dvdshrink decrypting times

[again and again]

I am very new at this dvd burning. Is it normal for decrypting times to vary greatly? I use dvdshrink. I reauthered Shark Tale and it took about 40 minutes to analyze and 4 hours to encode. The burn only took 15/20 minutes or so at 4x. Now I just decrypted Balto 3 (about the same length of movie time) and it took the same 40 minutes to analyze but only 1 1/2 hour to encode. These encoding times seem excessive compared to what others are saying. My computer is not screaming anymore but it is still a P4 1.5ghz. (was very fast when this cpu came out)
Are my slow encoding times because of my computer or do I need to adjust some parameters in dvdshrink? Or should I be using another decryptor?

Thanks,

[Axed]

No matter what you should be using DVD Decrypter (im really starting to sound like a broken record here, feels like im posting this every day) since DVD Shrink isnt going to be updated, and cannot handle some newer protections from the DVD releasers. Alternatively, if you dont want to rip the files to your hard drive before running it thru Shrink or Recode, you can get DVD43 which is a real time decrypter, but handles the newer protection schemes.

And, if you want a speed increase, download the Nero trials and check out Nero Recode 2. It seems to be quite a large amount faster then DVD Shrink and be around the same quality.

[Chetwood]

Originally posted by Axed
And, if you want a speed increase, download the Nero trials and check out Nero Recode 2. It seems to be quite a large amount faster then DVD Shrink and be around the same quality.

Unlikely since it's the same coder who reused a lot of his stuff. Any numbers on this?

[Axed]

Nah, just personal experience. Dont really have anything i want to waste the time (or hdd space) doing at the moment, so if your curious give it a try. Also, my computer quite crap (go my 1200 athlon) so properly benchmarking would take along time.

[cynthia_old]

Originally posted by Chetwood
Unlikely since it's the same coder who reused a lot of his stuff. Any numbers on this? It is faster. Must depend on a more effective/optimized code. Doing some tests in this (http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47035) thread.

[nwg]

From experience, Shrink encodes/compressed a DVD at 40 minutes. Recode did the same DVD in just over 25 minutes.