Multiple Burners, different content

[CaptRR]

Hell all,

 

I am hoping you can help me. I record baseball games and then sell them to the parents. Previous years, my workflow was like this. 1. Take mpeg2 file home 2. make a dvd iso image 3. Fulfill dvd orders from the iso file one at a time (using imgburn).

 

I want to do something different, I want to do everything on site, and with little human intervention. I have figured out how to automate the capture and creation of the dvdiso file. And getting the iso to disk is as simple as running a batch script to get imgburn to burn the iso file.

 

Now the problem. Time is of the essence, each baseball game consists of two dvd's. Using one dvd burner, takes 5 - 8 minutes a disk, so 10 - 16 min minimum for one game, and I usually like to lite scribe my disks, so they look good. What I want to do is throw multiple dvd burners at the problem. Perhaps as many as 4, I have already built the robot to change the disks, so thats not a problem, but even with SATA I am worried that the hard drive will not be able to keep up, perhaps a raid array?

 

Also I do not know what kind of issues imgburn will have running multiple instances of itself.

 

I am also considering throwing multiple computers at the problem, with a really fast network to distribute out the img files.

 

Any help in these matters, or thoughts would be helpful.

[mmalves]

ImgBurn wasn't designed for simultaneously burning with multiple burners. Since time matters you'd be better off using a DVD duplication tower.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

I was burning to 3 drives at the same time the other day - using a (physically) different hdd as the source for each one. That worked fine.

[CaptRR]

ImgBurn wasn't designed for simultaneously burning with multiple burners. Since time matters you'd be better off using a DVD duplication tower.

 

The duplication tower is a good idea, except I am burning different content for different people. i.e. One person may want one game, which required two different dvd's, and the other may want a different game which required 2 other dvds. So up to 4 different dvd's at a time.

 

I am thinking of using some cheap mini-itx boards, create a central server for all the iso's, and just before burning copy the image to the individual computers. I could also cache the iso's so the ones that are used most will not have to redownload, but I would at least like to get away with two drives a computer.