Slow Encoding speeds

[scsa]

Hi I just bought an external blu-ray writer the Asus External blu-ray recorder. I am trying to make a few back ups using BD Rebuilder and the speed goes from 10 mb/s at the first 2 or 3 seconds then continues to drop until it steadies at 1.0 or less now it's at 0.55 as we speak. Is there something wrong with my computer. Right now the Blu-ray writer isn't even being used I put it on my hard drive first as a full disk to see if it would make it faster. My computer is a laptop a Sony Vaio. And the processor is a intel 2 duo with a 2.0 ghz processor in each I think. My video card I believe is a intel card. 4 gigs of ram. The processors are a t6400 processor each. Thanks for any help. I was really wondering if it was normal for it to only be going below 1.0 mb/s the whole time thanks again.

[HWK]

Your speed is proportional to your processor speed.

For your processor it's about right. Though I can't say with absolute certainty without looking at your setting file.

[jdobbs]

You've managed to confuse me. Quoting "10 mb/s" might make sense for reading or writing -- but not for encoding. A "fps" number would be a lot more useful, since there is no direct correlation between "mb/s" and encoding speed.

When encoding, processor speed and processor count are by far the most important features. But you will also find that having your antivirus running while doing an encode might cut you down to half speed or less. I've also seen huge speed drops when using discs that haven't been defragged in a while or are within 10% of their capacity.

On a notebook you can also find that certain power saving settings can greatly affect speed.

[scsa]

Thanks Jdobbs and HWK. I have the computer on no power saving at all. They are all on never in the power saving section. I don't know about the antivirus I might delete defender which is the only program that I have for antivirus and I am going to be buying a desktop this month hopefully. Thanks both. The speed that I mean is under speed it gets usually .055 or something like thanks.

[HWK]

I saw your post on dvdfab as well.
http://forum.dvdfab.com/showthread.php?t=10799

I am bit confused which program you are talking about.

[scsa]

HWK for me it's every program I have used. I am buying a new computer though since I think it's my processor that is too slow. Thanks for the help. I finally got one BD to work. It took about 5-6 hours which I hear is average for most with my processor.