Help. Quicker Alternative to TMPGEnc?

[Teleport]

I have just converted my first movie to XVCD using the excellent guide (using a header trick) on this site.

This played beautifully on my DVD player (sony DVP-S725D) which can't play SVCDs.

Unfortunatly this took 14 hours to encode with TMPGEnc.

So my question is this. Is there someway I can use a Hardware encoder to do the same header trick thing i.e create non standard VCDs (XVCDs) from an movie file and save myself sveral hours processing time?

I have just returned a Hauppauge PVR-350 and am going to try a Adaptec Videoh! card.

ANY METHODS POSTED WOULD BE GRATEFULLY RECIEVED. YHOU ESPECIALLY INVOLVING THE ADAPTEC CARD.

Thank you.

[LSchafroth]

You could use the new CCE Basic for $58. It's only $8 more then TMPGEnc and it supposed to be considerably faster.

I haven't tried it yet since nobody has posted a good side by side comparison with results of speed and images.

Lannie

[Teleport]

Thanks for the reply lannie.

I need to try it before I buy it so I'll see if I can get my hands on a demo.

But will it do XVCD?

There must be a way to do this with hardware encoding.

[q1aqza]

I'm not very familiar with the header trick but I thought it was applied to an already created MPG file, so theoretically you should be able to use a hardware encoder to create the initial MPG file.

I think the PVR 350 will only encode online, i.e. during capture, and not offline with an already captured AVI file or something. I have the PVR 250 and that is certainly the case with that one.

As one of the other replies said you might be better off using CCE.