Extremely long burning times.

[ibzomie]

I admit from the start that I am working with a woefully underpowered computer and Nero 6. But til I can save the money for a new one, I'm stuck. Having said that, I have successfully burned quite a number of DVDs, and these have usually taken from 45 minutes to an hour and a half or so. I can live with that.

But I have one file that I have twice tried to burn, and ended up aborting the process both times. The first time I stopped it after about five hours. The second time I started the process and went to bed. Seven and a half hours later it was still going, and the progress bar showed it to be probably about 80% done. I aborted it because I needed the computer for something else.

If I just leave it alone for another two or three hours, will it go ahead and finish successfully maybe?

Is this normal for some files? Does it maybe indicate that something is wrong with this particular file and it would be a problem to burn this file even under optimal conditions? Or is it simply because I'm underpowered, although I have burned other files in lots less time as I said above?

Or maybe the problem is that I'm using 4.22 gb of the 4.38 availabe?[/i]

[ROF]

Since your profile is blank and there is no information in your post about your computer specs or the DVD burner I can only say that no one can possibly offer advice to you.

Please fill in your profile info. and add additional useful information to your thread here.

[redwudz]

What are your computer specs? It helps considerably to fill out your computer profile. I don't even know what OS you are using.

But when you say 'burning' do you mean the actual process or do you mean Nero is reencoding your video? (Which it does all too often.)

What burner, what media, what speed, etc?

The only time the actual burning would take longer than a hour even with 4X is when you have a slow hard drive, such as a USB drive to feed the file to the burner.

Try a different burner program.

[ROF]

I've seen PIO burns going longer than an hour. Make sure your bus is operating in DMA mode.

[ibzomie]

Oops. Sorry. My computer profile is filled in now. Like I said before, I am well aware that I am way underpowered at this time, but I have made a number of good DVDs with the present system, so this attempt kind of threw me. I am working overtime at the post office to save for a new system. For now I'll have to make do as well as I can.

redwudz, now that you mention it, Nero might be reeencoding. What would indicate that this is indeed happening? Nero sometimes says that it is "transcoding". Is this the same as reencoding?

As for different burning programs, any recommendations?

[guns1inger]

More details about the process would help.

Do you encode your video to mpeg2 before going into Nero, or do you load avi file into Nero ?
Do you use Nero to author and burn, or just burn ?

[parallax1]

You're not that underpowered. Not enough that it would take anywhere near the time you are talking about. It does sound as though your burner could be running in PIO mode. However, if you are burning files that you created it could be (as guns1inger suggested) that Nero is encoding the files and then burning. If so, you need to get another program to do the encoding and another program to burn the encoded files. More info is needed from you.

[ibzomie]

gunslinger, the file was encoded from avi to mpg2 using TMPGEnc3.0 Xpress. Then I authored the file with Nero before trying to burn it with Nero.

parallax, if I understand you correctly, I'm already doing as you suggest, using one program to encode and a separate program to burn. What is PIO mode?

Could this be a problem with the file itself?

[handyguy]

Lots of posts on this, your drive can go into PIO mode & that makes everything slow. CHeck your drive properties & see what mode its using.

[ibzomie]

also, if it matters, it's a file that was downloaded from a newsgroup in rar files and put back together.

[redwudz]

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers>Properties. All channels should show DMA, not PIO.