[jackrabbit]

I found that capture of DVD's recorded from television 30-minute DIY programs take 9 minutes using EMC 7.5, while the same program captured immediately thereafter takes 40 minutes with EMC 9.0.
What is wrong here? I am capturing to MPEG. DVI takes much longer.
jackrabbit

[ggrussell]

V8 was the same way. You shouldn't capture to AVI because the DVD is already in MPEG 2 format (VOB). Unfortunately, there is no way to speed this up.

[jackrabbit]

ggrussell, on Oct 23 2006, 03:58 PM, said:

V8 was the same way. You shouldn't capture to AVI because the DVD is already in MPEG 2 format (VOB). Unfortunately, there is no way to speed this up.

Thanks for the response. Can I just use v7.5 capture with the V9 videowave?
Jackrabbit

[ggrussell]

Yes, you can. I did that myself for awhile.

[jlove]

I have a similar "newbie" question. When I use DVD copier, it can create a complete DVD on my system (often compressing 9G to 5G) in under an hour. So why does it take so long to capture the video to disk?

Example, instead of copying to disk, I select the video capture tab using the DVD that I had just copied in about 35 minutes. I wanted to edit the video for compilation purposes. But I interrupted it after 8 hours when it was about 2/3 of the way through. The reason I didn't allow it to complete is that this is a very impractical strategy for getting the files I need to edit, so it was pointless to continue this way.

I tried using some of the other settings available, but I couldn't see that it made much difference.

There seems to be a similar issue on the music front. When I use Roxio to capture the music in MP3 format from a CD, it works very well. But if I ask Roxio to convert those MP3s to Windows Media (or vice versa), it takes a long time--long enough that it would be easier to start with the CD and just do a second rip.

I've got 2G of RAM, so I don't think there's a resource issue.

Thanks for any suggestions.

--Jack

[ggrussell]

Unfortunately, you are asking something that would require someone that knows the inner workings of the application. One thing that can speed up video is to just copy the VOB files to your hard drive manually with Explorer. You can now add VOBs to Videowave or MyDVD just like any other file so there is no need to use Media Import.

This post has been edited by ggrussell: 01 November 2006 - 12:08 PM

[cdanteek]

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You can now add VOBs to Videowave or MyDVD just like any other file so there is no need to use Media Import.

After three versions that wouldn't! Now that's a relief.

cdanteek

[jlove]

ggrussell, on Nov 1 2006, 12:07 PM, said:

Unfortunately, you are asking something that would require someone that knows the inner workings of the application. One thing that can speed up video is to just copy the VOB files to your hard drive manually with Explorer. You can now add VOBs to Videowave or MyDVD just like any other file so there is no need to use Media Import.

Thanks, Gary. I'll give that a try next time I'm doing this.

--Jack