DVDsanta 4

[thegecko]

Got this but jesus christ it makes my pc come to a halt, A64 venice @ 2.5ghz, 2gb of corsair ram and 2x160gb samsung spinpoints in raid 0

Whats wrong with it :\

[mr_coffee]

Runs great on mine, only takes up 51 megs of ram, and I have a 3.4 intel, 1 gig of ddr, 160 gig harddrive, Geforce 6800 GT (256 megs). Takes like only an hour to encode and burn an .avi. Check whats going on in the background and how much processing power its taking for you to encode/burn somthing.

[thegecko]

It takes 100% for some reason, it does the job fast enough but makes everything else unuseable.

I just tryd diko and thats fine, just as fast and doesnt halt the system.

Shame because dvdsanta is so easy to use

[mr_coffee]

yeah it is, i love it, diko doens't work well for me. I suggest you try another version of dvdsanta, or perhaps you should uninstall dvdsanta then do a defrag, then reinstall it, but i think getting a different version might be the problem. Still doesn't make sense why it would take up 100% of an amd 2.4 processor, its only a 32bit program so the 64bit processor isn't going to help that much, but thats f'ed up. goodluck.

[CBC]

Try The Film Machine, SVCD2DVD, or AVI2DVD. Better flexability, much better results. I gave up on DVDSanta long ago, after their supports total lack of communicating about problems with their app.

[mr_coffee]

Thanks CBC, your right THe Film Machine is freaking awesome and works great.

[thegecko]

Does film machine support subtitles and menues ?

[mr_coffee]

Yes it does....you need an encoder like procoder to work with the film machine though, thats what I use and it works great.

[CBC]

either Canopus ProCorderr or CinemaCraft Encoder work well with TFM.
CCE 2.67 can be used with the Roba OPV option (one pass video) in TFM for very good results and a pretty short processing time, depending on your machines specs.

[thegecko]

Sounds good, are you sure it supports menues aswell ?

[CBC]

Negative on the menus. For that look at SVCD2DVD

[hhhhbk]

i run version 3.45 on an athlon xp2500 mobile

windows task manager says cpu usage is 100%
but stangely aida 32 says its 0%

i assume its 100% as cpu temp rises as dvd santa is running

i thought all video encoders purposely use all the free cpu processing ability so that they encode faster

i can still use the pc for internet browsing while its running

the program is pretty quick so just run it while you go to eat / sleep / out
so that it doesnt interfere with gaming or what ever else you want to use the pc for