do you burn dvds and encode or do other tasks at same time?

[charvelzeppelin]

Lately since encoding has been taking a long time, I just decided to burn DVDs at the same time. I'm not sure if this is bad or not but the burning doesn't seem to slow down at all even if my cpu usage is almost 100% and I never noticed any problems with the DVDs yet.

Has anyone ever noticed any thing wrong with doing this at the same time? Also, would this effect the encoding result?

[andyp1]

When you're encoding your cpu usage should be at 100% . Doing other tasks at the same time certainly wouldn't affect your encoding other than make it take longer.

[Ironballs]

Well I burn discs, encode all the time. I even used to do quite a bit of surfing until I got a laptop and networked all my gear together. So provided you have a reasonble pc set-up, carry on.

[Shudder]

I've started backing off what I do while burning DVDs. 4x is a lot of data to pull off the harddrive and stream through the IDE channels, basically to the point where browsing slows down and does quite a bit of its own paging (WHY must you use 130 megs of ram AND 130 swap???) and all I hear is the hard drive screaming to keep up. It makes my DVD burn at about 20 minutes instead of 15 and sometimes there's a few straight minutes where I can't even use the browser

Time to defragment more or such.

As far as encoding goes, nothing else I do on the PC would take up more than 10% CPU so I do whatever.

[lafjax]

I have found that using CloneDVD I can do pretty much anything else I want to. I browse the net, use email, print documents. Ollie says he wrote CloneDVD to allow multithreading for other apps. I don't do anything really cpu intensive like edit photographs but I can pull photographs off my card to the hard drive. I have a 2.0 pentium 4 with 1 gb ram, XP home.

[energy80s]

No, I never do anything else on the PC while it is burning CD's or DVD's as I won't take the risk on a dodgy burn. Encoding is a different matter though.

[Roderz]

@ Shudder
I regulary have 3+ ie windows open while encoding and burning
Tip for your prob move your temp internet files to a different drive.

[Shudder]

Can't stand IE, and while browsing I usually have about 12 tabs open (me and the gf..). I'd rather just sit back for 10 minutes rather than use IE

I may split up my swap though and put half on one drive half on the other.

[indolikaa]

Having more than one computer makes this a non-issue.

[Zetti]

Having more than one computer makes this a non-issue.

Yes, but having two "VCR" computers would break up everyone

I have two computers, but DVD burner, semi-pro capture cards, semi pro audio cards, RAID, 2 BIG HD's, etc, etc; are ONLY at the "VCR" computer, the other one has just "regular" stuff like Internet surfing, an unique 20 GB HD, it's an old PIII, etc, etc...
Its value is maybe no more than 10% of the "VCR" computer :P

Zetti