Burning DVD w/ Nero 6 Takes 8 Hours

WhiteSnake · Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

Help! I am new to DVD burning and I am not learning very quickly since each attempt at a new burning experiment is taking 4-8 hours. I am assuming that there is an checkbox or something that I need to click to speed up the burning process, but I can not see what it would be. I am simply burning AVI files which were ripped from a DVD that I downloaded to a new DVD. Legally Obtained By The Way. System Info: 1.8 GHz Celeron 512 MB of RAM 2 Hard Drives on Primary Controller CD-RW and DVD-RW on Secondary Controller Does it make sense to move the hard drive with the Movies on it and the DVD-RW drive to the same controller? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, WhiteSnake

WhiteSnake · Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

I just came across some information on another site about the AVI to DVD process. I guess it is always a time intensive process. I thought that the site that I was downloading the DVD's from was giving them to me in a format that was readily availalbe to be burned to DVD. I guess this is not the case. I thought that DIVX/XVID was a format that could be directly burned to a DVD. I guess I should be happy that Nero 6.6 has the ability to do the conversion and the burn in one step. If any of this still does not make sense, please let me know. I would love to change this to a 15 minute process. Smile

Thanks, WhiteSnake

SirQUK · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject:

Hi WhiteSnake and welcome to our forums. Well done and troubleshooting your issue. AVI to DVD converstions can be time consuming. You could give DivXToDVD a try and see if that is any faster for you. Grab it while its free but their may be the odd bug as it is still early days of development.

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WhiteSnake · Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

Thanks for the quick response guys! Another question that I have is that alot of the DVD's that I have downloaded seem to have some issues on the bottom of the screen. They get all pixelated and turn green along the bottom. The abnormalities come and go throughout the video. Is this caused by a low quality rip or errors in the download process? Also, will these errors show up on the DVD or will the transcoding process clean this up? Thanks Again, WhiteSnake

SirQUK · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:

WhiteSnake · Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

Actually, this is a paid service that I subscribe to and I have express permission from the authors to burn these to DVD for my own use. Believe me.....Life is too short to go to jail for something as stupid as pirating movies. Smile

However, I understand that it does happen and I understand your comment. Thanks Again, WhiteSnake

SirQUK · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject:

Maybe you have a codec issue that is preventing perfect playback. There are plenty of codec packs such as This One about that can help with this issue but please only install what you think you need as too many codecs can sometmes lead to issues or conflicts. A quick search on google for GSpot will bring up the homepage of a nice little piece of software that will tell you with which codec the original file is encoded with Smile

WhiteSnake · Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

They are definitely using the XVID codec and I can view most of them just fine. Only some of the videos have this issue......I think that it may be caused by the ripping process itself. Do you think that putting the hard drive that the movies are on and DVD burner on the same IDE controller will speed things up? I am pretty sure at this point that it is just the transcoding process that is causing my long burn times, but I figure I might as well to try to squeeze out a little extra speed anywhere that I can. Thanks, WhiteSnake

SirQUK · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

I would leave source and output drives on different ide cables myself. It could be a quality setting in nero slowing it down - have you checked to see if there are such settings ( I don't have it installed here ) Alternatively it may be worth trying another DivxToDvd software just to se eif its quicker or not.

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