Taking way to long to copy blu rays!

[romanjamm]

I have only copied 3 blu ray movies using DVDFAB8:

How to Train Your Dragon: Worked Great & Just a little over an hour for everything.

Winter's Bones: Again Worked Great.

Brooklyn's Finest: Literally Took Over 5 Hours for Everything.

Gladiator Sapphire Series: Taking over 30 minutes just to analyze. I'm guessing Over 6 Hours for this movie.


What am I doing wrong???

Please Help!!!


PS: I was using the latest official release of DVDFAB8 and then when I started experiencing problems I updated to the newest beta release. Using either version I have experienced these problems.

Also, I am using a LG WH10LS30K 10X Blu-ray Burner that was just recently purchased and my system is Windows XP Pro SP3, 3.1GHz Duel Core Proc. and 3GB of Ram. i have had no problems with my system doing anything. It's actually pretty darn fast as it is relatively new.

Thanks.

[Bendit]

It is NORMAL for it to take hours if DVDFab needs to compress your movie to fit on a single-layer BD-R disc.

[romanjamm]

It is NORMAL for it to take hours if DVDFab needs to compress your movie to fit on a single-layer BD-R disc.

Honestly, I just spent over $200 for a burner, software, discs, jewel cases etc. so that I can copy a blu ray movie in 7 hours?

The copy process says that it is only copying at somewhere between 1.2 and 2.1 MB's per second. How could that possibly be correct?

[signals]

That does seem slow, but remember that Blu-rays have much more data than a standard DVD. Speeds of 3-4 MB/s are more common, and some systems are even faster. A CUDA-capable nvidia graphics card would probably speed it up some, or for about $12 you can try CoreAVC software that will speed up decoding of h264AVC encoded discs. Check to see if DVDFab found any graphics acceleration available on your PC on the "A/V Codec" page in DVDFab Common Settings.

[morcosd]

Using Nvidia GF 285 GTX I average 1/2 hour per Blu-Ray movie. A few are done in 20 min some in 40 but those are the exception.

[romanjamm]

That does seem slow, but remember that Blu-rays have much more data than a standard DVD. Speeds of 3-4 MB/s are more common, and some systems are even faster. A CUDA-capable nvidia graphics card would probably speed it up some, or for about $12 you can try CoreAVC software that will speed up decoding of h264AVC encoded discs. Check to see if DVDFab found any graphics acceleration available on your PC on the "A/V Codec" page in DVDFab Common Settings.

Honestly, a lot of this is over my head. I'm pretty sure my motherboard has on board graphics though.

I just don't understand how I can do 1 movie in an hour and a half and the next in what looks like is going to be more like 8 hours now.

It is a 2 hour and 50 minute movie, but still had I known that this was going to happen, I don't think I would have spent this money. Oh well.

[Racem22]

Its because of the compression man. If the movie doesn't need compression to be under a BD-25, it won't compress it, therefore your time will be just to rip the movie to your hard drive. But if it is compressing, it will take much longer. Also, rip the movie to your hard drive first, leaving the setting on BD-50 so it doesn't compress, then when it's done, select the ripped folder as the source and a different internal hard drive(if you have one) as the target, then select your output preference(BD-25, etc.) and compress. This should go a little quicker.

[romanjamm]

Its because of the compression man. If the movie doesn't need compression to be under a BD-25, it won't compress it, therefore your time will be just to rip the movie to your hard drive. But if it is compressing, it will take much longer. Also, rip the movie to your hard drive first, leaving the setting on BD-50 so it doesn't compress, then when it's done, select the ripped folder as the source and a different internal hard drive(if you have one) as the target, then select your output preference(BD-25, etc.) and compress. This should go a little quicker.

thanks

[AGJ]

PS: I was using the latest official release of DVDFAB8 and then when I started experiencing problems I updated to the newest beta release. Using either version I have experienced these problems.

The latest Beta is old install the latest Official release that has been available since October 30, 2010 only released 3 hours apart but the latest official is newer and more updates added to it than the beta you are using

[romanjamm]

The latest Beta is old install the latest Official release that has been available since October 30, 2010 only released 3 hours apart but the latest official is newer and more updates added to it than the beta you are using

thx again

[romanjamm]

guys, when you have a chance.


My 8 hour Gladiator copy hit a snag. I had fallen asleep and my kids closed down the program after it had copied all the files into a temp folder. I never was able to insert the writable media and now I have no idea how to start writing the disc.

It appears to me that I have a 22 Gig temp file in the dvdfab folder that is in my documents and settings folder.

Can someone kindly explain or walk through what I have to do to start writing that file to a blank bd-r. Hopefully it's still possible at this point.

Thanks very much.

[Racem22]

romanjamm: Oh yes, of course it is. That's basically what DVDFab is doing, just in an automated process. First of all, I would highly suggest doing it this way every time, but its up to you.
1. Download and install the free program called Imgburn if you don't have it.
2. Start up Imgburn and click the "Write Files/Folders to disc" button
3. Locate the Blu-ray that you have ripped, but not burned (there should be a folder with the movies name, then inside that there should be a BDMV and a CERTIFICATE folder)
4. Drag and drop the whole Blu-ray folder into Imgburn(the folder with the movies name on it)
5. Click the button at the bottom which is basically the "Start" button
6. There will be a couple of dialog boxes that pop up saying do you want to do this and that(this is basically Imgburn setting up the settings to burn a Blu-ray for you, it detects everything automatically and does everything for you)
7. Thats it, wait for your Blu-ray to get done burning and enjoy!

Like I said, I highly recommend burning with Imgburn everytime, as it's highly reliable and tends to work better than the VSO Burning Engine built into DVDFab

[romanjamm]

thank-you

that was simple


was wondering if other people agreed that using a third party burning engine like this was better than using the vso engine in dvdfab?

[romanjamm]

Actually I cant tell if the movie has finished burning. The last message is finalising disc and it still seems like something is happening but it's been going on 8 minutes now. Should I assume that it's done, I'm afraid to take the disc out.

It says 0% finalizing disc ... at the bottom

[maineman]

was wondering if other people agreed that using a third party burning engine like this was better than using the vso engine in dvdfab?

Yes, no doubt this is a firm consensus among the mods and many of the "regulars" here.