Hello all, please forgive my n00bness, ive been burning vcds and dvds with nero 6, but i used an nec drive on a dell pc and it burned to a vcd in under 25 mins, the dvd ended up a coaster but that was me cancelling it. i couldnt remember the drive model number, but when i upgraded my pioneer 105 to a nec nd4550, the speed when i use nero is the same 1hour 25mins to encode and write vcd and 5 hours 15 mins to do a dvd. the write speed on the dvd drive itself is grand, so i figured this was a nero problem. what am i doing wrong? nero takes far too long, but ive tried other software and its longer. Please help.
@guyverone It looks like you have some DMA issues and or some/few of your drivers (burners and IDE controllers/channels) has gone into Off/PIO Mode. To solve this problem follow the below guide and hopefully you'll be able to bring/enable all your DMA back On. ((To enable DMA back ON by "uninstalling" its driver “for Win XP users” by alkohol)) Here are some helpful pictures for references. A) on "DESKTOP" right click on "MY COMPUTER," left click on "PROPERTIES" B) left click on "HARDWARE," left click on "DEVICE MANAGER" C) left click on + sign of IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers D) double left click on either “Primary” or “Secondary IDE Channel” E) left click on "DRIVER," left click on "UNINSTALL" You will see a "Warning: you are about to uninstall this device from your system," just click "OK," now "SHUTDOWN" or "Restart" your computer F) once you restarted your computer, Windows should automatically detect your DVD burner’s drive and re-install it for you. That's it...easy as smoking!! **NOTE: do these steps only if the above process failed to bring DMA back on, or you can do exactly like the above steps, except this time you "Uninstall" it from the “DVD/CD-ROM Drives” ****at Device Manager**** (A) left click on + sign of DVD/CD-ROM Drives (B) double left click on your DVD burner or your DVD-ROM drive (C) click on "DRIVER," "UNINSTALL," "OK" and then "Shutdown" or "Restart" your computer. That's it... easy as smoking!!! Enjoyed it..!!
@alkohol Cheers for the help, although, both primary and secondary were already on dma, dma2 on primary and dma5 on secondary. do i still need to uninstall? or is there something else causing the lack of speed? I tried uninstalling and reinstalling both ide and dvdrom/rw drivers. still coming in at an hour odds for transcoding :'(
Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling nero, and the drivers again and still the transcoding speed is very high. would it be the dvd drive instead? or my pc? my stats are: celeron 1.2 250gb hdd 768mb ram geforce fx200 256mb xp pro sp2 nec nd4550 matshita sr8585 dvdrom im wreckin my brain tryin to figure out someway to speed this up (without buying the dell i used the dvdrw on, as it does nothing i need it to. it was the dell dimension350) any and all help appreciated
With only a Celeron 1.2 processor, you're going to have a tough time getting the job done fast. Are you multi-tasking? Do you have a lot of unnecessary applications/programs and or other programs (anti-virus, etc.) running while you're "transcoding ,encoding or converting" and burning? By the way, what are you trying to do specifically? Did you mean "converting" from AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG, MPEG2 or VCD to DVD? I've use NeroVision Express in the past to "convert" AVI and DivX into DVD files and it takes roughly 1 hour just for the "converting" process, then 8 - 14 minutes (depends on what speeds I burned) for the burning process using Nero Burning Rom.
