Long Processing Time BD50 to BD25

[Guest]

I am using the Blu-ray copy feature to compress from BD50 to BD25, if necessary. This seems to take a long time. For example, it took over 4 hours to compress the movie "The Lovely Bones" from around 31 GB to around 23 GB. I am ripping the "movie only" to save space. See the log below.

I recently upgraded my video card to an NVidia GeForce GTX 460. I am using Windows 7 Professional, and the CPU is an AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 5600+. I have an LG BD-RE GBW-H20L. I am saving the ripped movies to a D-Link NAS (DNS-343), in which I have installed 4 2 TB hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration (6 TB of usable space).

First of all, I am wondering if it is better to rip the Blu-ray movie to BD50 first on the NAS, then compress it to BD25. I have tried this for saving time, and it doesn't save much. However, I was wondering if it is too hard on the LG BD-RE to keep it reading the original Blu-ray movie disk for 4 hours, rather than read the NAS for 4 hours during the compression process. Ripping it first to BD50 takes an extra step; but I'll do that if it will save wear and tear on the LG BD-RE.

Secondly, I thought upgrading the video card would help more than it did. It did bring the processing time down from 5-6 hours to 4, but I thought I would get a bigger savings than only an hour or so. Any thoughts on things I can do (other than replace the CPU) to speed things up for the compression process?

DVDFab log:

DVDFab 8.0.6.1 (2010/12/22 22:19:36)

0m 02.80s: option dvd2dvd 1 dvd2mobile 1 bluray2bluray 1 bd2mobile 1 bd23d 1 bd2dvd 1 file2mobile 1 filemover 1
0m 07.06s: detected blu-ray
0m 07.06s: drive E
0m 07.06s: blu-ray type 1
0m 07.08s: volume label THE_LOVELY_BONES_D1
0m 08.06s: root 04155275 THE_LOVELY_BONES_D1:THE_LOVELY_BONES_D1:THE_LOVELY _BONES_D1:THE_LOVELY_BONES_D1
0m 10.34s: aacs 1 bd+ 0
0m 12.27s: file 88888.jar is too big, sectors available 25, sectors required 26
0m 12.27s: file 88890.jar is too big, sectors available 59, sectors required 60
0m 12.30s: got discinfo
0m 12.93s: got bdmv
0m 12.98s: got agid 0
0m 13.27s: sent host cert chal
0m 13.57s: got drive cert chal
0m 13.99s: got drive key
0m 13.99s: got host key signature
0m 14.00s: verified drive signature
0m 14.00s: verified host signature
0m 14.52s: sent host signature and key point
0m 14.52s: got bus key
0m 14.58s: got volume id
0m 14.58s: got volume id mac
0m 14.58s: volume id is correct
0m 14.60s: got vid
0m 14.66s: blu-ray 906AEFECEC26A4C9AB6FE6D895C4EE029F4D26BE
0m 15.46s: D 5AC13A9D
0m 15.47s: got vuk
0m 15.47s: got unit key 7
0m 20.93s: got extended bdinfo
6m 31.42s: Blu-ray Copy: Main Movie
6m 31.42s: Source: E:\BDMV\
6m 31.42s: Playlist: 0
6m 31.42s: Chapters: 1 -> 13
6m 31.42s: SourceSize: 38066 MB
6m 31.43s: RemoveHDAudio: 0
6m 31.43s: OutputTarget: BD25
6m 31.43s: OutputVideo: 1080p/i
6m 31.48s: Video reencode bitrate (18508 kbps)
6m 31.48s: compress begin: Blu-ray groups clips(00010.m2ts), playtime(8130288 ms), size(40264 MB)
6m 31.50s: processing source(00010.m2ts)
6m 31.50s: Lightning-Recoding (accelerate H.264 software decoding and encoding) enabled
6m 32.62s: h264_encode: encode param profile(2) level(41) bitrate(18508)
255m 18.87s: group(00010.m2ts ) playtime(8130288 ms) source(40264 MB) request(23463 MB) real(22174 MB) bitrate(18508 kbps)
255m 18.90s: compress finished: groups request(23463 MB, 23463 MB) real(22174 MB) average_bitrate(18508 kbps)

[maineman]

You're correct in not wanting to compress on the initial rip from the BD disc (ODD). Way too much time and worse, way too much wear and tear on your ODD.
Please compress only from the ripped, non-compressed, hdd files

Not sure what the problem is with your NAS, but it shouldn't take 4 hours, based on your hardware.
How exactly is the hdd that you ripped to connected?

I would think you'd get more bang out of the GTX 460 too, but you I believe you're being throttled elsewhere
and to be honest, GPU acceleration is still a work in progress

[vWvSTATICvWv]

It's multiple things that factor the speed of the encode. The GPU helps, but what about your memory? And even though an X2 is sufficient for everyday use, BD encoding is taxing on your system. I was running a 4800+ X2 prior to the one in my sig and these BD programs maxed out the cores..100% for 4-6hrs.

Now, I do BD50 movies in about 2-3hrs depending on the size and my hexacore doesn't even sweat! lol Something that's about 20-30gb, I finish in about an hour n half. Only time I've run into a long encode was, The Expendables. I used the "other" prog and it took about 4hrs and that is because certain streams demanded 2passes.

I'm not saying to go out and spend money on a new PC but if you want faster encodes then you do need to upgrade.

[Guest]

You're correct in not wanting to compress on the initial rip from the BD disc (ODD). Way too much time and worse, way too much wear and tear on your ODD.
Please compress only from the ripped, non-compressed, hdd files

Not sure what the problem is with your NAS, but it shouldn't take 4 hours, based on your hardware.
How exactly is the hdd that you ripped to connected?

I would think you'd get more bang out of the GTX 460 too, but you I believe you're being throttled elsewhere
and to be honest, GPU acceleration is still a work in progress

Thanks for the comments.

The NAS is connected via an ethernet patch cord to the router and then the drive is mapped to a drive letter. The NAS has no direct connection, such as USB or eSata, so my only choice is a network drive. However, I use Cat 6 everywhere and it is Gigabit ethernet, so it should be relatively fast.

[SuperFist]

Thanks for the comments.

The NAS is connected via an ethernet patch cord to the router and then the drive is mapped to a drive letter. The NAS has no direct connection, such as USB or eSata, so my only choice is a network drive. However, I use Cat 6 everywhere and it is Gigabit ethernet, so it should be relatively fast.

And that's where your issue is! No matter how fast your ethernet connection is, it will never match the speed of SATA or eSATA. I recommend you connect an eSATA PCI bracket to your PC and configure your 6TB RAID setup for a single SATA port.

[Racem22]

I don't know if that's such a good idea, as eSATA is sort of a pain to maintain. You have to be in AHCI mode, likes to drop out from time to time, etc. Stick with the gigabit network, it should be plenty fast enough.

[mntofdk66]

figured out

I figured out that you have to open bluray copy, set your source and target, Then load the disc! if you load the disc then try to set source and target it will take forever to analyze(if at all), why i dont know, but if you do it in the above order it takes no time!

[SuperFist]

I figured out that you have to open bluray copy, set your source and target, Then load the disc! if you load the disc then try to set source and target it will take forever to analyze(if at all), why i dont know, but if you do it in the above order it takes no time!

I had to find that out the hard way, too!

Also when I was trying to select options while the disc or movie was selected, the program would just quit.

[stumblinh]

I've been running a radeon hd 4650 in my system for some time.. make for pretty long sessions... I just saw an newegg deal that I couldn't pass up.. after $20 MIR only 59.99 shipped! XFX GT240XZHFC GeForce GT 240 1GB 128-bit DDR5 HD video card.. to replace.. finally have some cuda's Should make a nice bump in performance for me. Rest of system is decent enough 8gb ram and Phenom II x4 945 cpu.