DVD Authoring - is this normal?

[pygar]

Is it normal for a 4.7gig movie to take 12-24 hours to author (single M2V & AC3 streams) using TMPGenc DVD Author on 1.8 ghz PC? How can I speed things up?

[andyp1]

If you have about 25 track with 25 chapters each then it may.
I have XP2200 and a movie only takes around 10 mins
a movie with a title screen and 10 chapters takes about 30mins.

Are you using your pc for other tasks while you are authoring.

The most I do is possibly a bit of surfing otherwise I leave it alone til its finished.

[kyemeng]

In my case with my Intel 1.7 processor, it takes about half an hour to 1 hour for a movie with 20 to 30 chapters, using elementary streams only.

[dafreak]

wow, that's taking way too long. I normally author a 5-6 track dvd, using tda, in about 20-30 minutes.

You might want to check if your hd's are running in PIO mode. If they are, change them to dma.

-go into device manager
-expand the ide controller tree
-right click on primary ide and click properties
-go to the advanced tab
-change to dma mode if set to pio
-repeat to secondary ide controller.

[Roderz]

NO.

[northcat_8]

That is forever.

In addition to DMA mode, some other issues that maybe affecting your speed:

HD - size, speed, file system, fragmentation.

~ if you are reading and writing to the same HD then your speed will be slower, if that HD is also fairly fragmented that will slow you more. I am assuming you are in the NTFS file system.

~ also, if you have some large motion menus they will slow your encode time considerably.

~ if you use motion thumbnails, that will also slow you down some as well. For example, if you have a 10 thumbnail menu, it has to put the video for that chapter point inside that little window. This also slows you down.

I am also not familiar if TDA even has this option necessarily, since I always run my video through TMPGEnc Plus and change the bitrate there but if you are having TDA change the bitrate as it encodes, that will take you more time.

Are your .m2v DVD size? 720x480 NTSC? or 720x576 PAL?

[dafreak]

I am also not familiar if TDA even has this option necessarily, since I always run my video through TMPGEnc Plus and change the bitrate there but if you are having TDA change the bitrate as it encodes, that will take you more time.

I'm pretty sure tda does not do any type of bitrate changes or encoding whatsoever.

[northcat_8]

I'm pretty sure tda does not do any type of bitrate changes or encoding whatsoever.

I just checked the program, it doesn't.