Hi all just signed-up and have a question I have just installed a DVD recorder on my PC which is an AMD Duron 600 Mhz with 383MB of Ram. I have checked that it is on DMA and not PI0 which it is so that should be okay. But, it seems to be taking a long time for DVD Shrink to do it's think (6 hours) is that usual? Or is it becouse my machine is only a P3/600 running Windows XP Pro by the way. Thanks for any help.
Yeah you're running on the bare minimum. May not be enough machine to handle backing up videos and running XP Pro OS. Make sure none of the quality settings are checked. They will slow down even a fast machine quite a bit but you also loose quality without them. Mort
Thanks for the info, I thought or should say new that the machine was not fast enough to work very well but I neded a new CD-Rom and figured for the price that I might as well get the DVD Burner for later use. I'll put up with the slow speed for now. I don't want to loose quality so I'l have to put up with it as I said, however is there anything else I might try to speed it up or is this it. Thanks Hawkshead
Adding more ram may help some. Xp uses most of 256mb to run which doesn't leave much for the burning process. Make sure you don't mulitask while backing up. Shut down everything running in the background that auto starts at bootup. No web browsing also. That may help. Turn off the quality settings except for the movies that need more compression. Jerry
