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Reynolds
05-12-2007, 10:33 PM
Part of my mother's day gift to my mom was a DVD copying program, a dvd carrying case, and some blank dvds. I have the same program at home, that I use to copy dvds (clonedvd)

The total process takes a little under 30 minutes for each dvd at home. My mother has a similar processor, 1.5 gig ram (to my 2.5) and same speed burner. The whole process there took about 4 hours per dvd. The only difference between the two pcs that I can think of might be the video card. Would that make that big of a difference? Thanks.

PapaBear
05-12-2007, 10:49 PM
I've never copied DVD's but I've burned video on them. It always takes me several hours w/ my 1 gig of ram. Think about it. The difference between 1.5 and 2.5 is huge. That's probably it.

Reynolds
05-12-2007, 10:51 PM
8 times longer? I'm copying one right now, just started and it already says 12 minutes remaining. My mom's computer was something crazy like 176 minutes remaining.

PapaBear
05-12-2007, 10:55 PM
It may not be the only problem, but it's probably the main one. I don't know what a better video card would do. That might help. I'm just basing it on the amount of time mine always takes.

Now that I think about it, the vid card might be part of it. I haven't burned on in a while, but I think my last one was faster than the others. I now have a 256mb card, while I used to have a 32mb card.

Reynolds
05-13-2007, 12:44 AM
Thanks for the help, think I'll wait to see if anyone else replies before I spend money either way.

zentraed
05-13-2007, 01:56 AM
The video card and ram shouldn't make any difference with the ripping phase. A dual-layer dvd may take longer to rip, but 4 hours is pretty extreme. How old is her burner? Even though the speeds may be the same, they may not be from the same company or have the same performance characterisitics.

Reynolds
05-13-2007, 02:32 AM
Not sure about the specs on her dvd drive. Mine is a sony 8x, but hers came installed in her HP comp, that she bought about 3 months ago with an athlon 64 3700

JPMNICK
05-13-2007, 10:31 AM
how similiar of a processor? are you sure it is as close as you think? in your setup, do you have a dual drive setup? does she have a dual drive setup? are you sure you were compressing it on a higher setting on her PC?

Reynolds
05-13-2007, 12:28 PM
They're both Athlon 64 3700+, mine might be overclocked slightly, but thats it. Both using the same drive for ripping and burning. Both were about a 65% compression. Maybe I'll look into the drive speeds, don't know why they'd have such a shit drive built into the comp tho, since theyre so cheap nowadays.

Reynolds
05-15-2007, 12:25 PM
Did some googling on the matter, and found out that HP limits the DVD rip speed of their drives, to limit DVD copying. I bought a new DVD drive that just reads, and got it down to 70 minutes for the whole process. I guess HP also turns off DMA on the drives, and it can't be changed unless you go through the bios. Fuckin assholes

JPMNICK
05-15-2007, 12:27 PM
Did some googling on the matter, and found out that HP limits the DVD rip speed of their drives, to limit DVD copying. I bought a new DVD drive that just reads, and got it down to 70 minutes for the whole process. I guess HP also turns off DMA on the drives, and it can't be changed unless you go through the bios. Fuckin assholes

wow that sucks, I had no idea of that. crazyness

Reynolds
05-15-2007, 01:00 PM
Now I enter the bios, and options for all drives is greyed out so you can't change them. Supposedly theres a secret technician way to get the bios to start up with the added functions that I have to try now, then while searching for bios upgrades, I guess the one I have blows, and the upgrade isn't even downloadable from hp, you have to call tech support and they mail you a floppy, wow hp fucking blows.

JPMNICK
05-15-2007, 01:06 PM
Now I enter the bios, and options for all drives is greyed out so you can't change them. Supposedly theres a secret technician way to get the bios to start up with the added functions that I have to try now, then while searching for bios upgrades, I guess the one I have blows, and the upgrade isn't even downloadable from hp, you have to call tech support and they mail you a floppy, wow hp fucking blows.

well I can see why they do this, because they do not want Joe Average user to go into the BIOS and fuck things up, and then bitch to their friends about how much HP computers suck

topless_mike
05-18-2007, 04:37 AM
some programs do a direct copy, and some have to preview the dvd to compress it to fit.

if its ripping and burning, the video card has nothing to do with it. its just straight data transfer.