Longest time ever

[Marco33]

What is the longest time that your computer has run any sort of dvd stuff, encoding, ripping, burning.

Once I ran tmpegnc for 12 hours.

I have this other mpeg2 file I wanted to reencode down but after I loaded it into tmpegnc it said time remaining 48 hours. That's just too long.

Are you guys hogging your machine up for more that 12 hours at a time?

Is it realy worth putting that hard to find vhs to dvd?

[Bob W]

I use NeoDVD to go from VHS capture and it takes about 30 minutes or less to encode after the capture. I tried using Studio8 and it ran for four hours then just locked up the computer.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Encoding about 8 hours worth of VCD's to put on one DVD was my longest time.Having your CPU usage above 90% for that long is not good,just make sure you have enough cooling fans.

[defense]

Before I upgraded my PC from a PIII, 800 MHZ, I actually had close to 12 hour reencode times with TMPGencPlus as well. I was making SVCD's at the time. That's when I didn't have my DVD BURNER either. I was extremely shocked at how great the quality was and even on my 36' Sony, it's tough to tell MOST of the backups from the originals.

I've since converted MOST of those SVCD's to DVDR's, but the ONLY reason I did so, was because I got picky and didn't want "TWO" cd's for ONE movie. LOL...amazing how when I first started, I really was just happy to be able to backup movies and didn't care if I had to use three cdr's...now I ONLY use ONE DVDR for any ONE DVD.

Anyway, My computer is overclocked at close to 3ghz now and I no longer use TMPGenc because I solely use CCE. Even with my system now, if I ran a 4 PASS VBR, it wouldn't take longer then 6 hours. I usually only run a 1 pass VBR or at the most a 2 pass, depending on the level of action a film has. The results are outstanding to say the least, and I run it no longer then 3 hours at one time.

HOWEVER, when I have a few movies which need encoding, I start the next one up right when one is finished...so it may not be considered consecutively, but I've left my computer reencoding for well over 24 hours using that method.

[tenders]

hahaha got ya all beat! on my ex's 333 p2 it once took me 50hrs. of course i have now found "the force" and average about 11 hrs.

[jeex]

back when i was a newb to the dvd9 to dvdR scene i used rempeg to convert "ghost world", it took like 46 hours..

[i-on-s]

Back in 1994 i had captured a george carlin special on HBO and it was about let say 2hrs roughly and it took 1 week and 3 days to encode to VCD with my P1 133 Dell with 32mb of ram running windows 95 but it didnt effect me cause i was in south carolina on vacation for the summer and i looked at the finish time and i started it on monday the 13th of april (i remember the date cause it was the day after my birthday) and it wasnt done untill saturday the 23rd now that is along time!

[vivisimonvi]

When I first started using these forums in 2000 (back when the domain was vcdhelp.com) I was using DVD2MPEG Squeezer to encode movies in roughly 24 hours on my Inteva PII 366 for VCD...

Now it only takes about 30 minutes on my Vaio 2.4 Ghz, for DVD quality...

[Marco33]

I like putting VHS stuff to DVD but, I have no desire to tie up my machine for more than 9 hours at a clip.

Are we crazy for tying up our machines for 20+ hours at a time?

Do we realy want it that bad...?

I've been caping at low bit rates and just burning to disk. And also toying with dvd2one to quick reencode but it has trouble with big files.

[jeex]

Back in 1994 i had captured a george carlin special on HBO and it was about let say 2hrs roughly and it took 1 week and 3 days to encode to VCD with my P1 133 Dell with 32mb of ram running windows 95 but it didnt effect me cause i was in south carolina on vacation for the summer and i looked at the finish time and i started it on monday the 13th of april (i remember the date cause it was the day after my birthday) and it wasnt done untill saturday the 23rd now that is along time!

how did you capture the video in the first place? vide capture cards werent that prevelant. what format did you capture to? what program did you use to encode to vcd with? how much harddrive space did you have? hell 2 hours would take atleast 1.6gb finished.. i mean, shit the vcd spec was developed in 1993 and cd burners werent even available back then. and windows 95 wasnt available back in 1994 (it was late 1995)..

[JamesB69]

Back in 1994 i had captured a george carlin special on HBO and it was about let say 2hrs roughly and it took 1 week and 3 days to encode to VCD with my P1 133 Dell with 32mb of ram running windows 95 but it didnt effect me cause i was in south carolina on vacation for the summer and i looked at the finish time and i started it on monday the 13th of april (i remember the date cause it was the day after my birthday) and it wasnt done untill saturday the 23rd now that is along time!

how did you capture the video in the first place? vide capture cards werent that prevelant. what format did you capture to? what program did you use to encode to vcd with? how much harddrive space did you have? hell 2 hours would take atleast 1.6gb finished.. i mean, shit the vcd spec was developed in 1993 and cd burners werent even available back then. and windows 95 wasnt available back in 1994 (it was late 1995)..

I thought it sounded kind of fishy. Another thing, is how did you get a comp with Windows 95 to run for 10 days straight? Heck Bill Gates himself cant do that.

Anyways, last year I used my Pentium 200mmx to encode VCD's with TMPG and it would be nothing to take a 125 hours for an encode, that is with highest quality, and some filters. On average though with no filters and highest quality would yield 40 - 50 hours. Our K6-2 500mhz on highest quality again no filters would take about 24 hours. My celeron 600 will do it in about half that, dont ask me why the difference. Lastly, my roommates 1800 athlon xp will do a 2-pass DVD file in about 16 hours.


All times are for 2 hour movies. I think my 125 hours about wins it.

[defense]

Posted: 2003 Apr 14 02:37

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jeex wrote:
i-on-s wrote:
Back in 1994 i had captured a george carlin special on HBO and it was about let say 2hrs roughly and it took 1 week and 3 days to encode to VCD with my P1 133 Dell with 32mb of ram running windows 95 but it didnt effect me cause i was in south carolina on vacation for the summer and i looked at the finish time and i started it on monday the 13th of april (i remember the date cause it was the day after my birthday) and it wasnt done untill saturday the 23rd now that is along time!


how did you capture the video in the first place? vide capture cards werent that prevelant. what format did you capture to? what program did you use to encode to vcd with? how much harddrive space did you have? hell 2 hours would take atleast 1.6gb finished.. i mean, shit the vcd spec was developed in 1993 and cd burners werent even available back then. and windows 95 wasnt available back in 1994 (it was late 1995)..




I thought it sounded kind of fishy. Another thing, is how did you get a comp with Windows 95 to run for 10 days straight? Heck Bill Gates himself cant do that.

lmao...this is the type of stuff that screws threads up. When people come on and post "fiction" as "fact" and others buy into the B.S and are heavily mislead. On this particular thread, there is no harm, it is pretty damn funny, but talk about a well thought up story. Windows 95 wasn't even out then...if that's true..that's funny shit. Also, the Bill Gates can't even do it was hilarious!

[i-on-s]

Sorry wrong date should of been 1996 and it was a buster multimedia cap card made by QI and i dont know what codec, my memory isnt that good and it was a 8gb western digital h/d and if bill gates can't get windows 95 to run that long he needs to come see me i've had a 486 IBM run windows 95 for 5 weeks straight before.

[pacmania_2001]

I remember when I first started out making (S)VCD's. Average time to encode (from divx) half a movie was around 14-15 hours. So for the whole movie you were looking at 28 hours of encoding time.

For SVCD it was more like 16-17 hours per part (and this time it was 3cds) so you were looking at about 48 hours. Never been prouder of how good M:I 2 SVCD looked though.

Then there are the memories of the failures. Like when M:I 2 part three was about an hour or two away from finishing and my mum removed the power cord from the socket so she could vacuum or my first attempt at SVCD (I think for encoding anything for that matter). It was 'The Rock' and me being the stupid fool that I can be sometimes be just went into the options and basically upped all the settings (including things like resolution). After waiting 25 hours for the one part to finish I quickly burnt it only to find out that my DVD player wouldnt accept it.

[doom969]

2 or 3 weeks ago i used tmpgenc batch encoding to encode a serie of tv episode and it took 78hrs... (altough it wasnt finished but I couldnt wait any longer...)
I was surprised all of the files were success.
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[hamman]

Can you really convert on a 300mhz? I have both a 2ghz P4 (used by all mu family) and soon a P2 300 mhz on my room. Is it even possible to convert on this machine?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Can you really convert on a 300mhz? I have both a 2ghz P4 (used by all mu family) and soon a P2 300 mhz on my room. Is it even possible to convert on this machine?

Yes,but it is very slooooooooooooooooow.

[Gazorgan]

tie up my machine for .....

What tie up? If I want to game while encoding, I game, so what? Set TMPG to low priority, and it effectively idles while I game, then I stop and it goes back to encoding. I've been doing this for a year. I also watch movies while encoding. Strictly W2K/XP only, sorry, 9x users need not apply.

Longest Encode? About 12 hours for a 3 hour movie...rip to bin/cue for multi-pass VBR.

[drewson99]

38 hours:

TMPGEnc, 2 pass VBR "Very Slow" setting, Lord of the Rings I

on my AMD 1800+ system in my specs.

[Marco33]

NOW


Was it worth all those hours? Did you end up with a killer video file that looked awsome on your system or was it a waste?

For me... NO. After 12 hours I had a perfectly reduced video file that was out of sync. I've since gotten past the sync problem.

[jeex]

yeah, it was a pretty nice file.. i even made my own menu's and chapter selection screens.. it was a pretty nice dvd.. but i never burned it.. i didnt have a dvd burner.. it was just practice.. by the time i did get a dvd burner, dvd2one was just born and i already had the cce/maestro method down..

[trillium]

48 hrs to encode Children of Dune episode 1 frameserving with avisynth to mpeg2 (TMPGEnc) :P

granted this is on an ADM 750...and probably not the most efficient means of encoding, but the quality is there which is what I was after

[menace]

Star wars laserdisc to dvd--37-40 hrs a piece --noise filter on and set to high quality mode--very nice results. 40 hrs is too long for me but this is star wars after all