Excessive Burn Time

[gmatting]

My frustration meter is just about pegged. As a new user of the DVD Fab trial version, I just can’t seem to figure this out. The tutorial does not address Blu-ray to Blu-ray and is totally useless.

Fifteen hours and ten minutes to copy a disk to my hard drive! Are you kidding me? What happened to the advertised “very fast copying speed?”

I am operating Windows XP and have a Pioneer BD-205 drive; I am using Memorex BD-R 4x-25gb single layer disks. My attempts to backup my Blu-ray Spiderman 3 have been a mess. Either I am not getting it or this is the worst software program ever perpetrated upon mankind.

On my first attempt I tried a full-disk copy. The program told me there was not enough room on the single-layer disk I was using and to insert a double-layer disk. Instead, I then selected the Main Movie option. It advised the copying process had started and that compression was not necessary. Copying the files to the hard drive seemed to work fine. Burning the files to disk, however, was a comedy of errors. After 2 hours, the program announced the burn had been completed successfully. Imagine my surprise to find the disk was completely blank.

I then downloaded ImgBurn as an alternative. The preview showed just fine, indicating the files on the hard drive were OK. When I attempted to start the burn, however, the program advised the files were too big for the available space. But didn't DVD Fab just say no compression was necessary? So why wouldn't it fit? I went ahead anyway and sacrificed the disk to see if it would burn at all. It did. Excellent quality picture . . . just not the whole movie.

ImgBurn apparently does not compress anything so the key is to get DVD Fab to work properly. I erased everything and started over. There is a block at the lower left of the screen which was set for BD-50. I reasoned this must refer to the recording medium so I changed it to BD-25. The burn to hard drive was incredibly slow. I let it run overnight just to see how long it would take. Next morning it was still churning away, finally completing the process after 15:10. Totally unacceptable.

This time the ImgBurn process went well – I had a complete movie! But 15 hours 10 minutes? What am I doing wrong?

Matt



Internal Log:

DVDFab 6.2.1.8 (2010/02/05 22:27:44)

0m 01.65s: option dvd2dvd 1 dvd2mobile 1 bluray2bluray 1 file2mobile 1 filemover 1
0m 33.43s: detected blu-ray
0m 33.45s: drive D
0m 33.45s: volume label 80256984_SPIDER_MAN_3
0m 39.60s: root 60432591_SPIDER_MAN_3:80256984_SPIDER_MAN_3:SPIDER _MAN_3:SPIDER_MAN_3
0m 40.75s: aacs 1 bd+ 0
0m 41.84s: got discinfo
0m 41.95s: got bdmv
0m 41.98s: got agid
0m 42.04s: sent host cert chal
0m 42.06s: got drive cert chal
0m 42.12s: got drive key
0m 42.12s: got host key signature
0m 42.12s: verified drive signature
0m 42.12s: verified host signature
0m 42.18s: sent host signature and key point
0m 42.18s: got bus key
0m 42.82s: got volume id
0m 42.82s: got volume id mac
0m 42.82s: volume id is correct
0m 42.84s: got vid
0m 43.18s: got vuk
0m 43.23s: got unit key 1
0m 46.68s: got extended bdinfo
7m 24.79s: playlist 1 playlen 8351
7m 24.81s: pid 4113 cbr 0 vbr 26984
7m 24.81s: pid 4352 cbr 824 vbr 4414
7m 24.81s: pid 4353 cbr 4886 vbr 0
7m 24.81s: pid 4354 cbr 716 vbr 0
7m 24.81s: pid 4355 cbr 716 vbr 0
7m 24.81s: pid 4356 cbr 716 vbr 0
7m 24.82s: pid 4357 cbr 716 vbr 0
7m 24.82s: pid 4358 cbr 238 vbr 0
7m 24.82s: pid 4359 cbr 238 vbr 0
7m 24.82s: pid 4608 cbr 0 vbr 31
7m 24.82s: pid 4609 cbr 0 vbr 27
7m 24.82s: pid 4610 cbr 0 vbr 26
7m 24.82s: pid 4611 cbr 0 vbr 30
7m 24.84s: pid 4612 cbr 0 vbr 21
7m 24.84s: pid 4613 cbr 0 vbr 28
7m 24.84s: pid 4614 cbr 0 vbr 30
7m 24.84s: pid 4615 cbr 0 vbr 27
7m 24.84s: pid 4616 cbr 0 vbr 28
7m 24.85s: pid 4617 cbr 0 vbr 83
7m 24.85s: pid 4618 cbr 0 vbr 82
7m 24.85s: pid 4619 cbr 0 vbr 64
7m 24.85s: pid 4620 cbr 0 vbr 82
7m 24.85s: pid 4621 cbr 0 vbr 78
7m 24.93s: pid 4622 cbr 0 vbr 92
7m 24.93s: pid 4623 cbr 0 vbr 89
7m 24.95s: pid 4624 cbr 0 vbr 59
7m 24.95s: pid 4625 cbr 0 vbr 87
7m 24.95s: pid 4626 cbr 0 vbr 100
7m 24.95s: pat/pmt/sit 65
7m 24.95s: pcr 1
7m 24.95s: non video 10729
7m 24.95s: video reencode bitrate 12303523
7m 25.01s: CUDA GPU Acceleration start ...
914m 37.15s: filter(3 m:4): not get decoded frame(200229-3)
954m 54.68s: detected blu-ray
954m 54.71s: drive D
954m 54.71s: volume label 80256984_SPIDER_MAN_3
954m 59.17s: root 3C45B0A40127722F:80256984_SPIDER_MAN_3:80256984_SP IDER_MAN_3:80256984_SPIDER_MAN_3
954m 59.25s: aacs 0 bd+ 0
954m 59.26s: got discinfo
954m 59.39s: got bdmv
954m 59.51s: got extended bdinfo


Burn Log:


2010-02-05 21:11:03 ---- ******************** Log session stop 05-Feb 21:11:03.187 PID 1964********************
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info Current Drive selected : 0:1:0 - PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 1.03 [D] (Ide)
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info Using Advanced SPTI interface
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info System default language : English (United States)
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info User default language : English (United States)
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info DLL Version : 4.0.5.464
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info DLL : C:\Program Files\DVDFab 6\vso_hwe.dll
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info Version : 6, 2, 1, 8
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info ExeName : C:\Program Files\DVDFab 6\DVDFab.exe
2010-02-05 21:05:34 Info OS : Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Build 2600: Service Pack 3)
2010-02-05 21:05:34 ---- ******************** Log session start 05-Feb 21:05:34.546 PID 1964********************

[AGJ]

Nothing wrong as you just might have a slow computer and that is the normal time for a slow computer. Maybe post the computer specs and someone could tell you if that is a reasonable time for the computer. Another thing you could do is try resetting the DMA to see if that helps with the time

[CBR929]

gmatting you also might want to update your drives firmware http://www.firmwarehq.com/Pioneer/BDR-205/files.html

[gmatting]

Thanks AGJ. Checked my DMA settings. The primary is already set for DMA, Ultra DMA Mode 2. Problem. Device manager doesn't show a secondary IDE channel. How can that be?

[Boston Joe]

What processor are you running? Quad core is the way to go for compression. Anything less and this is your issue.

[Complication]

The process was slow because of the CPU time to compress to BD25. Your drive settings are probably fine. You can test this by ripping to BD50 and select the hard drive as the destination. It should take under an hour for a full BD.

You can then use the hard drive copy as the source to create the BD25 which will still take 12+ hours unless you have a very new and fast PC. Things like quad cores, I7, large amount of RAM, and supported GPU would cut that time considerably. The amount of information on a full BD is rather large and cutting it down to size takes a lot of CPU horsepower and time.