why does it takes nero a couple hours to burn a VCD?

[dannieboiz]

Nero is taking over a very long time to burn a VCD, the encoding process takes over almost 2 hours, I'm buring at 40x. Is there any way to speed things up?

[paulgab]

something is wrong with your procedure. normally nero wont take that long to burn a vcd. i was able to burn with nero a vcd in about 15~20 mins. how about your MPEG-1, is it std VCD specs(white book)? if not then maybe nero is re-encoding your MPEG1 to VCD std format. there is an option that disables nero to check your MPEG. something like "create standard compliant cd" - disable it. but note that with it disabled, you may have some problem playing your vcd.

[Craig Tucker]

Definately sounds like nero is reencoding the mpeg file because it is not within VCD specs. I burn at 24X and for a 60min VCD this takes just over 3 minutes.

Craig

[omega_weapon]

I think your cd writer is not working well, not Nero. I use nero for burning my vcds (790 mb vcd) in less than 10 min. be it complaint or not.

[dannieboiz]

It's buring just fine when I copy a VCD to VCD, but when I download something off the net and burn it, it takes a very long time. I know it's not my burning it's only a few months old with very little use.

[0 kewl]

If it is Mpeg1/2 you are downloading off the net then guys are right - most likely your Nero is re-encoding the file to compliant format as a lot of fileson the web aren't standard VCD/SVCD. I presume you are not trying to burn AVI as VCD...

[dannieboiz]

In fact I thin it is re-encoding, is there any way to speed this up? like using another software or something?

[0 kewl]

Try TMPGEnc to re-encode to compliant VCD/SVCD, the results will be better than with Nero - don't know about speed though, that depends on the speed of your processor and on how far the file actually is from the standard.

[eatin sammiches for lunch]

well if youre looking for SPEED & QUALITY ....CCE is your best bet!!!

[ricardo2]

dannieboiz,Burn your file as a non-standard vcd(xvcd),if it is a mpeg1-file.

[dannieboiz]

well if youre looking for SPEED & QUALITY ....CCE is your best bet!!!

what's CCE??

dannieboiz,Burn your file as a non-standard vcd(xvcd),if it is a mpeg1-file.

thanks I'll try that

[Craig Tucker]

Cinema Craft Encoder, you'll need big pockets though. (for a legit copy)

Craig

[paulgab]

dannieboiz,Burn your file as a non-standard vcd(xvcd),if it is a mpeg1-file.

hey dannie, you can do the xvcd mentioned by ricardo2 by just de-selecting the standard compliant option. no re-encoding will be done.