Maestro compile takes 2 days!!!

[anoopkumar]

Ok, now I'm going to remove my head from my ass and ask:

Does Spruce DVD Maestro always take hours and hours to compile a DVD that would fit onto a 4.7GB disc? I have just read the official documentation, which says that it should take minutes or even up to half an hour. However, I'm trying to compile a backup of Panic Room right now and it has taken a bit over 36 hours to produce a VIDEO_TS.VOB (114KB), VTS_01_0.VOB (10KB) and VTS_01_1.VOB (800MB so far). :(

I have an Athlon 1.4GHz (not XP) with 512 MB of DDR on a Soyo Dragon Lite motherboard, with ATA-100 drives. The source files are the .AC3 and .M2V files (the latter transcoded with ReMPEG) that DVD Decrypter produced from the original disc.

What's going on? :confused:

[tumbar]

15-30 minutes tops, depending upon how big the disk is, 2-4.3 gigs.

Not sure of what to suggest.

Is this the first compilation you have tried with the program?

Jim

PS. Can hear you much clearer now with head removed from above referenced orfice! :rolleyes:

[anoopkumar]

No, I've compiled a few discs. Once, it took about 18 hours. The first VOB took probably 8-10 of those hours, then each successive VOB took less and less time. I've since reinstalled the OS from scratch due to a major crash, so I'm pretty sure I have a clean system.

I should also mention that I do have a Cinemaster decoder card. I did not have one before the rebuild, so I doubt that the card is doing anything during the compile process. It's just a decoder card, not an encoder, right? In fact, I doubt that the card is doing anything at all, because before I installed the Cinemaster codec, Maestro still said that RT Preview was not available, even though the card drivers were installed automatically and seemingly perfectly the first time. After installing the codec, RT Preview became available. This, however, is entirely another issue....

[tumbar]

How long does it take to import the files into the program itself? What operating sytem are you using?
Plenty of drive space?
Defrag?
DMA enabled for IDE drives?
:D

[anoopkumar]

I had been running 3 processes of SETI @ Home.:o Even though they were running at Idle priority, the CPU usage was still 100% all the time. After ending them, I started another compile and it took about 3 minutes to produce a 300+ MB VOB.

At that rate, it will take...let's see...300...3 mins...hmmm...A lot less time :D

The .m2v file also was extraordinarily fragmented - 2388 fragments! I'll defrag the drive and try again. I'm sure I'll get some more speed, but the CPU usage was probably the main factor.

Thanks for your suggestions, tumbar. They made me look in places I hadn't considered.

[auenf]

Originally posted by anoopkumar
I had been running 3 processes of SETI @ Home.:o Even though they were running at Idle priority, the CPU usage was still 100% all the time. After ending them, I started another compile and it took about 3 minutes to produce a 300+ MB VOB.

it seems that maestro does use a low priority when doing a compile (probably cause it always does a background compile, where when burning a dvdr it asks for foreground or background)

Enf...

[anoopkumar]

The compile I just did took 18 minutes! Sheesh, that'll teach me to go looking for aliens....

[auenf]

who says there are aliens out there anyway? ;)

Enf...

[TRILIGHT]

Oh, they're out there. They probably just don't give a damn about talking to us. ;) That, or the fact that it would take AGES to get here.

On a related note, I'm glad you got your problem figured out, anoopkumar. It takes a big person to admit they're wrong (even to themselves) and an even bigger one to do so in "public". I've been wrong from time to time but not often damnit! hehe ;) Anyway, it's good to see people share their experiences, no matter how small, so that others might learn from these mistakes.

[anoopkumar]

It helps to have a sense of humor, and it's certainly easier when the people to whom you are doing the admitting:

1) Don't know you personally and aren't standing in front of you.
2) Have been known to say things with tongue in cheek
3) Generally don't take things as seriously as the general public.

After all, when all of this ends, they'll just put me in the ground, throw dirt on my face and put a stone on top that has a '-' representing my entire life.

[TRILIGHT]

Originally posted by anoopkumar
After all, when all of this ends, they'll just put me in the ground, throw dirt on my face and put a stone on top that has a '-' representing my entire life.

Holy crap dude! I love it! That's going to be my new signature. Did you come up with that or did you get it from somewhere?

[anoopkumar]

I heard it many times in a course I did called the Landmark Forum (http://www.landmarkeducation.com).

[auenf]

shouldnt there be something about a box as well? ;)

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[TRILIGHT]

I'm not that important, Auenf. ;)

[Arky]

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity" - Maximus Decimus Meridius - AKA Gladiator.

...And the moral is?


Make sure you get your Re-authoring method well and truly sussed, cos if you don't, you're gonna be pulling your hair out for all enternity, and there's only just-so-many follicles on one person's head :rolleyes:


Arky ;o)

[mpucoder]

What a strange name - it translates (roughly) to "greatest 10 middle".
Anyway, I cut a deal with a local monument carver, and if he's still in the business when I go, I get a "~" instead of "-".