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Davidwed
10-14-2003, 08:42 PM
I have gotten tired of buying hard drives. I have 280gb of movies, but I hate to delete them and my CD burned ones won't run on DVD. So I bought a DVD burner and installed it yesterday. Shit is it slow. One smallish movie and encoding is only at 50% after 55 minutes. Not even started to burn. I'm using Nero Express. I called TDK and he heard that I was one of those horrible people illegally stealing movies and hung up on me. Anybody on this forum have any good ideas. Oh I'm running a 1.8ghz p4 with 256 mb and nero is using 98% of my resources. :(
james_bond_rulez
10-14-2003, 08:51 PM
dvd burning technology is still relatively new so you'll just have to live with it

i remember my first cd-rw burner is so shitty 2X2X16X, 80 percent of cds i burn failed.

but then as time progressed, price of cdrw dropped and they make better and better cdrws.

now i am happy

just stick with the cdrw until they make better dvdrws

BTW that was stupid of you to phone. I knew what their reaction would be lol

stupid noobs, but it's ok you'll learn :lol:
Davidwed
10-14-2003, 09:05 PM
Sorry about the double post. thought it did't go' Hey Canadian are you from Newfoundland?
Davidwed
10-14-2003, 09:09 PM
But this burner is brand new and supposedly on of the better ones per a magazine review and at $135 preety cheap
james_bond_rulez
10-14-2003, 09:09 PM
no, bc van :lol:
james_bond_rulez
10-14-2003, 09:11 PM
ok if you want us to help you, you gotta describe the whole thing is detail

like your computer specs, your burner model, what movie you are burning etc

otherwise no one will reply ;)
3RA1N1AC
10-14-2003, 10:23 PM
Originally posted by Davidwed@14 October 2003 - 12:42
One smallish movie and encoding is only at 50% after 55 minutes. Not even started to burn.
ok, i think you're complaining about the wrong thing. the BURNER encodes ZILCH. if it's encoding too slow for your tastes, get a new PC.

the burner has nothing to do with encoding speed. thank you, come again!
Evil Gemini
10-15-2003, 02:04 AM
I was one of those horrible people illegally stealing movies and hung up on me.


WTF man!!!! they are there to offer you support for their products not to bad mouth anyone. NO MATTER WHAT!!!

If you remember the guys name that answered the phone you should ring them up again and complain about him.

Maybe they should go back into training on how to deal with customers.

BTW look for a better movie to encode your movies.

I read somewhere to burn a full 4.7gb dvd disk should take around 15 minutes. I dont know if its true or not but if it is, i might get one.
3RA1N1AC
10-15-2003, 02:16 AM
Originally posted by neattairoski@14 October 2003 - 18:04
I read somewhere to burn a full 4.7gb dvd disk should take around 15 minutes. I dont know if its true or not but if it is, i might get one.
15 minutes if you use a 4X burner and 4X discs. 30 minutes for 2X, and about an hour for 1X. even if you're cheap and only buy 1X discs, burning 4.37gb per hour is still not terrible.
Virtualbody1234
10-15-2003, 02:20 AM
What is the original file type. AVI, MPG or what? and what is it's size in bytes?
lynx
10-15-2003, 10:56 AM
It is the encoding that takes the time, and I've heard that Nero isn't all that good at it.
Look here (http://www.doom9.org) for some conversion tips.
smellmycomputer
10-15-2003, 05:30 PM
i haven't tryed nero, but i can say that pinnicle sucks

i've yet to find a decent divx to dvd converter, maybe one day soon it'll become available