Rendering Speed

franc11s wrote on 5/19/2003, 12:55 PM
OK, I'm new to DVD A.

I have a file that was an 1.5 hour MPEG recording at average quality taken from a Hauppauge TV Capture card. I clip it to 1 hour for burning.

If I dragged that MPEG file onto MYDVD, clip to 1 hour, it takes a fews mins preparing and then burns.

When I drag the file into DVDA, clip to 1 hour, it took 15 hours to render/compress before I could burn.

Why would this be? Is DVDA takeing so much longer because it's doing a so much better job than mydvd? I really don't care that much for quality on these burns. I just want a watchable DVD to watch on TV and reuse. Quality is NOT what I want in this example.

Can I stop / speed up the rendering process and just get it to copy the MPEG which I'm sure just works when put onto a DVD ?


Please HELP.

Thanks.

MY PC is 1.8ghz, 200gb disk and 512mb Ram.

Comments

jetdv wrote on 5/19/2003, 1:07 PM
DVDA is obviously re-rendering for some reason. Without specifics, it will be difficult to tell why. Is the MPEG one of DVDA's allowed options? Did you set a specific bitrate in DVDA? etc....
franc11s wrote on 5/20/2003, 9:11 AM
I'm guessing then that DVDA does NOT SUPPORT Hauppauge or repplayTV MPEGS without recompressing.

The only files I seem to have that do not need recompressing or compressing are the MPEGS I created in Pinnacle Studio 8.

My DV files from my GL1 and my Replay MPEGS and my Hauppauge MPEGS all need compressing or recompressing.

I have changed no defaults. I guess this is the norm ? Right ?

Can someone please tell me why the compression is taking SO LONG. Is there any way to speed it up (say if money was no onject)
franc11s wrote on 5/21/2003, 7:18 AM
ANyone there. Are there other more active forums on DVDA?
jetdv wrote on 5/21/2003, 8:52 AM
THIS is the most active DVDA forum.

As for the time - it takes TIME to encode to MPEG2. A recent 2 hour (bad vhs footage) program took 16 HOURS to render to MPEG2 format on my computer.

As for footage needing to be re-encoded, if it not a compatible format, it MUST be re-encoded.

So, what exactly is the question?
radcamdvd wrote on 5/21/2003, 12:12 PM
Perhaps ProCoder is the answer? ;)