dvd shrink backup time

[giraffe]

Hi, I've just made a back up of SWAT using dvd shrink in total the whole process took 5hr 59min to complete, authoring to HD ect.

This seems a long time for a 1hr 50m film enc menu ect..

My system is pent3 600Mhz 256ram

any opinions 8)

[Richard_G]

My system is pent3 600Mhz 256ram

any opinions 8)

Buy a new computer. As you've discovered, you can use Shrink on a slow system, but it takes ages. I can do a complete re-author and shrink to main menu only in under an hour, even using deep analysis.

[Cobra]

Your best answer would ideally come form another PIII owner. My PC (AMD XP-M2500 o/c @ 2.34GHz) will do it in an hour and a half, including ripping and burning time, using deep analysis. MHz for MHz (and I know this isn't a fair comparison) my PC is four times quicker than your one, so quadruple time = six hours.

It seems that your encoding speed is average but as I say, wait and see what other people who know more than I do have to say.

Cobra

[iooi]

What else is it doing as well...
XP needs 256 ram and if thats all you've got it aint going to help (you only say 128 in comp specs) My other Pc a duron 750 takes approx 2 hours to do a film but its not running anything else, bare xp install 512 ram NO background programs.

[cd090580]

On a PII 300 Mhz, dvdshrink takes a little more than realtime to make one pass.

I backup LOTR The Two Towers with a deep analysis in +/- 6h30 minutes.

A normal movie takes +/- 1h50 - 2h00 to backup.

[giraffe]

Thanxs guys i'll do some more tweeking to try and speed things up but it's prob down to the system i've got..

just a thought my settings are set to PIO ONLY on all my primary /secondary ide channels, when they are set to DMA nero and other burning software do not respond and freeze up

I just noticed on http://www.mrbass.org/dvdnewbie/ that the setting should be set to DMA on all channels , why does this not work on my system??

[cd090580]

Yes, you'll get a better performance with all your drive set in DMA.

Try downloading you latest drivers for your motherboard/chipset.