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    14 hours for a 2 1/2 hour movie?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by SECA, Sep 28, 2007.

  1. SECA

    SECA Notebook Guru

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    I had a 15gb mpg file and using Roxio it took 14 hours to encode and burn a 2 1/2 hour movie to disk.

    Does this sound right?

    I am using a DV9335NR
     
    SECA, Sep 28, 2007
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  2. Eleison

    Eleison Thanatos Eleison

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    The encoding and compression is the kick in the arse. Any kind of compression or transcoding takes a hell of a lot longer than it takes to watch, as I discovered recently transcoding a 700 MB DivX to WMV for use on the Xbox360 Media extender.

    Short answer: Yes, that sounds exactly right.
     
    Eleison, Sep 28, 2007
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  3. vespoli

    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    This is one of the few places where a top-of-the line processor is nice to have.
     
    vespoli, Sep 28, 2007
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    question, why is a 2 1/2 hour movie 15gb in the first place?
     
    nfsuw, Sep 28, 2007
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  5. Eleison

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    @nfsuw:

    HD-DVD would be my guess.
     
    Eleison, Sep 28, 2007
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    HD-DVD wouldn't be in MPEG format.

    Theres a bunch of legitimate reasons a 2.5 hour movie could be 15GB. One of them could be that its a DV file. Those can be huge.

    Anyway, 14 hours is far too long.

    On my MacBook with a Core 2 Duo at 2.16GHz, Windows XP, and Nero, it generally takes about an hour and a half to encode a 2.5 hour MPEG-2 video. Thats a 2 pass VBR encoding too. Under OS X with ffmpegx, it generally takes the same amount of time.

    On my old HP dv5030us with a Turion64 ML-37 (2GHz) and XP MCE 2005 it took about 2 hours for every hour of video encoded.

    I never tried it on my dv6345us because it could never stay stable long enough to do something like that.
     
    SauronMOS, Sep 28, 2007
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    Did you turn on the max performance setting and set at "on" at all times so the screen saver wouldn't activate? Could be that it was also defragmenting which takes a long time to do.
     
    kanehi, Sep 30, 2007
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  8. SECA

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    It was a HD PBS show that I recorded using the HP tv card and Media Center. I am using a bone stock DV9335NR and would rather not load any additional programs on the machine.

    What would be the best way for me to get the Media Center file onto a DVD that would be readable on and dvd player?

    What really bugs the crap out of me is that after burning the DVD none of my home players can read it only my laptop can
     
    SECA, Oct 3, 2007
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    I think the screen saver may have been on. Will give your method a try tonight
     
    SECA, Oct 3, 2007
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  10. Eleison

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    I'm not sure about free solutions, sadly, but I know that ConvertXtoDVD works great for turning media files into watchable DVDs.
     
    Eleison, Oct 3, 2007
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    My rig is a AMD Duron 1.2 GHz that's over 6 years old and I encode faster than that. I use DVD Shrink, DVD Encrypter, Handbrake, and Fair Use Wizard as my ripping/encoding tools. They are all freeware.
     
    fisherdmin, Oct 3, 2007
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    60GB video file with Nero Burning ROM's Vision and done it in 50 min by AMD Althon 64 2.4Ghz
     
    Rottie, Oct 3, 2007
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    OK, so last night I took the 15gb media center file and let Windows Movie Maker have a shot at it. Encoding and burn time on a single layer DVD was just over 8 hours. This still seems like alot of time?

    This is a HD file burnt to disk in wide format.... Could that be the reason it took so long?
     
    SECA, Oct 5, 2007
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