.36GB. That's only when I keep every single option and audio file. It normally takes only about 2 hrs when I take just what I want.

[smearbrick1]

I have a P3 3.0Ghz w/ HT, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB HDD and a 250 HDD, both SATA. With DVD-RB, I use CCE Basic 2.70 (retail, not trial) which only allows 2 pass. It has never taken longer than 3hrs to re-encode an 8GB disc down to only 4.36GB. That's only when I keep every single option and audio file. It normally takes only about 2 hrs when I take just what I want.

Actually, you have a P4 3.0Ghz... There's is no PIII at 3.0Ghz... unless you seriously overclocked it.

If you want to upgrade from that 850 P3, you could try a Powerleap upgrade. You could probably upgrade to at least a 1.6 Celeron or something remotely close. You couldn't go P4 with HT or anything like that, but it would be damn faster than what you have currently. Of course, your MB probably maxes out at 1gb of RAM... no big deal though. 1.6ghz and 1gig of RAM would keep you up to date (relatively speaking) for at least a year or so.

[HatchetMan]

I have a P3 3.0Ghz w/ HT, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB HDD and a 250 HDD, both SATA. With DVD-RB, I use CCE Basic 2.70 (retail, not trial) which only allows 2 pass. It has never taken longer than 3hrs to re-encode an 8GB disc down to only 4.36GB. That's only when I keep every single option and audio file. It normally takes only about 2 hrs when I take just what I want.

Actually, you have a P4 3.0Ghz... There's is no PIII at 3.0Ghz... unless you seriously overclocked it.

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