Very Slow Encoding Speed

[NikonUser]

Hi there,

I have just started using the dCW to burn my flac files to CD.

However this process seems VERY slow. It encodes at only 4x.

I have an Intel Q6600 CPU with 8GB ram. When using the CD ripper and other db products it encodes MUCH quicker.

EDIT: When I convert from FLAC to WAV using dbConverter (which is I assume what the cdWriter is doing?) I get an encoding speed of around 160x

Is there a setting somewhere I am missing?

Thanks
Paul

[Spoon]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

The actual CD writing is dependant on CD writer drive speed.

[NikonUser]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

It's not the writing speed that is slow, but the encoding speed when it converts from flac to wav in preparation for burning.

[Spoon]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

The frequency of the source file is 44.1KHz and 16 bit 2 channel?

[NikonUser]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

The frequency of the source file is 44.1KHz and 16 bit 2 channel?

Yep. Just a standard FLAC file made from a CD.

In DbPoweramp Converter the same file encodes to .wav at around 140x

Also, when using the CDWriter to encode the flacs...CPU utilization is very low. Around 3%

Paul

[Spoon]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

Sorry I have no idea why it is running slow on your system.

[mtreloar]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

Same problem. I have Reference Version 14 and an Asus G73Jh quad core w lots of memory. Very fast on encoding to FLAC. All 8 cores used. Desperately slow going from FLAC to audio (not data) CD. Nero does it in 2 minutes or less.

[mc_frink87]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

Same problem. I have Reference Version 14 and an Asus G73Jh quad core w lots of memory. Very fast on encoding to FLAC. All 8 cores used. Desperately slow going from FLAC to audio (not data) CD.

+1 - Same problem. CPU usage on my Q6600 stuck at ~4%, with antivirus disabled. Can't seem to work this one out... :confused:

[etjw]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

I have this same problem since upgrading to R14. If I am lucky it will encode at 2x. Unusable!

[Spoon]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

Previously you were using which version (which presumably was fast)?

[pfeerick]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

Sorry to double-post (previously posted under CW Writer v3.2 beta release thread), but this is the same problem I was reporting there... Namely, I'm running CD Writer R3.2 on Windows 7 Professional SP1 with the 18-MAR-2011 release of dBpoweramp R14.1 beta, and it's taking a long (longer than normal conversions) to convert files to the temporary format (wav?) needed by CD Writer... it's using almost no CPU on a i5 with 2 cores (4 with hyper-threading), and taking 30ish seconds (about the time taken to encode an entire 20-25 track album, let alone two tracks) to transcode two mp3s ?!

Screenshot here

Also two questions... when erasing CD-RWs, will you be adding the option to quick erase as well as current default of full erase? And am I right in presuming that CD-TEXT is still not supported?

Thanks,
-Peter

[Spoon]

Re: Very Slow Encoding Speed

>Also two questions... when erasing CD-RWs, will you be adding the option to quick erase
> as well as current default of full erase? And am I right in presuming that CD-TEXT is still
>not supported?

It is not currently planned to add these