help on tmpenc dvd author

[natty]

why do it takes ages to make menus using tmpgenc dvd author I have 2 movies which I put to-gether with dvdshrink now I am making menus with tmpgenc dvd author but its now only on 59% and has taken so far 1 Hour 26 mins isnt there a faster way as + using dvdshrink and dvd author its taken ages to do my 2 movies is there another quicker program to do this make menus for movies

[steveryan]

Are you using motion menu's and is TDA converting the audio to AC3? Even on my shitbag pc it only takes 15 minutes to author a basic dvd without motion menu's and not converting to AC3.

[natty]

what do motion menu's mean i just place both movies into dvd author and click create menu and i picked the one on left saying blue

[yoda313]

what do motion menu's mean i just place both movies into dvd author and click create menu and i picked the one on left saying blue

Hi,



That's where the motion menu is under the "create menu" page on tda. You may have it selected by mistake. Doing motion menus make the selected video move in the chapter preview window. It takes a long time to process that.

Kevin

[natty]

hi my motion menu tab is same as yours

[nathanaa]

I can't remember what the setting is called, but when you loaded the DVD Video did you let TDA copy it to its own file? It says something like "a DVD drive is much slower than a Hard Drive, performance will improve if you let me copy it to <x> location on the HDD".

I've found that everything goes much faster that way, rather than trying to run it straight off of the DVD. Plus, how large is the TDA output file? If it is 7 or 8 gigs it will take awhile.

[natty]

yes it copies to hd and makes a folder called volume 1 which includes VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders there is only 2 movies which have been done through dvdshrink and only totals 4.3gb but it took nearly 2 hours last time Im on xp have a 2.200mhz pc 716mb ram on xp pro

[steveryan]

Out of interest how long did it take DVD Shrink to shrink your original DVD's?

[natty]

I think dvdshrink took about 20mins to shrink the 2 movies in re-author mode

[hudsonf]

Have you checked to see what's running in the background. You may have something running which is using to much system resources. You could also check to see if your hard drives are running in dma or pio mode. I use TDA a lot and it has never taken that long.

[jimmalenko]

Just in case you missed my reply in your other thread ...



It takes me about 20-25 minutes, every time. Motion menus take a little longer. Then again, I do have a P4 3.0 w/ 1GB RAM

I'd suggest that there's something dodgy with either your install or your PC. Maybe your hard drive needs defragmenting ... maybe you should disable all unneeded services / CPU hogs ... depending on how your HDDs are set up, have your source on one HDD and output to the other ... maybe a fresh install of XP will speed everything up ...