I built a rig last Christmas for my sister Asus Mobo 2 gigs micron ddr ram p4 3.0 processor, plextor burner Blah , Blah Blah On that box she can decode and burn in about 20 minutes start to finish with DVD shrink and Nero. I finally upgraded myself to A asus p5nd2-sli, plextor 18x burner, 1 gig ballistic micron memory, WD 250 gig SATA hd, Nvidia 128 meg video..Etc., However it takes about 49-5x minutes to just to decode and 4 minutes to burn. Could another gig of physical memory really cut that time in half? I checked all posts and settings to try and cut time down to no avail? Any help would be appreciated Thanks in advance...EddieT
Has more to do with your frontside bus than your RAM.... ALSO depends on the bitrate between the movies you transcoded on hers and yours... You'll have to do the same movie the same way (what apps are running, shutdown, etc) on both machines to truly compare times... Even then, even simple maintenance routines (how often you defrag, spysweep, clean registry, etc) could alter times.
My FSB is 800 I just built this box 2 days ago and I am using the default settings in shrink, Where can you change the bitrate??? No need to defrag or sweep, I verified my FSB yesterday and it is at 800. My processor is 3.2 hers is 3 My Mobo is newer. Only difference is the physical memory.
The bitrate is what the studio encoded the movie as. Nothing you can do about that. Transcoders/encoders lower this bitrate as they compress. Basically, what I am saying is that you can't really do a direct time comparison without a control group: transcoding the same movie with the same options (movie only, max sharp, etc) selected (controlled file size) to the same target size selected in Shrink (controlled output size) on the same burner (controlled rip rate). More RAM, in the case of one GB to 2GB, will help encoding minutely, but will be more noticeable if you are actually multitasking. EDIT: I have had commercial movies encoded with bitrates from 3.5 Mbps to over 7Mbps!!! Hopefully, an "expert" on this will chime in to explain this better than me!
One other thing I just thought of is Video memory Could her 256 meg nvidia process encoding twice as fast as my 128? I know one response was to do a side by side but I'm talking on average The other box burns twice as fast.
What type of drives are you and her using to rip the films? A most burners will be factory locked to a 2X read speed whereas most ROMs have no such restriction. Plextor burners can be unlocked to rip at full speed by holding the eject button for three seconds with the drive empty. When the LED blinks green three times the tray will eject and drive will rip at full speed for that read session only.
(bold)I am using a plextor 760A 18x she is using the previous 16x model matbe 716A? And thank you very much for the unlock I'll try it tonight...
Nephilim, Thank you again VERY MUCH for that simple fix Now instaed of 50 minutes to encode times cut to 20-22 min. and 11 to recopy allready burned discs, and in other progs like clone DVD 8 minutes to encode.
