The compression was 68.9 percent. And the entire process took exactly 3 hours and 22 minutes, which is slightly longer then average but Troy is a longer movie, but there are no special features on this disc either they are on a separate one. Also I do have DVD Shrink 3.2
I use deep analysis and AEC setting and it takes me 45 mins from start to finish for a main movie backup. sean5775 should be seeing better times.
Dang 68.9% for just the movie ? did u back up the entire disc ? or re-author? for movies that size i never keep menus or subs or any extra audio tracks
I have done a few movies with that much compression. They did take longer, but never more than 90 mins.
Well Using that much compression has a pretty good impact on quality, i prefer on large movies only, Rip the DVD movie only , Compress to a Mpg4 xvid preferd , then Recode this to a DVD-5. A little time consuming but quality is perfect. Sorry for goin off the subject here.
Yes that was for Troy which has no extras on the main disk and I only used the audio track english AC3 5 channel. I know the compression is high but it plays just fine for me. It is a longer movie though 165 minutes, although now that I think of it, shrink recognized it as over 5 hours, thats the first time I ever seen it off by so much, I just verified that and shrink shows it as being 5 hours and 35 minutes. But for other movies that I manage to have the compression at 85% or so, the time is still near the 3 hour mark from start to finish.
I just realized why that is. The movie is on the disc 2 times, once with the english title of troy, and once with the french one of troie. Very stupid, Im going to re-backup and see how it is.
Ok nevermind thats pointless and by reauthoring I wouldnt have saved much compression. I got my previous number wrong it was 56.6% and by reauthoring with movie and one audio track only it would be 57.7% Not exactly a noticable difference. Thats why I choose to keep the menus on this one. I usually only do if it doesnt make a great difference in compression. Either way I can't really tell the difference when playing it back in my DVD player.
Yea, Just take that French ver of the movie and set it too still pictures that will help alot with the compression , Also sean5775 what are your system specs? do u know the $ level of your processor? the higher it is the quicker u can rip and encode stuff for me i can rip an entire dvd in 8 mins or less encode with shrink takes 30 - 45 mins with AEC and deep analysis
No really with this DVD nothing I can do to really get the compression to change on it, the menus are small, theres no extras, only 2 audio tracks. I burnt with only the english and still images instead of FBI warnings. theres nothing else I could do short of removing the 32 MB of menus, which would give me 1 % on compression. System specs P4 3.0 GHZ 1 GB of ram windows XP over 100 GB of hard disc space No Viruses, No Spyware Regularly Defraged. LG GSA-4120B 16X +/- R DL
I have no idea what the cache on the processor is. It is a Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0 Ghz thats about all I know. I bought it June 28, 2004 and It sure wasnt cheap. Thats all I can tell you about it. EDIT I found some specs, apparantly it has a 1MB Cache
hmm with those specs , u should be gettin alot faster speeds.. especially with a 1mb cache, u did disable the video preview i take it? .. well are u usin the AEC ? disable that if u are usin it then see what the speeds are.
If anything dude goto dvdshrinks website and grab ver 3.1 and install that and see if it gives u faster speeds , I still use it more than 3.2
If it is not a hardware problem, then there is some software that is killing you. I will see if can get a big gun to take a look.
Hi, I'd like to try and help with some ideas too .. First off I get about 3,000KB to start and 8,300 KB/sec peak. 17mins 30 secs to backup Star Wars - Phantom Menace a rather large/complex disc nearly 8GB and at 60% compression. I did not delete anything so that I would make it work hard for a test. A lot of other movies take 10 to 15 minutes to get on the hard drive. Then it takes about 5 to 6 mins to write it back out to a 16X +R DVD.. OR 9.5 mins to a -R 8X (using Verbatim) on a Sony DRU-710A drive, ($89 from newegg, lol). My total turn around time is usually 19 mins, 24 mins if I use -R @ 8X. - This is using shrink 3.2 in normal mode. If I use complex analysis then add 10 more minutes roughly. I'm not saying to impress, but to say I think something must really be holding you back and I wonder what it is. I have a 3.2ghz system so it's close in speed to yours for the cpu. But your system could be way different in other areas. Also rroettger could be right. You really could have a virus or trojan running and not know it. The 10% to 60% when you sit there is not normal. Mine is ZERO to 4%! If you don't have these, I would try these free programs. Adaware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ - Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html to start with and run them. Then CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html Also do you have Norton Antivirus or similar? Anyway, my system is 3.2ghz i875 chipset, Asus with 800mhz front side bus. 1GB PC3200 ram at 400mhz with a Western Digital 120GB. Not all the very best, but more than enough to burn fast. By the way. You don't need it that good to decode movies fast. But something must be missing for it to take 90 minutes. There is a bottleneck somewhere. cyberia mentions data transfer rate and that sounds about right. That could come down to your bus speed, ram and hard drive. But still, you mention 1GB ram, plenty of HD space and that sounds really good. The only thing I question is the HD. If your system came packaged, your HD could be really slow no matter what the cost. With a system like yours though it's still hard to imagine 90 minutes. The drive would really have to be slow. But still it's worth checking. To figure this out, I think a good thing would be to seperate tasks. One thing you can do is see how long it takes you to dump a DVD to HD with DVD decrypter.. Just simply pulling the whole thing onto your machine. If it takes 30 minutes, then Houston we have a problem. A great way to take some of the guesswork out is to download a favorite free system test program called SisSandra 2004. It tests your system out for speed. It will find what slow things are on your system and then you will have a better idea. I know it might not solve your problem instantly, but it highlights strengths and weaknesses. I ran it here so you could see results on my 3.2GHZ. I didn't do all the tests but did these: CPU Arithmetic benchmark, 9800 MIPS, MultiMedia 24,585 it/s, Memory bandwidth 4770 MB/s, File system benchmark - Drive Index 29715 kB/s. I couldn't find the 2004 download but here is a link to 2005 version if you want to try and compare. http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/ I'm not looking for your stats to be this high because it only takes so much of a system to burn a DVD.. BUT, I am looking to see if something is abnormally slow. So testing your HD and memory might be a good idea. Would you mind trying this out? Maybe you can try some of these and get back and let us know? Actually I'm dying to know how you take 90 minutes, LOL. Good luck. Also, Direct Sandra download page is http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=&location=downandbuy&langx=en&a= See the bottom of the page where it says download.
oh, another thing. About your 10 to 60% cpu usage. If you go to task manager (ctrl-alt-del), then processes and click on the word CPU twice it will sort in order the programs with most CPU usage to least. The system idle can be ignored. But maybe here you can spot any programs that seem to make up the 10 to 60% you mentioned. If you see one that is higher than zero to 3%, list the image name on the left and we can look it up. If you run all 3 free programs I mentioned they will detect trojans and spyware that might be slowing you down. You may know these programs well.. Sorry if you already did.. but if you don't, they are popular and considered safe to run. I also forgot to mention that you need to press the "check for updates" buttons in Spybot and Adware. This downloads the lists (definitions) of bad programs to check against. Without updating them, they are nearly worthless. It only takes a few seconds to update.
Im gonna try turning of the AEC off and clean up some other things to help it along. But does anyone know where i can get the older versions of DVD Shrink to see if maybe that is the problem. And also the decrypter, the lastest version, is also taking a long time. The shrink is slower but still, Shrink takes about an hour and a half and Decrpter takes about an hour, making the whole time about 2 and a half hours long. I need to be at speeds like you guys are at - 24 minutes and 30 minutes and 45 minute total times is where i need to be at. And willing to try anything at this point
First of all I don't know if that was directed at me but my CPU usage when Im just idle in windows doing nothing is not 60% it is 5% or less at all times. Right now it is fluctuating between 2% and 4% I also do not have any Spyware or Viruses. I use Symantec anti virus and Adaware SE Professional Edition, as well as Spybot just in case Adaware missed something. Im not big on downloading stuff, which is where alot of viruses come from. I have not had any Viruses on this machine since I built it JUNE 2004. I have only had 2 spyware items which were proptly removed, those were back in JULY 2004 I am currently downloading the program you suggested and its taking some time so after I get it and run it, I will post my results.
