Ripping with DVDShrink 3.2 - slow encoding with Intel 2.8g?

[midimidi]

Hi all,

Been using DVD Shrink 3.2 for quite a while now. I have two machines - AMD (2700+) vs Intel (2.8ghz), both 1gig ram. The Intel box has a number of HDs. The AMD only one. All are Seagate 7200.7's.

Enough specs - here's the issue. I loaded up the same DVD image on both computers' HDs and used Daemon Tools for mounting the image. I put two large entries on "Still Pictures" removed their audio, and re-ripped to another image on the same partition. Both were setup identically.

The Intel box Analyzes about twice as fast as the AMD box (appears to be mainly CPU - this made sense to me). For the Encoding however, the AMD was nearly twice as fast, if not more, than the Intel (very little CPU used here).

Clearly analyzing is based on CPU usage, but what about the Encode? Why was the Intel box so much slower for this particular process?


The ONLY other main difference between the two is that the Intel box has three HDs totalling six partitions and the AMD is only one with two partitions. In both cases though, the original image and the newly made image were on the same partition. So what's up here?

[Capmaster]

Something may be slowing down your hard disks on the Intel machine.

Check in Device Manager and see if your IDE controller channels are both running in Ultra DMA mode. If they're running in PIO mode, that's probably the problem.

Another might be outdated motherboard drivers for the PCI bus, which feeds the IDE controllers. Make sure drivers are the latest.

Flash the MB BIOS if you don't have the latest and greatest.

And since this is most likely a computer hardware or OS issue, I'm moving this to the Computer forum.

[midimidi]

Thanks Capmaster.

Motherboard is an IC7-max3. All drives are set to UltraDMA in Device manager. Unfortunately I cna't load Intel's App Accelerator because it requires drives in RAID.

I'll check and see if Abit has any new drivers and BIOS since I installed.

I'm ripping a different image now and its the same speed for the encoding...~4-5,000 KB/s (dropping as low as 2,100!) compared to well over 10,000 KB/s on the AMD machine. Ridiculous.

[ViRaL1]

Same DVD drive?

[midimidi]

Same DVD drive?

This has nothing to do with the DVD drive. This is a rip from a HD image.

[dxj40c]

Have you got the advanced analysis (for better quality compression) box checked? If so, it takes twice as long to prepare the files for encoding on 3.2 vs. 3.1.

[midimidi]

hmmm - good point. But both are the same version, and both are setup identically - yes with Deep Analysis and Sharp (Default).

Again, on the Intel machine, the Analysis is much faster, and much slower with the Encoding. Oppoiste with the AMD box. Just trying to figure this thing out...