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Jasper44
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 09:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
When I am converting a dvd to mp4 with PQ DVD it takes longer than it is supposed to. It is supposed fast forward through the movie while converting it but mine goes in slow motion(takes about 4 hours for a 2 hour movie). I didn't think anything of it until I went to my friends house to show him how to do it and his computer did a 2 hour movie in 30 mins. I have 512mb of memory and a 1.5ghz processor. Is the slowdown because of my memory, processor, or a combination of both.
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wdowsing
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 09:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
wat are the exzat specs of ur machine ie what processor what type of mem, what dvd r-w wat hdd ect
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ddp
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 11:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
what free resources do you have before burning?
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Jasper44
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 11:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What do you mean by free resources? All i'm doing is converting a dvd to mp4, not burning just to clarify.
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 12:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
when you do ctrl-alt-del, a menu comes up on the screen, select performance tab & look at right hand bottom corner where it tells you total ram, paged ram & available ram. what is the available ram #??
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 12:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you are encoding, then it is CPU intensive, not memory intensive.
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Jasper44
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 13:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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when you do ctrl-alt-del, a menu comes up on the screen, select performance tab & look at right hand bottom corner where it tells you total ram, paged ram & available ram. what is the available ram
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Physical Memory (K)
Total: 491056
Available: 279912
System Cache: 106648

Kernel Memory (K)
Total: 57836
Paged: 34276
Nonpaged: 23560
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If you are encoding, then it is CPU intensive, not memory intensive.
Does that mean my processor?
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ddp
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 13:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
when was the last time the hd was defragged as your available ram is good.
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Jasper44
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 13:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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when was the last time the hd was defragged as your available ram is good.
A very long time ago. I just ran the analysis and it says I should defragment it and it gave me these numbers.

Volume Fragmentation
Total fragmentation=15%
File fragmentation=31%

So my slow encoding speeds has to do with my level of fragmentation?
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ddp
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 18:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
defrag the drive than see how long it takes to encode a disk
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Jasper44
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_ 		20. January 2006 @ 22:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I defraged it then went to pq dvd and converted the Best of Mike Myers which is 1 hour and 23 mins. It still took 2 1/2 hours to convert it. AHHH stupid computer. It is supposed to convert in fast forward...not slow motion!!
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