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Handbrake taking over 12 hours?

G5Unit

G5Unit

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I have a Single 1.8Ghz PowerMac G5 and it is taking over 12 hours to convert a 1 hour and 40 minute DVD to iPhone quality. Last time i did this, about to months ago, it would only take about 2 hours.

What's wrong?
 
There could be something wrong with the DVD. Check to see if it's scratched or smudged.
 
The DVD drive is barely making any noise, as if it's spinning very slow. It's as if it's not even trying/:

And it's the newest version of handbrake.
 
No solution? It actually now takes about 30 hours per encode. This is crazy.

It's going at 3 fps!
 
Check Activity Monitor out. Is handbrake using up 100% of your spare CPU cycles? If so, then there is something very wrong. Perhaps there is a stray app taking up all your cycles?
 
Are you sure you're using the same rip settings as you did when it took 2 hours? The settings you choose can have a massive impact on the amount of time a rip takes.
 
mikeyredk said:
An hour? what are you using to transfer it with?

Recommend using OSEx to transfer it on to your computer takes me 20 minutes tops
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I'm starting to think something is wrong with my drive? It's so quite, as if it's not spinning very hard,
 
It can take some time with mac the ripper depending on the copy-protection added to the dvd. some only take about thirty minutes others take waaaay longer.
 
I use mac the ripper first and then handbrake. On my macbook book it takes about 2 hours on the apple tv setting.
 
Some DVD's insert a ton of bad sectors to try and stop people from ripping the DVD and it really screws with things. If the DVD is scratched that could do the same thing. It's just like when you try to rip a scratch CD with error correction. It can take a long time and it is much much smaller than a DVD.

Try two more DVD's maybe a really old DVD and a really new DVD. If those both take a really long time to rip then you've got enough of a pattern to suggest it is the drive. Otherwise it is just a couple of nasty DVD's.
 
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