3 hrs to burn dvd movie

I was reading through some of these threads but i couldnt see anything about burning dvds for a long time, except one thread but no information in it, im currently burning 40 days and 40 nights, i started at exactly 1:12pm and right now it is 4:05pm, and the movie is still not finished burning, im running windows xp pro, 2.4ghz, 512 mb of ram, i burned about 9 dvd's so far since i got my burner and they've all taken about 1 1/2 hrs + to burn, and information to the cause of this would be greatfly appriciated, thanx again

 

Is your burner in DMA mode? Sounds like its not. If you check your drive settings and they are not DMA enabled this could cause a time problem.

Check this site out to get step by step instructions to do this

http://www.onthegosoft.com/dma_setting_nt.htm

 

its already in dma format

 

Did you check your secondary IDE channel also?

 

yes both of them are under the same mode

 

It shouldn't take that long to burn a dvd. Are you burning from a original DVD disc or a downloaded movie?

 

downloaded movie

 

downloaded movie

 

im using a dvd-r 4.7gb/16x dvd disk, when ever i use nero, i go on to burn disk, first it tells me """your project currently exceeds the capacity of a normal dvd, but still fits onto a dvd-9 disc. you need a dvd-9 media to record your project on. Do you want to have the project quality reduced automatically so that your project will fit into the available space/ if you click no, the project size will be expanded to dvd-9"""" than i click on yes and it tells me """"the project quality was automatically reduced to long play (3382kbps)., and after i click on OK, the space used is 3.43 out of 4.38gb? so i dont understand y i get those pop ups telling me the same thing each time i try to burn a dvd

 

Sometimes, Windows will report that it is in DMA mode when in fact it's PIO. I've had this happen to me. It's best to go through the removal procedure, just to be sure.

You can alway check your burn logs to make sure. (If it's reported in the log as Nero does)

 

By any chance...is your movie saved on an external HD or any other device connected by a USB? If so your USB connection may be causing this to take so long.

 

I think you are transcoding and then burning to your dvd disc. What is the file extension for your downloaded movie? Transcoding an avi movie takes about 3 hours.

 

nope, its all internal

 

whats transcoding thing? how do i check which it is?

 

I believe you have downloaded an avi file. In order to burn to a dvd format, Nero converts or trancode the avi file. Then you can burn onto a dvd and watch it on your stand alone dvd player.

 

so im pretty much stuck with the time consuming dvd burning?

 

unless you want to go out and buy the original from Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. Like I said, it takes me about 3 hours to transcode and I have similar specs as you.

 

alright thank you all for all the help, my other question is and this maybe the wrong place to post this but is there anything possible to be done about copying original dvd's to a blank dvd using nero or anyother software, i read that they have codes or something like that that wont let nero copy by its self, so my question is, is there a software out there to break those codes and allow us to burn the original dvd?

 

Use AnyDVD and CloneDVD from Slysoft. Updated frequently to be able to get past the latest encryptions. There is a 21 day free trial for both. Well worth the money.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/

 

when burning a downloaded video from the net, what video mode is best used, for quick burning, and quality burns? PAL, NTSC, ??? or any others that i've missed, i use nerovision express 3 [dvd-video], im still experiancing the long time burns