Best apps /OS / seetings to burn encode DVD

[no-mbr]

I've been doing some side work - movie editing. And am happy to work with the "windows movie maker" to create WMVs that are encoded and burned into DVD format.

As nearly as I can tell, DVD encoding is a painfully slow process on both XP and Vista. I've used several machines, Roxio 7, Native Vista DVD maker and Sonic DVD and ALL these programs seem to take about 2 hours to encode 1 hour of DVD material.

The machines are +2.0GHz, + 1Gb memory etc ......... Am I doing anything wrong? Is there any way to speed up DVD encoding process (not burning)?

Is there an app the will utilize quad-core processor or AMD64 capabilities to speed up encoding? I'm assuming the video card/ hard disks have nothing to do it?

Is anyone encoding DVDs from wmv or mpeg clips any faster?


Thanks, and a Happy Turkey Day to all.......

[mjc]

When encoding a DVD, you aren't really using the burning program to do it.

What?

OK...

The burning program is actually using a licensed 'encoder' already installed on your machine...most likely whatever the default one that MS uses is. That is why everything is running at about the same speed with all the different apps you've used. The native MS one IS slower than just about anything else on the planet...so what you really need to be looking for is a different encoder...preferably one that is acceptable to whatever your favorite burning app is...

[Rick]

The machines are +2.0GHz, + 1Gb memory etc ......... Am I doing anything wrong? Is there any way to speed up DVD encoding process (not burning)?

Is there an app the will utilize quad-core processor or AMD64 capabilities to speed up encoding? I'm assuming the video card/ hard disks have nothing to do it?..

Your assumption is wrong
Hard drive speed and size have a lot to do with it
The encoder is creating ( writing ) the new Files the whole time it is encoding

Just about every part of your system takes part in the process
CPU speed and Memory first and formost
Intel chips perform the encoding faster than AMD's ( IMHO)
Lots of additional memory helps ( Max it to what your OS will work with)

If you search back through the threads for DVD burning and or converting you will see some people are finding it takes HOURS to encode to DVD
Myself included ( 4 Hours) to convert 2 hours of video to Dvd format and burn

On a new system that time has been cut in half
Intel Q6600 and 4gig of ram along with a new 500gig drive
Captured at the best resolution the video card will allow and then encoded to best quality and dvd format

[Sylvander]

How about trying the FREE DVD Flick (http://beginwithsoftware.com/videoguides/dvd-flick-guide.html)?

It uses an integrated copy of the FREE imgburn (http://www.imgburn.com/) prog to do the burning, and both do a good job.

[no-mbr]

On a new system that time has been cut in half
Intel Q6600 and 4gig of ram along with a new 500gig drive
Captured at the best resolution the video card will allow and then encoded to best quality and dvd formatAnd I doubt your assumption about my assumption - I think your performance increase was due to a faster processor and memory/processor bus hardware. The size of a disk hardly matters and I doubt the video card has much to do with encoding a DVD ready file. Unless there is a some sort of bottle neck created by the file-compression of the starting files. I was starting .wmv formats as well .mpeg and .asf format, they all seem to take the same time -but I hardly tested for exact results.

I was hoping that someone knew of an app that took advantage of 64bit processor architecture. Thanks anyway.

But thanks for the reply, by the

[no-mbr]

Thanks for the reference to "DVD Flick" - I tried it out and it seems to work a little faster - and all the logging describes each phase of the DVD creation.

The text of the help file lets you know - up front - that the DVD file encoding timing is directly proportional to the frame-rate of the recording as well as the composition of the frame and accompanying audio track.

I used to performance monitor in Vista to verify processor load as well disk and memory IO performance. At least on my machine - the entire bottleneck is the processor, with some "faults" and load on memory - but the disk IO is not "strained" at all.

For the record, my "real life" disk sub-systems writes between 900MB and 1GB per minute using raw, multi-size file copy between physical disks as a benchmark.

Now I'm playing with DIVX - and the program will not compress .VOB files into DIVX format because the program can't find an "AC3" filter. As usual, my searching has left me clueless. What AC3 filter do I need?

I've already created, viewed, and copied DVD files on this system using Roxio, Native Vista, Power DVD etc - how can I possibly be missing another DVD related filter? Any more clues?

PS - DIVX compressed a 75MB movie file to 7MB - "mobile format" 128x96....
plays very clearly at reduced frame size.

[Sylvander]

Download and install the ACE Mega CoDecS Pack 6.03 - FREE DOWNLOAD (http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/ACE-Mega-CoDecS-Pack-Download-6778.html),which includes the "AC3Filter ver 1.01a_rc5".

That's what I downloaded, and am now using [huge list of items included].

[jlreich]

Give Super (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html) a try. It's free and can covert just about any file to any other file. All needed CODECS are built in.

It will take a little getting used to but it is an awesome program. ;) :)

The download link can be difficult to find on the site but it is there....