Why does the dvd burning process take so long?

[ThreeD]

I want to know why my DVD burning is taking so long. This was not always the case but now for some reason, the burning is taking hours and hours when it used to take less than an hour. I'm using new DVD disks and a fairly new burner (SONY) so I suspect the problem is not hardware but rather software or settings of some type.

I'm using Version 3.61 for a project where I am converting customer home videos on analog tape (8mm) to DVD. Once I have the video digitized and on the timeline, I then use PROCODER EXPRESS FOR EDIUS to do the conversion. The time for this process to complete is what I would expect as it is dependent on the length of the source video. Once the conversion is finished, the burn process then follows. After providing a name for the disk and placing a blank DVD into the burner, I then proceed with the burning of the disk. For a video that is about 90 minutes long the burn process takes about 12 hours. This seems like it is taking much more time than it should.

Do I have some setting specified incorrectly? This used to not take this long.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

[THoff]

If this is a IDE/ATAPI burner, I'm guessing that the controller has reverted from DMA to PIO, which results in much lower transfer rates.

Try going into Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager and examine the ATA controller channels to see if any of them are using PIO -- any hard drives and optical drives should use DMA. If you need to reset a channel from PIO to DMA, simply select the controller in Device Manager and hit the DELETE key then restart Windows, it will re-detect the controller and configure it for DMA.

[ThreeD]

This is an IDE/ATAPI burner. I checked device manager and this device is showing ULTRA DMA and not PIO. What next??????

[antonsvideo]

This is an IDE/ATAPI burner. I checked device manager and this device is showing ULTRA DMA and not PIO. What next??????

it could be that the burner is almost dead or its firmware is way out of date

http://www.firmwarehq.com/

a new burner is about the same price as lunch

[ThreeD]

I replaced the DVD Burner with another burner from a difference computer. With this 'new' burner the burning process is taking just as long. I guess this rules out any problem with the burner. Problem must be related to software or something other than the DVD hardware.

[antonsvideo]

I replaced the DVD Burner with another burner from a difference computer. With this 'new' burner the burning process is taking just as long. I guess this rules out any problem with the burner. Problem must be related to software or something other than the DVD hardware.

1. set Edius Disk Creator so it does not burn, but create image file only

2. then use ImgBurn (free) and burn the VIDEO_TS folder created in step1

3. see how long this takes, if it takes longer than 10min, you have a problem with the IDE adapter and you need to delete it in device manager, then reboot twice and it will be automatically installed by windows

4. test the burn again

[dpalomaki]

Is anything else on the same IDE controller in addition to the DVD burner?

[ThreeD]

In device manager it shows that the IDE controler has two channels--the primary channel and the secondary channel. The DVD burner is on the secondary channel with another optical drive that I do not use when burning DVD's. The DVD burner is the slave drive on the secondary channel and the master is the other optical drive on the secondary channel. The primary channel is where I have the boot drive installed and it is the master drive.

[tingsern]

Can you try the IMG_BURN as suggested by Anton first? Just to eliminate the possibility of EDIUS causing the problem?

[ThreeD]

I downloaded and installed IMGBURN. When the product is launched, it get to the first screen where I select 'write' mode and then specify the folder that contains the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. I select the VIDEO_TS folder and click open. Then I select the VIDEO_TS.IFO file and click open, I get a message "You're in the wrong 'Mode' for burning DVD video files. Switch to 'Build' Mode and try again".

I switch to 'Build' mode, navigate and select as the SOURCE the folder that contains the output from PROCODER EXPRESS. This folder contains the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. The name of this folder is MARCH 1995. I click on the calculater button to show how much space will be used on a disk and it shows 93%. I then click on the OPTIONS Tab and it shows for "Data Type:" the value "MODE1/2048", and for "File System: the value "ISO9660 + UDF". I then click on the LABELS Tab and for the ISO9660 and UDF boxes I specify the value "MARCH_1995" in both boxes. In the DESTINATION box I first click on the "Browse for a file" button to specify the name of the destination file. What is specified in the DESTINATION box is the following: E:\IMGBURN Files\MARCH_1995.BIN

I then click on the BUILD Button and get a popup showing that there are 9 files and 2 folders along with some other info. I then click OK in this popup and some process begins to run. After about 1 minute of elapsed time I get an error box that appears that shows the following message: Cannot read from file E:\Procoder Express Output\March 1995\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB. Reason: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

Since I am not familiar with IMGBURN and have no prior experience with it, I am not sure how to use it. My DVD drive is configured as Drive letter G but I am assuming that once the BUILD process is completed, I would then switch to WRITE mode to actually burn the disk.

Not sure what I need to do next.

[dpalomaki]

How fast is the burner if you try to burn a plainold data DVD as opposed to a video DVD? Say copy about a gigabyte or swo of data files to the DVD say a AVI or other large file or two?

What is the other optical drive? Might it be causing the issue? Maybe remove it and make you DVD the only drive on the controller - reset jumpers as needed from slave.

[Raja]

You may have a bad drive (E:), hence the I/O device error.

Try burnong a similar sized file from another drive other than E: and see how long it takes.

[antonsvideo]

ImgBurn is simple to use

follow the 4 steps

http://www.videoproductions.com.au/ImgBurn/

[ThreeD]

I installed NERO 9 on my workstation so that I could copy an existing DVD that I had previously created to check and see if the DVD burner is working properly. I used a DVD that had a 14 minute video on it. NERO disk copy took about 5 minutes to burn a copy of the disk. I then tried burning the same source disk on another computer that also had NERO 9 installed on it. The copy operation took about 5 minutes as well. From this, I can only assume that the DVD burner is working properly--at least with NERO 9.

Thanks to a previous post from Antonsvideo, I followed their instructions in using IMGBURN to burn a DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder. I used the same folder as I had mentioned in post #10 in this thread. I got the same error message that I had described previously about the I/O error.

I am not sure what this all means except that the DVD burner seems to be working fine and the problem is with the file that is the output from PROCODER EXPRESS. Not sure what to do or how to correct this problem.

[antonsvideo]

what is your burner model and firmware?

maybe Procoder Express is way too old to recognize newer burners

but if Nero works, use Nero to burn the Video_TS created with Procoder

be sure you make a DVD-VIDEO and not DVD-ROM

http://www.videoproductions.com.au/html/dvd-lab-pro3.html