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Aethenoth
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_ 		1. April 2005 @ 23:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey,

Sorry the title was so vague, but I found that curiosity usually gets the better of you and thus, my questions are answered faster. Anyway, getting down to it.

I recently purchased a external lunchbox Lite-on DVD writer (works great...finally) and have mostly used it to back up the countless episodes of anime that I have (all unlicensed until recently) Pretty much all of the eps format are .avi's. I have almost every authoring and encoding tool, but mostly use Nero, since it does everything at once, but now im getting erked (sp?) because the most recent encode/author/burn took exacly 5 hours 14 minutes and 15 seconds...I dont know if im making a big deal, but HOLY S***! It was a 2 piece movie already in .mpg format, so I didnt think it would take so long, but it took longer than the other one (by about 2 hours T.T) ...Long story short, I NEED to know if there is a quicker way to back-up all of my anime. I haven't even made a dent on it yet. (4 DVDs and about 120GB left...) I know encoding and authoring is a tedious process, but I cant stand knowing it will take an eternity to back it all up...Im at a loss for what to do. If it was just on a DVD it would be quicker, i know, but they are all .avis on my computer. I hope you guys can help.

Thanks in advance (and sorry for the long read!)
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nownthen
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_ 		2. April 2005 @ 07:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I use two converting programs. TMPEG and Cucusoft. The one thing I think that Nero won't do is let you setup a list of thing to be converted then you just let it run. I find that if you leave a list of movies to convert over night it goes quicker or at least seems to go quicker.

Of the two I find that the Cucusoft converter converts the fastest but TMPEG has more options thats why I have both of them.
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rebootjim
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_ 		2. April 2005 @ 15:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If they're already mpg, just author and burn, no need to re-encode (which is what Nero is doing).
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Aethenoth
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_ 		2. April 2005 @ 22:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Alright, thanks a bunch

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