That sure sounds long. I use an Athlon XP 3200 and it will do a typical movie using HC in about 3 hours. Your computer should be a lot faster than mine...
Things to check:
1. USB-2 connected drives are a lot slower than ATA or SATA.
2. A drive that is withing 10-15% of capacity slows down considerably because of O/S overhead.
3. A fragmented drive is much, much slower than one that has been defragged.
4. Reading directly from the disc (using AnyDVD) can make your encode take as much as twice as long as first ripping it and reading it from hard drive.
5. Running other processes during encoding can really slow it down, especially if you are using IDLE priority.
Things to check:
1. USB-2 connected drives are a lot slower than ATA or SATA.
2. A drive that is withing 10-15% of capacity slows down considerably because of O/S overhead.
3. A fragmented drive is much, much slower than one that has been defragged.
4. Reading directly from the disc (using AnyDVD) can make your encode take as much as twice as long as first ripping it and reading it from hard drive.
5. Running other processes during encoding can really slow it down, especially if you are using IDLE priority.
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