why does my computer take so much longer

[joecrab]

i read all the times that are shown it takes to transfer movies to the computer and am amazed. it will take a large movie 50 minutes (give or take a couple) to do each, the analysis and encoding. i have a 80gig, 2.8 gh vaio laptop. was wondering if that is slow in comparison to these ppl that say it takes 30 min to do this

[writersblock29]

If it's only taking you 50 minutes to rip the movie, run the analysis (I'm assuming that you're running DVD Shrink), encode, and burn... you're doing just fine -- in fact, better than most.

For most movies, ripping with a program like DVD Decrypter may take upwards of 20 - 30 minutes. That's not counting processing and burning.

For DVD Shrink usage, many users have posted that processing (using Deep Analysis as well as the new quality improvements) takes several hours. A lot of the variables would include:

A) How fast your DVD ROM drive will read the disk.
B) The speed of your processor, and the amount of RAM you're running (someone with a 256 memory module will not generally see the speed of someone who's using 512, for example).
C) Whether you're running other programs in the background during processing -- as well as DVD Shrink's priority setting.

and

D) The speed of your burner, as well as the rated burning speed of the media.

Running a 2.8 Gig processor, if it's taking you 50 minutes just to rip the movie on to your hard drive (no processing or anything else being performed), then make sure you have the DMA enabled for that drive -- that's the usual culprit. But if it's taking you 50 minutes to fully process a DVD from point A to point Z, you're pretty much flying through it, and need to fix nothing.

[joecrab]

thanks for the info,

i am running 50 or so minutes to do the deep analysis and 50 minutes to do the encoding. it takes 27 or 28 minutes to do the burn.

i do have the the quality improvment button checked, though it was the same with the last version of shrink.

i have 512 ram and i use the 2x speed for burning with decrypter.

i have it on high priortity and i stopped running other programs because it seemed to affect the picture.

sorry i was not more clear on my first post

i also have the sharpness on default

by the way when i told my wife that the picture should be clearer because of the update to shrink she had a look of :confused: and said how could it get any better than what it is. thanks for the program Shrink:D

[nwg]

I consider myself to have average times.

It takes about 15 minutes to rip (either with DVD Deecrypter or with Shrink). The average ripping speed is 4x-7x.

It takes about 30 minutes to do a deep analysis and about 25 minutes for encoding (non EAC). It has taken 1 hour 15 minutes for EAC default sharp encoding.

I then burn at 2x which takes another 30 minutes or 25 minutes at 2.4x.

I only have a AthlonXP 2000 with 512 RAM.