DVD Shrink and batching?

[noki]

can you batch-encode with 3.0b5 (i know you can't within the prog) .... notice that when it goes into DA and then encode CPU is @100%. if i run 2 or more instances of 3.0b5 will one run as soon as the other is complete? thanks

[noki]

has anyone tried his yet? guess i'll have too

[Jestak]

Greetings,

I have a P4 2.4Ghz with 514M ram, 2 DVD readers and 2 HDs.

I open 2 instances of DVD Shrink and do it all the time shrinking to 2 different directories. The CPU goes to about 80% and it takes about only 5-10% longer than if I shrink one title only.

Both DVD readers are on different IDE controler like both HD.
DVD1 ---> controler1, HD1
DVD2 ---> controler2, HD2

When I shrink, I send the files from one controler to the other one:
DVD1 to HD2 and DVD2 to HD1.

Works perrfectly for me!

Thank you

[noki]

Jestak
thank you for your response. i have but one HDD (with muliple partitions, though) and all my decrypted files are already on it in separate folders. hopefully i can duplicate what you have done on your setup. my cpu is running @100% vs your 80% probably because Shrink can access my files faster on a HDD, while yours are still on disc. thanks again

[Gazorgan]

Nope, can't do it.

I usually work from disk (unless it's damaged). The key to speed in DVDShrink is going from 1 disk to another. When I open files then shrink to the same disk it's horribly slow. If I were doing this twice, it would take forever. I always open files on 1 disk and shrink to another (then ISO to a 3rd). Always try and do IO intensive jobs to different drives (your shoving GB's of data around).

I have found DVDShrink to be more disk intensive than CPU intensive. I can actually burn ISO's when Shrinking (I haven't tested this at a high shrink percentage, like 70%).

I haven't seen any command line options (which you would need to batch encode). I don't see the need, since it's so fast. It takes me jsut as long to rip to HD with DVDDecryptor as it does to Shrink the DVD, so there's no point (deep analysis not withstanding).

[Jestak]

Jestak
thank you for your response. i have but one HDD (with muliple partitions, though) and all my decrypted files are already on it in separate folders. hopefully i can duplicate what you have done on your setup. my cpu is running @100% vs your 80% probably because Shrink can access my files faster on a HDD, while yours are still on disc. thanks again

The bottlenecks can be:
1 - The HDD
2 - The Controler
3 - The CPU

Most of the time, it is the HDD if you use many instances of DVD shrink. I do not know if you already know that, so don't be offended. Having different partitions does not change the fact that all the I/O go through one pipe and the HDD is slower than the pipe. It is why you need 2 HDD.

[noki]

no room in my small Dell desktop just trying to do jobs unattended (ie while sleeping ) guess i will have to write macros to run another instance of Shrink once the first is complete (trigger for running macro would be the dialog box that shrink generates when it is done).
thanks to all responders