Programs take over 4 hours to 'burn'

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:07 pm

I have received the following Private Email which appears to be a matter for the DVD Workshop forum, though obviously the original poster has not identified which software is being used.

Hey steve, how are you doing over there....? sorry i bother you again but it's that i got doubt, i have created a movie, i put 1 subtite and 1 extra audio in it. It's the movie Finding nemo, the format of this movie is *.avi. and i also designed my menu and some other things. You know what....? by the moment i clicked the button burn and of course after configuring it, it started converting the movie but my god it was very very slow. With Uead Videoc System it takes me 3 or 4 hours to burn a movie of 2 hours. This movie lasts 1.30m and i had to cancel the process cause it was 5.30 hours and it had only advanced 20%, do you imagine how long it was going to be to finish this process???? Well i wanted to ask you if this is normal? cause' it lasts too much to burn. Do you think it is because it's a *.avi movie? why is it? Please help with this....

thank you very much Steve.

note.- I dont think it could be my pc cause' its fast and a good machine

José Pariona

Firstly I have placed an Announcement on the forum regarding these private emails which unfortunately are now becoming too frequent for me to be able to answer each on an individual basis.

Regarding this posters query. I think I am correct in assuming this is a video downloaded off the internet and will be in either a DivX / Xvid or MPEG4 format. These formats are now wideley used by television companies who are placing their programs onto the internet for download.

I have found that videos in these formats are best 'de-compressed' into an MPEG2 format before being passed to DVD Workshop oif DVD authoring. Their are a wide range of decompression programs available
some free and others for a small payment.

The Free programs can be found in our links to free stuff.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:55 am

Agreed. The same can apply to highly compressed WMV files or any highly compressed format, for that matter. The problem is that if you have a GOP of, say, 50, you have to read and process 50 frames each time you encode a single frame, upgrading it to a GOP of 12 or 15 in MPEG-2. With DV AVI, you read and process only 12-15 frames at a time, so it obviously goes a lot quicker.