I recently upgraded this computer to 2Gb ram and 250 rom. I have been converting movies that I downloaded from the web to DVD from AVI to watch on a standard DVD player. No matter what program I use it always takes 1hr. Lately I have been using the free download, Divx to DVD I downloaded from AfterDawn, it works fine, although sometimes the audio is slower than the video, thats a different thread. Well anyway why doesn't it convert the movies faster from when I had 512ram, 2GBram I thought would be faster. So far I really don't see much difference in my performance I do see some but I thought I would really see it on programs like those I mentioned above, am I asking to much.
Adding RAM to a PC does not necessarily make it go faster specially when you already had sufficient ram for the application you are doing! Your Processor (( and the hardware -- motherboard, disk drive,hard disks..)) , is the one that controls how fast your task is gonna be managed !
What kind of processor do you have? A good rule of thumb is make sure you do a "scan disk or clean up", "defrag" your hard drive on a daily basis. In prior to proceed with your AVI to DVD project, make sure you "disconnecte" from the net, close/shutdown all/any unnecessary programs/applications, etc. Converting and transcoding AVI to DVD takes roughly 1 hr to 3 hrs, depending on your computer specs and ram. Again, make sure you don't "multi-tasks".
Jeanc1 is correct. Encoding is CPU intensive, not RAM intensive. Editing that video beforehand, however, is highly dependent on your RAM and your video card.
ok I'll do my best with this part and maybe I can get more help on my next move. My cpu is a AMD XP Athlon 3000+, My motherboard is a PC chips K7, I have 250gb 7200 hardrive, and 2GB ram. SamSung dvdrom SD616, and a optorite dvd rw dd1205. I am not sure of the speed on the dvds. What should I get to make my baby smoke, cause I thought I was already Crunk!! lol.
part of your slow encoding times are probably due to this particular drive...i've had 3 of these in the past, exact same 12x writer...it's slow as molasses, rips slow, burns slow, does everything slow~ i've RMA'd this drive twice only to get an exact replacement when it died on me after 3 months time... the other "specs" in your system seem pretty good and i know that the Athlon 3000+ is quite fast~ i have a slightly slower Athlon in my 3rd comp and it screams along just fine when it comes to encoding and i only have 1 gig of ram in that computer, pc3200, so it's definitely NOT my fastest rig i use... you MIGHT see some performance boost if you swap out that drive for a "better one"...from my past experience with 3 Optorite DD1205s, i can tell you FIRST HAND, they were the WORST burners i've ever owned...i have 6 diff. kinds now among my various computers and laptop and NONE of them were even 1/2 as slow as the Optorite... like i said, it MIGHT or MIGHT NOT improve your performance, based on your other specs...it doesn't appear to me that it's a RAM issue...or even processor issue at that... docTY~
What exactly is ram for? I thought it was for having more aplication on speeding things up and getting way better game play, well does it make your games better and smoother or does it require more than just a stick of ram????
Here's a link to an excellent article on What is RAM.. How it works.. and what it does ! The explanation given there will save me a lot of typing ! <<smiles>> Good Reading if you a bit technically minded ; not that i want to shy away , ... to the contrary if you need further explanations I will be happy to oblige after you've read it ! http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-memory.htm
I think I almost lost what I started this thread about. I wanted to know why can't I convert my avi formats to dvd any faster no matter how much ram I have. Once they are converted burn time is fine. Its the conversion I want to do faster. Almost forgot, thats what I really wanted, not a faster dvd burner. I have 2gb ram and its no faster in converting avi to dvd than when I had 512 ram. Ok help me with that.
to convert faster u will need a faster cpu. some apps will let u select the priority-low,normal,and high. if u have this option select high. if u select high u will not be able to do other task because ur cpu will be runing at 100%. make sure u have a good cooling system as well, when u run cpu at 100% it creates more heat.
The best way to determine if you need more memory is to open the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc). Go to the Performance tab. If your Page File Usuage History is flatlined, that means you aren't having to page anything out to disk, everything is running in your physical memory. You can also check the amount of available physical memory too. If those values are ok, then additional RAM will not help. gamename is right, for faster encoding it will usually be a faster processor that will speed things up the most.
Could not believe what happened. I went to my computer in the back to convert some movies while my guest were playing Bejewel believe it are not. The computer in the back has the same cpu 3000 XP AMD but 512ram, it converted the movie in 8 minutes. I came back to the front computer with 2GB ram it took the same 34 minutes. I looked at the Task Manager, on the performance tab, on the computer in the front, my cpu was maxed out. I don't understand that, and the ram was using 642mb what in the world is happening.
see if the dma is enabled in the ide controllers in device manager. check in msconfig/startup to see what is there & you recognize.
yeah this sounds like a dma problem. the pc im on right now is my daughters and its a athalon 3000+ and it preforms very well. go to this link and it should help u with the dma...http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/FAQ.htm
