What Would Make Saving Movie Files Faster?

[Guest]

Hi!

My pc is an Athlon 2500/1.86gHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and a GeForce 6600 GT
OC / 128MB GDDR3 video card running Windows XP SP2.

I have a 17 minute 43 second file in WMM2 that when I save to a WMV file to
a hard drive, it takes almost an hour, fifty minutes if nothing is running
and I leave the pc alone for the duration. Before the file starts writing,
the system's CPU Usage is under 5%, and the commit charge of memory is
usually 400-500M/5531M. The drive the file is being written to is not the
drive XP is installed on, and not the drive where the temp files are put.
Every hard drive in the pc has more than 30GB of free space.

Is this about the correct/average/expected time for this take?

What needs to be changed to decrease the time it takes to create a movie to
disc?

Thanks!!!!

Paul

 

[RalfG]

All things being equal, the amount of time it takes to process a video will
vary inversely with the computer's processor power. Videos that used to take
up to 4 hours to process on my 900Khz P3 (640MB RAM) take under 30 minutes
on this 3.2Ghz HT P4 (1GB RAM). They took about 40 minutes on a 2Ghz Athlon
with 512MB RAM. The graphics card isn't involved in the file conversion
process and any other hardware you might upgrade could only have minimal
effect (think seconds, not minutes).

Aside from the relative efficiency of any particular software package you
might use for the job, the bitrate and resolution settings will affect how
long it may take to complete. Higher bitrates give better quality video at
the expense of larger file sizes and longer processing time. Changing the
dimensions of the video also adds to the overall processing time.

 

[Vojtch Pokorn?]

Year ago two minute film took about one hour to save. But now it is worse. It always get jamned on three percents. I don't know why.

 

[Jerry]

Check with your ISP.