I am using a PC with 1gb of memory and a 2.8 Intel Celeron to rip and burn movies but it seems to be a rather slow process, taking around 2 hours to Rip and Burn with CloneDVD. I think it takes around 45-50 minutes to burn the movie to DVD at 16x. Shouldn't this be faster? Let me know what your average time is. Suggestions for me to speed up my time would be appreciated as well. Thanks, Todd H.
Ripping takes 12-20 minutes depending on the read speed of the drive. Encoding can take 6 -40 minutes or more depending on how much work has to be done. A 4X burn takes 14 minutes so you indeed have a problem. Is the DMA enabled for your burner and hard drive? See BBMayo's illustration below at the link provided. http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/checking DMA.pdf
The speed at which a movie gets ripped,copied and burned to DVDRRw depends a lot on your cpu.Intel celerons are notoriously slow.If you could upgrade to a faster cpu(say a Pentium 4),you would see significant gains in speed. My set-up: cpu-Intel Pentium 4 3 Ghz memory- 1 gig DVD burner- Benq dual layer 8x burn 16x Read Total time to copy a movie from start to finish-35-40 mins.
Yeah, I know the Celeron isn't the best, I got the PC for free so I can't complain. I wonder how hard it is to upgrade your CPU? Is it even worth doing? I checked my DMA settings on my drives and they are setup properly. Thanks!
I would suggest upgrading your chip to an Intel Pentium 4 and get a compatible motherboard(both can be purchased at Newegg,they have the best prices online,and their Fed-Ex express shipping is fassst).For the price of a commercially made Celeron desktop,you could get a blazing fast computer if you assemble it yourself.Its not that hard.I'm a newbie but I built my desktop myself using parts purchased at Newegg.Try it.
If you mean it takes 45-50 minutes from start to finish for everything, that's not too bad depending on how much transcoding has to be accomplished. The guys are right though, a faster setup will yield a little quicker results but it'll still take time. The burn alone even if you get an actual 16X will take nearly 8 minutes. Add another 8-40 minutes for transcoding and you'll see the range of times you can expect. It's generally not a great idea to burn at 16X unless you just want to see what your burner can do. Most limit their burns to half the rated speed of the media or 4X whichever is greater. Some never burn above 4X. As a general rule, the quality of the burn diminshes with higher burn speeds. Also be sure to use high quality media (Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, and Made in Japan labeled Fuji and Sony).
No, it takes me about 2 hours to rip and burn a DVD. I'd like to see that time cut at least in half. So I could purchase a motherboard and processor to replace my current one relatively cheap. Thanks, Todd H.
If you want to find the absolute cheapest hardware around check out www.pricewatch.com. I bought all the parts for my new pc here for about 800 bucks, and going of an ALienware of IBP comp with the same specs I would have paid roughly 3k for it.
