How long to compress a DL to SL Blu-ray?

[jcpriest]

Hi everyone,
I just picked up the LG BH10LS30 burner and was able to backup my Hurt Locker blu-ray. It took 48 mins to rip to the HDD and took 13+ hours to compress the 33GB movie file to 23.7GB in order to burn to a SL bd-r. My computer is 3 years old. AMD athlon +3800 dual core with 3GB of ram and Windows 7 Utimate x64. Is this an average compression time? or are the rest of you compressing much faster?
TIA,
John

[arthurdrummond]

That sounds about right. It takes my E8400 dual core @3Ghz about 4 hours. The CPU is everything in this regard. The faster, the better.

[rizzo7883]

I did that exact movie the same way and burned to BD-R single layer media in 3 hrs. I have AMD X2 2.7ghz, 6 ram, and a HD6550 video card that uses acceleration.

[rizzo7883]

I found another Bly-ray compressing app. that will compress the whole disc menu and all. it is free but, you still need to use the GREAT DVDFABHD to remove protection. I don't want to say more because of a possible rule violation. The only reason I am saying this is because DVDFABHD will only compress the movie only . not menus, yet anyhow.

[Bob78634]

Whaqt is it???

Don't tease us. What is it??? Thanks

[AGJ]

This the DVDFab forum and mentioning competitor programs is not allowed here and rizzo7883 is correct about a violation if mentioned

[jcpriest]

My GPU is a crappy stock nvidia 6100. Will upgrading the video card/GPU greatly increase compression times or is it entirely dependant upon CPU power?

[bmiller]

I have a dual core 2.7ghz intel, with an nvidia 6200 and 4GB of ram of which Windows xp only sees 2GB and can do the same thing in 4-4.5 hrs. 13 hrs. is a bit long.

[rschildt]

Before upgrading my PC, I had a P4 630 (3.0 GHz) w/ 2.5GB Ram & a ATI x1650 graphics card. Compressing BD50 to BD 25 (Star Trek) took ~23 hrs.

Upgraded the graphics card to a nVidia GT 240 (~$99) w/ CUDA GPU acceleration took it down to 13+ hrs.

Now, toss in a new motherboard (Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P - $125) and a Quad Core Q9550 ($225) and compression is down to ~1hr 15min.

That's about as good as I can get until software improvements are made (if any). But I can live with it now!