How long is too long?

[ChazinCT]

I'd prefer a fix to the poor performance I get from this product.

[90312]

ChazinCT, if you don't like the feedback you get from fellow users here on the forum I can fix that for you!

[ChazinCT]

There you have it, broderp. Signals told you up front this shouldn't be so slow (at 10 Mb/sec, a movie should convert in 30-40 min). But, the end advice here is "live with it."

The analogy here would be buying a sports car, having it only go 45 miles per you and having a mechanic tell you, "don't drive with passengers and stay in the right lane!"

[90312]

That's the best help Marty, compress the main movie to BD25 and forget full disc.

[martythebrit]

GregiBoy has a good point. If there is no compression, why don't you use the external drive to copy the disk to the computer, it seems quicker?

[martythebrit]

I really don't see why anyone would want to compress the whole disk. If there are any extra's on the disk I'll watch them once, if at all, then I will just watch the actual movie after that point. I only ever backup the main movie to BD25 or rip to the media player.

[90312]

I got no help to give dude! I can compress main movie only to BD25 in about 40 minutes or so. If I try to compress full disc to BD25 it takes closer to 4 hours and I don't know why. If you insist on compressing the full disc to BD25 then deal with it.

[ChazinCT]

I can see the same level of help here that I also have never got!

Two thoughts:

1) In my experience, its not the external drive. I bought a second one - different brand - and got the same performance. Also, if you copy to your hard drive at BD50 and then convert to BD25 in another directory on the hard drive, it will probably be just as slow. It is for me.

2) the good news is - 50GB media prices are coming down and you may find its worth it to pay the extra money for the 50Gb discs and skip compression altogether. Since making archive copies of my movies takes 5 to 12 hours and I've gotten no real help here figuring out why. That's the way I'm going.

Good Luck!

[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!

[martythebrit]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[martythebrit]

Your CPU has Quick Sync, are you using it?

[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?