Okay so I go out and buy a hp dvd840i with lightscribe went to copy a movies and it says 6 hours till its done!!! All the firmware/drivers are up to dat I dont know what else to check Im using nero 6 BTW
2006-07-11 10:59:23 · 3 answers · asked by chaostheory17 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Okay..
What are you copying movies with? Nero?? NO.
Instead, you should be copying your movies with DVDShrink, available here http://www.dvdshrink.org/
The easiest setting is to select "Create ISO" as your target format.
Finally, Open Nero Burning Rom, cancel the "New Compilation:" screen and select "Burn Image" from Nero's file menu, select the newly created ISO and click "Burn".
It sounds like you're trying to copy "on the fly", which is taxing your system resources.
Any additional questions, or need for explanations, write me.
2006-07-17 18:10:23 · answer #1 · answered by deidonis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could be many reasons it's saying 6 hours.
1: If you have the version of Nero that either came installed on your computer or was included with a purchased drive, the writing speed is limited to the SLOWEST write speed by default. Only a PURCHASED version of Nero will allow you to copy at the faster speeds.
2: Copying also depends on your computer's CPU speed and amount of RAM.
3: The speed of the DVD blank discs you're using.
4: The writing speed of your DVD burner.
5: If you are attempting to copy a commercial DVD movie Nero will NOT copy it since it is most likely copy protected. So it may be giving you a false writing time, I have seen this many times myself and from others. But once it's starts attempting to copy you'll get an error message sometime during the copy process when it comes across a segment of the copy protection.
6: Even if the DVD movie is not protected and you can copy it, it may be a dual layer DVD which is 8.4 GIGABYTE so referring to reasons 1,2,3 & 4 above it may very well take that long
2006-07-11 11:55:30 · answer #2 · answered by mrresearchman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a very resource intensive operation. If you have a slow hard drive or not much memory it could take quite awhile. Try upgrading your RAM , this will be the cheapest and easiest thing you can do.
2006-07-11 11:05:49 · answer #3 · answered by EG345 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋