Making DVD video taking very long time. For advice.

[seymoria]

Dear friends.

My 04 GB mpeg files take about 1.5 hours to encode / burn as DVD video through Nero 7 software. I have Dell Optiplex (P4 3.2 GHz 1GB RAM).

Any idea how I can reduce this time? I have scores of GBs to burn to DVD video (for playback on my Sony player / TV).

Thanks for help / advice.

Best Regards,
Amer

[guns1inger]

If your files are already DVD compliant then the process should take 10 - 15 minutes. (See What is DVD, top left corner, for compliance parameters, then use G-spot to compare you video to these). Assuming they are compliant, 1.5 hours would indicate that Nero is re-encoding your files, reducing the quality and wasting your time. There is, somewhere, a box you can tick to tell Nero not to encode compliant files, however years watching posts here about the issue would indicate that in many versions of Nero, this simply does not work. You are better off authoring with a tool that cannot encode video at all. GUIForDVDAuthor is free, for example.

If you are looking for a faster encoder than Nero because your source is avi files, try ConvertXtoDVD, DVD Flick or FAVC.

[frogno2]

I think maybe you mpeg file Nero can't fast pass it. Ohter reason maybe you used the 2X burn you DVD-vicdo disc.

[seymoria]

Hi.

Thanks very much for your response and valuable advice.

I will check my files for compliance and post the results. Actually these are mpeg files (DVD quality) saved off from my TV tuner card (my tv recordings).

The tv card saves recordings as mpegs on the hard drive and I intend to burn them to DVD in the form of DVD Video and not plain mpegs because I would like to have them played back on my DVD player and watch on my TV screen.

Thanks and best regards,
Amer

[guns1inger]

Open them in g-spot and compare the format to What is DVD (top left corner). Assuming they are compliant (Australian SD Digital Broadcasts are), you can author with GUIForDVDAuthor and burn with Imgburn. Keep Nero out of the equation and you should have more luck.