Pioneer DVD Buring times

Kered5 wrote on 10/12/2002, 10:15 AM

I just bought a Pioneer DVD A04 burner and DVD Complete as recommended in previous forum threads. It is sitting in an Athlon Xp1600 system with 256M Memory running Windows XP Pro.
I burned my first DVD onto a Pioneer DVD-RW media...It is a 1 hour movie generated using the main concept codec in VV3. It worked fine...but it seems to take an awful long time to make the DVD.
The first DVD on the pioneer DVD-RW took around 5 HOURS...I figured this was due to the fact that the image file was being generated along with the burning process...but then I put in a Memorex DVD-R media and burned another copy thinking this would be relatively quick...this time it took 6 HOURS to burn !
Is there a setting in DVD Complete that I need to change to get reasonable burning times...or is 5/6 hours what I should expect? I kinda figured that 1x burning of a 1 hour movie would take...well 1 hour!
Help please !!!!

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Clyde200 wrote on 10/12/2002, 11:07 AM

Seems like a long time to me. I have discovered that if you put your MPEGs AND your DVD Complete folders on the same drive everything slows to a crawl. Keeping the files on seperate drives I typically can burn a one hour DVD in about two hours (one hour for DVD Complete to process and one hour to burn).

riredale wrote on 10/12/2002, 12:05 PM

The actual burn rate with DVD-RW media is "1x," which means about 1.3MB/second. That works out to about 1 hour for a DVD with about 4GB of information (it has nothing to do with the length of the movie). Certain DVD-R blanks are recognized by the drive as capable of being burned at twice that rate, so the job should be done in about 30 minutes. I am not familiar with the authoring program you are using, so I can't comment on rendering times and such. But I do know that if you take a 4GB VIDEO_TS folder and tell Nero to burn it, the drive takes about as long as indicated above.

stepfour wrote on 10/12/2002, 5:12 PM

You only have to "build" the DVD once. That, and the first burn, does take a bit of time. If you are burning more than one of the same build, be sure not to select the build icon a second time. Select the burn icon instead, and the process should be pretty quick.

DVD Complete does not warn you if you are building what has already been built. It just goes back through the whole process. Not sure if that is what you are running into, because 5 and 6 hours for 1 hour worth of content is too long. You might want to check and make sure your DVD-R drive is on its own IDE connection and that the drive is properly enabled.

Kered5 wrote on 10/12/2002, 6:43 PM

Hmmmmm....I just tried riredale's method of burning...ie using Nero to burn the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder onto a DVD-RW...it took about 34 minutes!!! So, there is obviously nothing wrong with the drive...anybody any idea what the hell DVD Complete might be doing to give me a 6 hour burn time for the same disk !????

jetdv wrote on 10/12/2002, 8:01 PM

The answer has already been given to you. It is totally rebuilding the Video_TS folder instead of using the one created the first time. Only the first DVD should take a long time. All subsequent should be only burn time. However, you have to make sure you select that option in the program.

Usings DVDit, I always create a DVD folder which has the Video_TS and Audio_TS folders. I then use Prassi Primo DVD to burn as many copies as I need with no more rebuild time.