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Ammy7777
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_ 		30. January 2006 @ 07:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I recently started burning DVD's and my only problem is the length of time it takes. I have tried DVDClone and and few other trial versions and they all take hours and hours (5+) to read and burn. My DMA settings are

Primary Channel:
Device 0
Device Type Auto Detection
Transfer Mode DMA if Available
Current Transfer Mode Ultra DMA Mode 5

Device 1
Device Type Auto Detection
Transfer Mode DMA if Available
Current Transfer Mode Not Applicable

Secondary Channel
Device 0
Device Type Auto Detection
Transfer Mode DMA if Available
Current Transfer Mode Ultra DMA Mode 2

Device 1
Device Type Auto Detection
Transfer Mode DMA if Available
Current Transfer Mode PIO Mode

My computer is
HP xt948
Pentium 4 1.60 GHZ
256 MB Ram
Windows XP

My burner is a HP dvd740 16X External

If anyone can please let me know what I can do to speed up the process that would be great! Thank You

Ammy
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holleyron
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_ 		30. January 2006 @ 10:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Have you tried burning with DVD Shrink with ANY DVD running in the background?

Ron
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Ammy7777
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_ 		31. January 2006 @ 06:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How do those programs that run in the background work? I recently heard about one called AnyDVD.

I upgraded my RAM yesterday to 512 and it does not seem to help much. I'm going to put in an internal dvd burner in this week and see if that speeds things up. I was running an external burner into a non high speed port. I was told that even if I upgrade my ports that an internal burner is much faster.
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andmerr
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_ 		31. January 2006 @ 08:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i doubt if your going to get a much better result, your chip set is a little on the slow side.You can only do so much with a Pentium 4 1.60 GHZ chipset.

Maybe look at what i have :



what else do you do while the encoding/burning is taking place?????

Slysofts Anydvd is a tool to allow you to bypass the encyptions that are present in all commercially made dvds and also allow you to affect region codes so that you can copy or back them up
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binkie7
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_ 		31. January 2006 @ 09:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@Ammy7777
One of your channels is in the very slooow pio mode - change that one to DMA. Here's a guide if needed - faq #2:
http://bbmayo.home.comcast.net/FAQ.htm
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andmerr
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_ 		31. January 2006 @ 19:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
your just so cool binkie7 , how come you never dish that kind of advice out to me............
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Ammy7777
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_ 		1. February 2006 @ 05:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Would Service Pack 2 help?
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@andmerr
Ask and you shall receive..... :)

@Ammy7777
Yes you should have sp2 imo just for the fixes at least.
It seems your problem is mainly the external burner with no high speed port. Have you installed an internal burner yet? Make sure all your channels are in dma mode.


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_ 		1. February 2006 @ 23:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Take the 740 out of the case and use it as an internal burrner.
Bruce
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i'm asking ..................
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Ammy7777
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_ 		2. February 2006 @ 06:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I updated the Dma Modes, by uninstalling the channel that was set in PIO mode and when it reinstalled itself it was in Ultra DMA Mode. But one of the Transfer Modes does read "Not Applicable".

With DVD Shrink I can do the whole process in 3 hours. I'm going to have a Internal burner put in today. Will see if that speeds up the process. It burns at 8x right now.

I do not do anything with the computer while the dvd's are burning. Is it ok to set DVD Shrink at Realtime or high through the task manager?
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andmerr
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did you upgrade your chipset
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Ammy7777
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_ 		3. February 2006 @ 10:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I installed the Internal burner and now I can do the whole DVD Copy Process in under 25 minutes, read and burn. So I am very happy. Running that burner into that non high speed port was the problem. And I'm sure upgrading the RAM to 512 and resetting the Primary and Secondary Channels helped.

I had burned some home movies onto DVD+R from VHS on a DVD/VHS combo and I can't get my DVD/Burner on my computer to recognize any of them. Any reason why? My computer brings them up as Blank Discs. But when I put them in the DVD/VHS combo they were burned on, they are not blank.
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binkie7
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_ 		3. February 2006 @ 15:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@Ammy7777
Yep a high speed port can make all the difference esp. when large files are involved. That end seems to be sorted out.
Now the copy of dvd recorder well I've only copied one and I used DVD Decrypter to rip in iso mode then burned the .mds file decrypter created with decrypter also. My burner didn't recognize it either to play back. But did rip it w/ decrypter.
Here's a little more info in this thread:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1/297280#1712904
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