Truly "on the fly"??

[Gambit7]

Okay... I got an HP DVD burner for x-mas and am runnin it with my ol' trusty Creative DVD-Rom.
currently, I'm usin DVD shrink with DVD43, and nero to burn.

I've perused many of the threads here and NONE I have found really explain it properly how to truly burn a DVD on the fly. Obviously using shrink it encodes and saves to disk before Nero burns it. SOME time is saved using DVD43 in the background, but it's still takin between 20-40 mins to rip and burn.

I'd LIKE to simply be able to have shrink encode it and the burn software burn it simultaneously so I dont have to wait for the entire film to encode. Is there a way to do this??

Of course, it's possible in Nero to burn on the fly... BUT, it cant defeat the copy protection or the large file sizes... so no go with that.

I dont care if it's freeware or not... just want an easy solution; put DVD in DVD-ROM, put blank in DVD burner... click and burn.

[blutach]

No. The shrinking has to finish first.

Regards

[Gambit7]

Is there any other software out there that will shrink and burn at the same time??

[blutach]

No, it needs to finish and create its IFOs. It can not do this on the fly.

Regards

[Gambit7]

so what's a normal encoding time for a movie like say "Seabiscuit".. mine is around 35 minutes. Im on a striped RAID with a 12X DVD-ROM. My DMAs are all ultra and the DVD-ROM is master. any other way to speed this up? perhaps setting the process to primary?

[blutach]

That seems about right. It depends on the number of frames, compression, whether you use deep analysis and AEC (better quality settings).

I have the writer on master - it's not for timing though.

Regards

[Gambit7]

Yah.. my actual total processing time was 30 mins. If I had a high def. or plasma/LCD TV I'd probably use the higher settings. As well, perhaps movies lilke Matrix, LoTR, and SW would be better served by it. Is there really a noticeable difference with deep analysis and AEC?

[drfsupercenter]

Gambit, there are some copying machines that can shrink and burn in one step. My friend has one. Downside is they run in the hundreds of dollars range.

[blutach]

Yes, the DA/AEC does produce noticeable difference, especially on large screens. On a small screen (17" or below), it's probably not worth it.

Regards

[Gambit7]

I actually have my DVD-writer slaved to my ol' trusty TDK CD-writer (best piece of hardware I've ever bought). Reason being is I dont want to add wear n' tear on the DVD-writer. So far it seems to be workin real well. The cd-writer mastered to the secondary enables me to do real fast on the fly from the DVD-Rom on primary. Since the RAID is on a PCI slot the HDDs dont interfere.
No point in givin the DVD-writer its own slot since there's no on the fly capability.