Fastest DVD backup?

bombidol

hi, just wanted to ask what peoples opinions are on the fasted DVD back up software around? Im using DVD shrink at the moment but its taking the guts of 2 hours to Do the business with 8X discs. Is there any faster software around?

DemonOfTheFall

A faster processor and a better DVD drive

If any other program does it faster it'll be at the expense of quality. If it needs transcoding it needs transcoding and theres a lot of processing involved in transcoding 2 hours of MPEG 2

Sgtshaft

bombidol wrote:

hi, just wanted to ask what peoples opinions are on the fasted DVD back up software around? Im using DVD shrink at the moment but its taking the guts of 2 hours to Do the business with 8X discs. Is there any faster software around?

Do you have "perform deep analysis before backup" selected in your backup options? This can double the time it takes to encode but quailty is very good.
I am assuming your rig is up to it.

odie

That happened to me once was taking up to 2 hours, I removed and re-installed the IDE controller in Device manager. Solved the problem. Not sure how but it worked.

jcoote

dvdxcopy is great just one button and its encoded and copied to dvd.... bout 40 mins i think the last time i used it

Sgtshaft

odie wrote:

That happened to me once was taking up to 2 hours, I removed and re-installed the IDE controller in Device manager. Solved the problem. Not sure how but it worked.

They were probably in PIO mode.

Mutant_Fruit

DVDShrink should be a lot faster than 2hours. With the default settings, i think my XP2500+ can do a DVD in under 30 mins for converting + 10 mins for burning.

odie

Sgtshaft wrote:

They were probably in PIO mode.

No they were on UDMA, but something screwed over DVD encoding....found that piece of advice on a thread somewhere and it worked.

jozi

I use clone dvd and it takes about 16 mins with 8X discs.
If it has to shrink the dvd it could double thou.

EDIT: burning the actuall disc goes in about 6-7 mins average which is plenty fast imo

bombidol

yeah its the compression thats killing me more than anything. Although what im doing now is building another machine thats solely designed for the purpose. So i can run these progs in high priority mode and it should take less time.
Also. Im using Datawrite Yelllow tops that are 8X but for some reason My burner is able to burn them at 12X , though to be honest even Burning at 12X is slow.

Mutant_Fruit

If you think 7-8 mins per 4.7gb disc is slow, then you really need to get away from the computer a bit more often

Running in "high priority" won't affect the encoding time much, unless you have other CPU intensive programs running. So in general i wouldn't bother running it in high priority, it reduces the responsiveness of the system way to much.

What's in your computer at the moment?

DemonOfTheFall

Yeah, running high priority wont make it any faster, unless you normally have a lot going on while its copying your dvds