Maestro compile takes over 24 hours

[sammo]

Hi
I'm trying to author my first DVD with Maestro, using Doom9 guide. I'm conpiling 3 movies with two audios each movie. The problem is that when I finish creating the menu(simple menu not animated) I click on COMPILE, and maestro starts the compilation, but in 2 hours only created 100MB,I guess it will take over 24 hours to compile the whole DVD. Is that normal?
I'm runing DVD Maestro 2.9 on an athlon xp +1800 under windows XP

thx a lot for any help

[MrSnake]

I don't know a solution to you problem, but I can tell you that it usually takes 20 - 30 minutes to compile an entire DVD (on a fairly decent PC).

Maybe it has something to do with your hard disk's data flow? Try toggling with the DMA settings or smth.

MrSnake

[goldenrod]

no, that's not normal...check your harddrive...it's probably heavily fragmented...

[disturbed1]

Maestro will compile that slow if your encoding in the background (CCE, TMPG etc..) no matter what you set the base priority to.

Try again with no other programs running.

[SLK001]

Compiled a 4,699,990,000 DVD last night with Maestro in less than 8 minutes. (From one physical drive to another, with plenty of space.) And yes, that size is correct (I was pushing the envelope, and didn't realize how "close" to the edge I really was!).

[sammo]

well, I defragmented the HD and set the priority of the process to highest, and then everything is ok, thx a lot for your help

sammo

[MrSnake]

@SLK001

8 minutes? for and entire DVD?
What hardware are you using?
Dual CPU?

MrSnake

[joepic]

@SLK001

8 minutes? for and entire DVD?
What hardware are you using?
Dual CPU?

No more than 8 minutes for a full DVD on single CPU. Most of the time I have source and destination on same drive.

Check out SLK001 or my PROFILE.

[SLK001]

8 minutes? for and entire DVD?
What hardware are you using?
Dual CPU?

My system isn't a screamer - just a 1.8GHz P4. The DVD I did had 120 MBytes of motion menus (6 of them), 4,275,000,000 bytes of video, 190 Mbytes of .AC3 audio, plus FIRST PLAY video and audio. No CLOSED CAPTIONS or SUBTITLES. I have compiled DVDs with CC and SUBTITLES of approximately the same size and the compile does slow down, but only by about 2 or 3 minutes.

I always try to compile from one physical hard disk to another, but joepic doesn't seem to notice a speed difference when he uses the same disk.

I also leave the priority of Maestro to NORMAL.

[disturbed1]

I also leave the priority of Maestro to NORMAL.

The priority of Maestro shouldn't make a difference. I think the poster(sammo) miss took my post.

I was talking about the priority of CCE (or another app) running in the background. Maestro doesn't like to compile while an encoding app is running. Doesn't matter if CCE is set to idle and Maestro above normal, or which ever you choose, it snail trails along.

You might want to check your drives. Compiling 4.3 gigs in 8 minutes averages out to only 10megs a second, which is what one would see using one drive. Unless of course your drives are on the same channel since IDE drives can't read and write at the same time on the same channel, it'll reduce your speed.

My compile times across two drives are around 3 minutes, or closer to 30 mb/s.