The American

[soberjohn23]

Okay... So I got resident evil afterlife done. went to main feature option and all went well. About 40-ish minutes to do. So now I'm attempting The American and soon Salt. But... now The American is taking forever. And I'm already in main movie mode. Anyone else experience this? Is this going to be the gig with new movies? taking 12 hrs or so to copy? I'm not compressing at this point, screw all the extras features, how they made the movie, bonus material etc. I just wanna watch the movie! Any feedback? As it stands now, it appears that it's going to take upwards of 12 hrs to copy this movie

[qbs.cn]

Hi soberjohn23
Post your internal log would be great, please find that:
on Win7 C:\Users\User Name\My Documents\DVDFab\Log
on Vista C:\Users\User Name\Documents\DVDFab\Log
on XP C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents\DVDFab\Log.
Joe

[Blazkowicz]

Please recheck DMA settings (drive is probably in PIO mode).

[soberjohn23]

so where do I find/change that?

[soberjohn23]

Wher do I check the DMA settings? And what mode do I set my drive in? Right now, doing THIS particular movie is making my computer freakishly slow. Never done this before. My computer still VERY new and has some SERIOUS hardware to support all this. I've gotten all blu-ray movies (until this one) tp "back-up" within the 40-ish minute range

[Blazkowicz]

In settings (green arrow) -> General -> Reset DMA.

Log files:
C:\Documents and Settings\your username\My Documents\DVDFab\Log
C:\users\your username\My Documents\DVDFab\Log

[soberjohn23]

thank you. So far it seems to have helped. pc going faster now. restarting backup copy now

[soberjohn23]

yeah, no... my cpu's going ok, but it's still gonna take like 12+ hrs to backup movie. ???? WTF?

[Blazkowicz]

And your log files?

[soberjohn23]

uuuhhh... let's see,

video encode bitrate (23291 kbps)
source ( 00010.m2ts )
CUDA GPU acceleration for video encoding enabled

Is this what you're talking about?

[soberjohn23]

okay... HERE'S the log files



DVDFab 8.0.6.8 (2011/01/08 00:31:11)

0m 03.05s: option dvd2dvd 1 dvd2mobile 1 bluray2bluray 1 bd2mobile 1 bd23d 1 bd2dvd 1 file2mobile 1 filemover 1
0m 11.65s: detected blu-ray
0m 11.65s: drive F
0m 11.65s: blu-ray type 1
0m 11.65s: volume label THE_AMERICAN
0m 14.83s: root 8CD39B9150F20D15_VOLUME_SET_ID:THE_AMERICAN:THE_AM ERICAN:THE_AMERICAN
0m 15.55s: aacs 1 bd+ 0
0m 16.73s: got discinfo
0m 16.86s: got bdmv
0m 16.86s: got agid 0
0m 16.87s: sent host cert chal
0m 16.89s: got drive cert chal
0m 16.92s: got drive key
0m 17.44s: got host key signature
0m 17.44s: verified drive signature
0m 17.44s: verified host signature
0m 17.48s: sent host signature and key point
0m 17.48s: got bus key
0m 17.48s: got volume id
0m 17.48s: got volume id mac
0m 17.50s: volume id is correct
0m 17.50s: got vid
0m 17.55s: blu-ray 806C6D2A7A7942DE3E655843D8451F02C04B772D
0m 19.20s: D 38415EA1
0m 19.23s: got vuk
0m 19.28s: got unit key 7
0m 33.86s: got extended bdinfo
0m 33.86s: opened blu-ray
5m 18.50s: Blu-ray Copy: Main Movie
5m 18.50s: Source: F:\BDMV\
5m 18.52s: Playlist: 800
5m 18.52s: Chapters: 1 -> 21
5m 18.53s: SourceSize: 27810 MB
5m 18.53s: RemoveHDAudio: 0
5m 18.53s: OutputTarget: BD25
5m 18.55s: OutputVideo: 1080p/i
5m 18.58s: Video reencode bitrate (23291 kbps)
5m 18.58s: compress begin: Blu-ray groups clips(00010.m2ts), playtime(6295664 ms), size(27810 MB)
5m 18.60s: processing source(00010.m2ts)
5m 18.60s: using software decoder(vc1 multi-thread)
5m 19.67s: h264_encode: encode param profile(2) level(41) bitrate(23291)

[johnnykazz4l]

Log files:
C:\Documents and Settings\your username\My Documents\DVDFab\Log
C:\users\your username\My Documents\DVDFab\Log

Navigate to those locations and upload the logs of this project.

[johnnykazz4l]

Navigate to those locations and upload the logs of this project.

I apologize, I didn't see you had posted the log contents.
What is happening is this particular blu-ray was sold on a 50GB disc.
You are putting it onto a 25GB disc, which (even though you only took
the main movie part of it) will not fit directly onto a 25GB disc.

Your log shows that the movie is 27GB and your disc 25GB.

So, what is happening is the movie is re-encoding to fit onto the 25GB
disc WHILE your copying which is not good. Not only does it take FOREVER
it also has your blu-ray drive suffering from unnecessary wear-and-tear.

The answer to your problem is when you're loading the movie in Main Movie mode, select the video and audio you want to copy and at the top of the screen where you select source and target, change your target from your blu-ray drive to a file folder. Then, when it is done copying to your hard-drive, again open DVDFab and where it says source at the top, do not select the main disc, but hit the folder button and find the folder on your hard-drive where you copied the movie. NOW set it to output to your blu-ray drive this time. What this will do is have the ripping of the film and the re-encoding of the film (to fit on your 25GB media) as two separate jobs, thus speeding things up a bit.

A final note is that the re-encoding process ALWAYS depends on what hardware is in your PC, which you say is fairly high quality so I presume that running the ripping and re-encoding as two separate jobs will help you with speed.

EDIT: I gave your log one more quick lookover, and I see that you are leaving the HD Audio intact. If you want the absolute quickest resolution to your problem, try removing the HD Audio as the film may fit onto a 25GB disc without having to re-encode at all. If the HD Audio is very important to you, I would suggest using my solution from this original post by ripping and re-encoding as two separate jobs.

[soberjohn23]

Awsome! Thanks a BUNCH! I gotta print out what you informed me to do with that (as my short memory was smoked away years ago!), but I get it! I had already finished doing it the long way before I saw your post (due dates on materials and work in between), but I will look more closely now in the future now that I know what I'm looking for and try that method of saving it to my hard drive first and THEN burning it to dics afterwards. Again... Thanks so very much!

[johnnykazz4l]

Awsome! Thanks a BUNCH! I gotta print out what you informed me to do with that (as my short memory was smoked away years ago!), but I get it! I had already finished doing it the long way before I saw your post (due dates on materials and work in between), but I will look more closely now in the future now that I know what I'm looking for and try that method of saving it to my hard drive first and THEN burning it to dics afterwards. Again... Thanks so very much!

Not a problem, that's what the forums are for.
Hope you have better luck with the above methods.