What is TMPGEnc doing to my hard disk?

[zhou_thomas]

After I clicked "Begin output", the harddrive spinned frantically for an hour non-stop. Same thing happened after I clicked "Create ISO image". I know they must be doing the reading-writing thing. But writing larger files, for example when acquiring footage from the tape, doesn't behave like this. Do you know what TMPGEnc is doing to my hard disk? Got a little worried here.

Another question: I got a 4.7GB image file, which exceeds the DVD capacity, can I force the burning without going through DVDshrink and get a successful DVD burned? Thanks

[ZippyP.]

Another question: I got a 4.7GB image file, which exceeds the DVD capacity, can I force the burning without going through DVDshrink and get a successful DVD burned? Thanks

No, you cannot exceed the capacity of the DVD and get a succesful burn.

[thor300]

Tmpgenc DVD Author seem to be very harddisk intensive, my guess is that it operates with very small chunks, instead of reading a decent amount of data, process it and then write it to the VOBs it takes small pieces at a time so it reads and writes constantly. Just a guess, but its a good one i think

[Jah_Rankin]

If u use DVDSHRINK, NERORECODE, NSTANTCOPY, DVDXCOPY, etc u will not have those problems. Why the hell will 1 wait 13 + hrs for a movie to encode with a possibility with all the problems that can arise such as audio sinc, choppy video etc.

[zhou_thomas]

thanks, U 2 I will DVDshrink it.

and thor300, is the same thing happen to you too?

[zhou_thomas]

If u use DVDSHRINK, NERORECODE, NSTANTCOPY, DVDXCOPY, etc u will not have those problems. Why the hell will 1 wait 13 + hrs for a movie to encode with a possibility with all the problems that can arise such as audio sinc, choppy video etc.

but you see, Jah_Rankin, most of the time, I am transfering DV footage to DVDs, seems TMPGEnc is the route with least quality loss, though it takes enormous amout of time[/quote]

[thor300]

For DV i dont use anything else than Cinema Craft Encoder Basic, its superior in both speed and quality, and since DV is already DVD compliant resolution there is no way to go wrong in CCE, except for field order for NTSC DV maybe. Especially if you captured DV to segmented files CCE is much easier and faster to set up. Anoyther thing, you'll be able to watch the DVD on your TV the same day, doesnt happen with tmpgenc even for short homemovies. Better quality in half the time, that cant be bad.

[CaptainVideo]

zhou_thomas what file system do you have? FAT or NTFS?

I use the same program and it works fine for me, no disk thrashing when authoring a DVD folder.

[zhou_thomas]

CaptainVideo, it's NTFS

thor300

i know nothing about CCE, and i suppose there's still the first-step of capturing using CCE. and what you mean is that CCE can handle the encoding (.avi -> .mpeg) much faster than TMPGEnc and with superior quality?

[thor300]

Yes, still need to cap/copy the DV to harddisk. And yes, CCE is much faster, but then most encoders are faster than tmpgenc. For quality, its better, but very hard to spot on high bitrates. Theres lots of guides on how to use CCE in the guides page, but its so easy that guides are not really needed when converting DV to DVD.