copy time too long: nero and or dvd shrink

have HP pavilion notebook, celeron 1.8 Ghz, 512 mb ram, 40 gb HD, notebook with toshiba sdr 2312 dvd rom, using for reading dvd, and external type NEC 3500 ag (usb) for burning dvd, with 2.f9 firmware connected temporarily with an usb 1.0 connection. going to usb 2.0 pcmcia card for nec 3500 next week. nero 6 (most current) and dvd shrink (ver 3.17 or 3.2) average 2 1/2 hours - 150 minutes- per backup to either 4 or 8x blank - or + dvd. quality of copies so far is excellent. in device manager for IDE controllers, advanced, transfer mode for 'primary' controller, device '0' have 'dma' set current transfer mode to 'ultra 5 dma mode' and device '1' reads: auto detection , dma if available, curent transfer mode: not available. while secondary controller device setting reads: for '0': 'multi word DMA mode 2' and for '1' auto detection, DMA if available, current transfer mode: not available. please advise what i can do to speed up backup/ burning/ copying. thanks in advance, robert

Cross posting is not allowed... please confine your questions to a single forum.

using dvdv shrink (nero) it takes about three minutes to analyse, 40 to 50 minutes to decrypt and encode, and 1 1/2 hours to burn. for pure nero, it takes about 2 1/2 hours to do all three as they seem to occur as part of a sequence.

Hi. Are you backing up directly from DVD-ROM to DVD+R/RW? As much as I understood, I think you save the files in you HD before. It wolud be interesting to know how fast is your DVD-ROM reading and DVD+R/RW writing... However, Celeron procesors don't have a good performance and think also that you are using a USB 1.1 device, wich is slower than 2.0... that could be a reason why is so slow. Greetings! :)

thanks. no am not backing up directly, as often must encrypt and encode first. though when i do go from dvd rom to dvd r - without encrypt and encode, the time is about the same 100 minutes, however, less the encryption time which is about 30 minutes. i will have to await getting the new external HDD next week (250 gb, 7200rpms and 8mb buffer) (currently using my internal HDD, 4200 rpms and 2 mb buffer) and report back then. and will also be getting the new usb 2.0 pcmcia card. happy new year! robert

If your dvd burner is connected to usb1.1 (1.0 was not relesed),as castellanos stated earlier, you are limited to 12Megabits per second, which will limit you to 1x burning. Nero doesn't report the actual burning speed, just what was selected and allowed by your burner. Usind dvd decrypter will report the actual speed. your burning times should decrease with usb2.0 which has a maximum speed of 480 Megabits per second or about 60 Megabytes per second, should allow to to reach a speed of 16x(22Megabytes per second).

Since this appears to be a burning problem and you already have a duplicate thread in the DVD Burning forum, I'm going to close this one.