World's fastest render of a dv file

thomasprod wrote on 11/10/2009, 5:41 PM
I claim a Guinness world record for the fastest render of a 3 minute dv file. I rendered and burnt this 3 min video in 2 min and 15 seconds. I have a i7 machine with 6gig of mem running XP stock not overclocked. My burner is a 22x LG. Can anyone beat that and if so what machine, format, etc.? The race is on.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/11/2009, 5:34 AM
Whew! That IS fast, Thomas!

The only downside: Unless your disc media can keep up with you (22x?) you may get some errors on your burn. But I trust your burner can down-speed to match your discs.
Sonata wrote on 11/11/2009, 6:45 AM
Can I claim the slowest? I have to let mine run overnight.

P4 3.0HT, 1.5GB DDR 2700 RAM, 4x OEM burner but it never gets that fast.....

The upside is that it forces me to leave the computer to do other things while I render/prepare/burn, otherwise my hobby would consume more time than my job.
A. Grandt wrote on 11/11/2009, 8:10 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong. A DV file is a PAL or NTSC DVD resolution Mpeg2 file, right?

Why would it need to be rendered ?
Or are you talking about dropping the 3 min file on a simple DVD and render and burn the DVD structure?

Still, at only 3 minutes in length, that is pretty fast as most (all I've seen) DVD burners take over a minute to write the lead-in and -out.
MPM wrote on 11/11/2009, 9:30 AM
Careful, as every time I've bragged about anything performance wise something's broken [hard &/or software speaking] soon after. ;?P

Purely FWIW, in general practice you might want to consider many burning apps will offer to pad a DVD to minimal data size [for compatibility] with something that small. Also, just because you burnt it, doesn't mean stb players will read it -- the Egg offers plenty of 22X drives, but no blanks over 16X. As a speed test it's cool, but I wouldn't burn DVDs that mattered at non-rated speeds.
thomasprod wrote on 11/12/2009, 5:30 AM
Allvery good points. The Drive I use is in fact advertised at 22x but runs at 18x (Arch. window indicator). I have found that many of the 16x disks actually only run at 8x, so yes that is correct. And yes, burn times are mostly writing out the DVD after burning. They burn quickly at 18x but writing out is the time chomper. Render speed is the only variable. The i7 cranks with 8 cores running about 30 to 40%. Of course if the content length is longer, like an hour of content, the processing and render time becomes the limiting factor it seems.

This all started when I wanted to make some simple DVDs and found that my trips to the refrig while the DVD was rendering was adding inches to my waist line. So consider this the DVD burning wait reduction program.