How long is too long?

[broderp]

I am wondering what the average time is to copy a Blu-ray? As a noob to the Blu-Ray backup, I am extremely surprised how long the process takes.

I backed up SILENT HILL Revelation and aside from the program hanging 3-4 times , when it finally started to work it took about 4-5 hours to encode the movie and burn it to Blu-Ray.

I know there are a lot of variables, but man this is slow! I tried to create an iso, but it never ever started the process, it just locked up my PC. (I waited about 30 minutes with absolutely NO change, no timers counting or anything. I had to kill the program using windows task manager.

I finally backed it up to my HDD and it took over 4 hours to do this. I selected movie only and I did have to recode it for a 25GB disc. Burning the Blu-ray took about 20 minutes @ 4x (as read by DVDFab).

I have a new PC, ASUS ET2701INT Core i7 3770S @3.1Ghz, WIN8 x64, 8GB Ram, NVIDIA GeForge GT Graphics w/ 1GB memory, Int. Blu-ray/DVD combo, Ext. ASUS Blu-ray burner, 1TB HDD. I can't imagine I'm the slow link here.

Is this typical? I'm also real concerned about the locking up issues. I also find the new interface a bit confusing, so there may be some operator error! lol

[GregiBoy]

Honestly I would suspect Windoze 8 as part of the problem. Fab is not the only software vendor to have problems running under Win 8.

[signals]

broderp

What you are experiencing is too long. May be win8 as Greg suggests or something else, but DVDFab running on a similar laptop under win7 can read and decrypt a Blu-ray at 10MB/s or faster in many cases. Sounds like your speeds are much slower. Try updating to v9.0.3.9 Beta to see if there is any improvement. Post the internal log file if not.

[broderp]

broderp

What you are experiencing is too long. May be win8 as Greg suggests or something else, but DVDFab running on a similar laptop under win7 can read and decrypt a Blu-ray at 10MB/s or faster in many cases. Sounds like your speeds are much slower. Try updating to v9.0.3.9 Beta to see if there is any improvement. Post the internal log file if not.

OK, baby steps please. Can you point me to the log file or wher I can read up on this?

I am running 9.0.3.8, I will see if I can update to the beta after work. I only have days to resolve this beofe my trial runs out and I either do or do not buy this. I had good luck with DVDFab 8 in the past on my old system. Would be a shame. If it takes so much time and labor to back up my Blu-ray's for the kids, I'd almost rather buy a second copy than go thru this for every disk they borrow. lol...

[90312]

broderp, read this before posting again:

Thread closed.

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You do not have to pay to upgrade to v9! Any license you have for v8 will transfer to v9 using the new registration system. Take your time, follow these steps (internet connection required):

1. If you do not already have one, create an account using the same email address you used to purchase DVDFab at the Member Center, here: . Finish activating the account. You will need access to the email you used to create it.

2. Open DVDFab v9 on your PC. Click on the "?" in the upper right and select "Register". Enter the email and password you used at the Member Center.

After you finish registering, click the "?" again and select "Open Log Folder" from the list. Open the folder and you will see the internal log. You can open it with Notepad to copy and paste a log session into a post. The newest entries will be at the bottom.

[90312]

I've reopened this thread because I may have misunderstood the "borrow" comment. Please explain.

[broderp]

I've reopened this thread because I may have misunderstood the "borrow" comment. Please explain.

Private email sent.

Yes, by borrow I mean I let my kids borrow the disc so they don't leave them around and damage them! Sorry for the confusion!

[Jerrinfla]

External DVD drives are horrendously slow compared to internal drives.That could certainly be the root of you problem, although poor quality media can be as bad or worse. Your pc is pretty new, right? It must have an internal DVD burner, no?

[martythebrit]

Your CPU has Quick Sync, are you using it?

[broderp]

Your CPU has Quick Sync, are you using it?

Not sure. Remember, my old laptop was an Intel Cereon...a lot has changed! How can I tell if I'm using Quick Sync?

External DVD drives are horrendously slow compared to internal drives.That could certainly be the root of you problem, although poor quality media can be as bad or worse. Your pc is pretty new, right? It must have an internal DVD burner, no?

The slow part was backing up the disc to the hard drive. It took the 4-5 hours to backup the files (in BD format/ folders). I WAS using my PC's internal Blu-Ray/DVD combo drive for this. So it can't the the issue.

Burning the movie from my HDD to my external 6x USB BD Burner only took 20-30 minutes to write to a 25GB Vertbatim Blu-ray disc. I'm just fine with that speed.

I would have prefered an ISO copy of the movie, but DVDFab would not do it, but thats another story.

I only get to play with this on weekends....and my trial time is running out. Sure hope I can resolve this. Not sure I want to buy $200 licence and know I have to wait 4-5 hours for each disc Ibackup in my collection.

[GregiBoy]

Were you compressing to the HDD from BD50 to BD25? If so I'd find this time normal.

Once you invoke ANY compression the time will zoom up. This then becomes dependent upon the power of your machine.

[90312]

broderp, if going to BD25 try "Main Movie" I can do that in less than an hour, but if I select full disc it takes an age, many hours.

[martythebrit]

What happens if you select Quick Sync in DVDFab and do a recode?

[ChazinCT]

I've had the same issue (see post - ) and have tried unsuccessfully for quite some time to get it resolved. I've had the same speeds on Windows 7 and 8 and have 2 different burners - pretty much same results.

If you get any help - I'd love to know!