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DVD Architect RAM
Greetings again,
I am creating a DVD using DVDA and it is working just fine.
However, DVDA says it is going to take 6 hours. Upon investigation DVDA is only using 75MB of RAM. I have 4 GB on this machine.
Is there a way to increase the amount of RAM allocated to DVDA?
Or, would it make sense to set up a RAM disk so that all IO is via RAM, not disk?ken wood
camarillo, ca
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7 Replies
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It sounds to me like you’re not feeding DVDA already rendered MPEG-2 & AC-3 files which is why it’s taking so long.
The process is entirely CPU dependent so, if you have a slow machine, it’ll take longer than with something like a quad core.
There’s no way to assign RAM to DVDA that I’m aware of and I don’t think a RAM disk would help either. -
I fed DVDA a .wmv file and let it “Prepare” it. The 6 hours time was bogus. It only took 1:45.
I find it interesting that we keep adding more and more horse power to our computing power but the software, as nice as it is, is not taking advantage of the added power.
It is all IO bound.As always, thanks for you help.
ken wood
camarillo, ca
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Just curious, did you render this wmv file from Vegas?
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Yes.
I’m not sure what the best format to choose but this seemed to come out pretty good on my test DVD.
I testing as a MPG, too.ken wood
camarillo, ca
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If you give DVDA anything but a compliant MPeg2 with AC3 audio it wants to rerender. Your best bet is to render in Vegas to MainConcept DVDA compliant Mpeg2 with a separate AC3 audio render. If they are both placed in the same folder and named the same (test.mpg and test.ac3 for example) DVDA will find the correct audio when you drop the video in and it will not have to rerender it which will save time and resolution.
Try it, I yhink you’ll like it!
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Ken, take a look at my newsletters that deal with making DVDs. WMV is a horrible format to use between Vegas and DVD Architect – it will lose a ton of quality and take a LONG time to render.
Since DVDs *ARE* MPEG2, that’s the format to use from Vegas. A couple of issues deal with going from Vegas to DVD Architect – I think they’re Vol 1 #7 and Vol 4 #1 but that’s just from memory and I can’t be certain those are the exact issue numbers.
Edward Troxel
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Thanks, Ed.
I’ve already proved that the wmv is suckie as I played it on my DVD player. Near the end it just got real bad.
So, mpg it is.
ken wood
camarillo, ca
the states
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