get my pc faster

[chuckskull]

chuckskull - Check out Videohelp.com for guides & programs for coverting from AVI 2 DVD

I know how to do it, he just manages to to do it in half the the time with half the computing power I wanna know how he manages that.

[baby_ice]

WINAVI video converter

[johnny02004976]

gonna give it a look tonight see what load it puts on my CPU - im still under the impression that an extra HD will speed up whilst encoding, but i'll find out tonight

[arthurleung]

I convert DVD to AVI (Rather MKV) at pretty much maximum quality and even with my PD920 @ 4Ghz it tops at 15FPS.

Speed vs quality.

If you're not seeing full CPU usage, may be the converter is not multi-threaded? Try doing 2 conversions at the same time and see if its almost double as fast?

Why don't you burn AVI straight onto DVD? Basically all new DVD Players support MPEG4 and you don't have to convert it back to DVD first.

I assume you also used quick conversion DVD->AVI then again quick conversion AVI->DVD you're losing so much quality you might be better off converting it to VCD.

[chuckskull]

WINAVI video converter

I'll give that a try tonight, if you're quoting the right times I should be able to convert and burn a whole movie in 15minutes

[DanceswithUnix]

Are you converting directly from DVD or ripping to hard drive first?
If you are converting from one hard drive file into another, then you might be limited by the speed the heads can move between the two files.

Just guessing, but it would explain why you can't max out your CPU.

[chuckskull]

WINAVI video converter

He's right it's a lot faster than nero, shame it's only single threaded, but I'm sure the developers will get around to multithreading eventually. Averaging 150-200 FPS, one core maxed out. Nero manages 80-90 with both cores running at 100%.