Is this a memory issue or a processor issue?

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  1. Jasper44

    Jasper44 Regular member

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    When I am converting a dvd to mp4 with PQ DVD it takes longer than it is supposed to. It is supposed fast forward through the movie while converting it but mine goes in slow motion(takes about 4 hours for a 2 hour movie). I didn't think anything of it until I went to my friends house to show him how to do it and his computer did a 2 hour movie in 30 mins. I have 512mb of memory and a 1.5ghz processor. Is the slowdown because of my memory, processor, or a combination of both.
     
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    wat are the exzat specs of ur machine ie what processor what type of mem, what dvd r-w wat hdd ect
     
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    what free resources do you have before burning?
     
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    What do you mean by free resources? All i'm doing is converting a dvd to mp4, not burning just to clarify.
     
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    when you do ctrl-alt-del, a menu comes up on the screen, select performance tab & look at right hand bottom corner where it tells you total ram, paged ram & available ram. what is the available ram #??
     
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    If you are encoding, then it is CPU intensive, not memory intensive.
     
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    [bold]Physical Memory (K)[/bold]
    Total: 491056
    Available: 279912
    System Cache: 106648

    [bold]Kernel Memory (K)[/bold]
    Total: 57836
    Paged: 34276
    Nonpaged: 23560

    Does that mean my processor?
     
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    when was the last time the hd was defragged as your available ram is good.
     
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    A very long time ago. I just ran the analysis and it says I should defragment it and it gave me these numbers.

    Volume Fragmentation
    Total fragmentation=15%
    File fragmentation=31%

    So my slow encoding speeds has to do with my level of fragmentation?
     
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    defrag the drive than see how long it takes to encode a disk
     
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    I defraged it then went to pq dvd and converted the Best of Mike Myers which is 1 hour and 23 mins. It still took 2 1/2 hours to convert it. AHHH stupid computer. It is supposed to convert in fast forward...not slow motion!!
     
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