dvd writer question

hi all..
got a dvd burner pioneer 107D recently. been copying movies with dvdshrink.

takes about 30min to encode and 15min to write at 4x.
is there a way to improve speed??

how bout buying a $30 dvd drive to read while that write.. improve time a
lot??

btw.. is the 107D any good?? i find it very good so far, burnt about 20 disc
and not one error yet luckily.
but some forum said its no good..

what is 'quit' anyway?? read it on some post in some forum..


thanks in advance.

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 05:29:00 GMT, "cupcake"
wrote:

hi all..
got a dvd burner pioneer 107D recently. been copying movies with dvdshrink.

takes about 30min to encode and 15min to write at 4x.
is there a way to improve speed??

Yes. Using 8x media would shave some time off the burn phase. The
107D is an 8x DVD burner, and is capable of using 8x -R and +R media.

As the encode time is the biggest time chunk for you, you might
benefit from giving your encoder a bit more CPU power. You could do
that by upgrading your CPU. The encoding phase involves compression,
which is very CPU intensive. A faster CPU will help with that.

If you're running anything in the background (antivirus, download
manager, etc), you may consider disabling and unloading those while
you're doing it. It won't help a lot, but every little bit helps.

I don't recall if DVDshrink has a realtime preview feature or not, but
if you don't need to watch the movie as it encodes, don't. It will
eat up a lot of CPU cycles that would otherwise be used for encoding.


how bout buying a $30 dvd drive to read while that write.. improve time a
lot??

Not really. The movie would still need to be ripped from the DVD to
the hard drive to remove the encryption and region coding. You only
save yourself the trouble of swapping discs. Even if you get a
DVD-ROM drive that has a rated read speed higher than your DVD burner,
most drives (burners and ROM drives) rip at about 3x to 6x depending
on the drive/disc/program combination. You likely only save the
second or two it takes you to swap discs.


btw.. is the 107D any good?? i find it very good so far, burnt about 20 disc
and not one error yet luckily.
but some forum said its no good..

It has its strengths and weaknesses. With the later firmwares, the
drive is among the better burners currently available, but some of the
earlier firmwares were a little flakey. I would guess some of those
bad reviews are either fairly old, or they're from people who were
using the older firmwares.


what is 'quit' anyway?? read it on some post in some forum..

It means "to resign from". A dictionary would probably give you
better definition. It's sometimes used as the label for the exit
function in some programs.


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MCheu

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 05:29:00 GMT, "cupcake"
wrote:

hi all..
got a dvd burner pioneer 107D recently. been copying movies with dvdshrink.

takes about 30min to encode and 15min to write at 4x.
is there a way to improve speed??

You might be able to save time by using DVD2One since everyone always
says its faster than DVD shrink.

If you include copy time with that it might or might not significantly
shorten the time. Generally it depends on how much material is on the
DVD your are ripping. DVD decryptor will take anywhere from 8-15 min
generally just copying the stuff to your HD and then using DVD2one
generally takes 10-15 min to squeeze it down.


how bout buying a $30 dvd drive to read while that write.. improve time a
lot??

Nope It cant read , shrink and write at the same time.

btw.. is the 107D any good?? i find it very good so far, burnt about 20 disc
and not one error yet luckily.
but some forum said its no good..

The Pioneer is rated well like the NEC and Plextor etc.

Test DVD Decryptor or some other ripper which someone says may be much
faster if there is one and DVD2one and then try 8x media or 4x media
that can be burned at 8x obviously that would reduce the time of
burning. Overall that may save say 7-10 min burning time and maybe
0-10 min ripping and shrinking or maybe not.