Re: Burning DVD's - total time
From: James Edelen [MVP] (jj4_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/18/04
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:34:05 -0400
No, if you are doing encoding, it could take a while. What happens is, the
software needs to take the video from the current format and change it into
another format more suitable for DVDs. This can take some time (for
perspective, to convert a 20 minute video from DVR-MS to WMV takes
approximately 30 minutes on my P4-2.66ghz machine). DVR-MS -> DVD should be
a litter faster than that, but if you are writing a DVD with a hour of
content, it is quite reasonable to have it take 45 minutes.
The "8x" part of your DVD burner just referrs to how fast the disk spins and
how fast it can write to the disk. This will not affect transcoding or
multiplexing at all (those are regulated by mainly the processor).
-- James Edelen Microsoft MVP - SharePoint Portal Server Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Media Center Microsoft Associate Expert Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone "african grey parrot" <deriv1@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:c8e0d5c6.0406180625.2b76c431@posting.google.com... > Thanks - it's an 8x drive using 8x DVD+R media. That's what surprises > me a little. I see it going through all the steps, including > "multiplexing" and all the encoding, but it seems to take a while. > > I wonder if the software doesn't support 8x? Is that possible? I > can't seem to find out the speed setting implied by "auto". > > "James Edelen [MVP]" <jj4@mvps.org> wrote in message > news:<u$OJ#gPVEHA.2544@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>... >> If the video is already encoded and arranged into DVD format, depending >> on >> your DVD writer speed it could take between 10 minutes (8X) to an hour >> (1x) >> to write the DVD. If you have to do any form of transcoding, audio >> encoding, remuxing, etc, it will take longer. 45 minutes seems >> reasonable >> to me for a Video DVD if you have a 4x (or lower) burner. >> >> -- >> James Edelen >> Microsoft MVP - SharePoint Portal Server >> Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Media Center >> Microsoft Associate Expert >> Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone >> "african grey parrot" <deriv1@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:c8e0d5c6.0406172128.49566620@posting.google.com... >> > When I burn 4 commercial-free (edited) recorded episodes of Seinfeld >> > to a DVD, from MPEG-2 format after conversion from DVR-MS, it takes >> > 40-45 minutes. Is this normal? The speed is set to "auto" so I have >> > no idea what that means. There is seemingly no way to change it. >> > >> > I am using Arcsoft Showbiz for the DVR-MS/MPEG2 conversion and the DVD >> > burn. >> > >> > Having said that, the quality is great. I have only had a few >> > problems with audio/video sync and only one unreadable disc so far; >> > usually it's pretty flawless.
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