Slow Encoding....

[Sonjay_Terrapopolis]

I'm encoding using the latest TMPGenc with the following settings:
mpeg-1 at 352x240
23.976 fps ( same as source)
Aspect ratio is 4:3 NTSC
Constant Bitrate (CBR) @ 1246 kbits/sec
Motion Accuracy is : motion estimate (fast)

Audio is set to
layer-2 44100hz 128kps

I'm only running a celeron 300 with 178 megs of ram, so I know the speed is going to be slow. I have done about 12 movies and they all took about 15 hours, but now I can't seem to encode anything in less then 26 hours, any ideas? (other then upgrade my system. I'm planning on getting a 1.4 ghz Athlon at the end of the summer, but until then i have to make do).

This is the second time around for this movie. The first time, like an idiot, I forget to change the fps and the audio was out of sync. Had to start all over again. Total encode time about 57 hours. oops.


Sonjay

[ralfbeckers]

Ell, even on my Athlon 800 with 396 MB RAM, encoding takes a LONG time. SO you are not alone.
You should clean up your system constantly: remove unneeded files, defragment.
Its good to use two separate physical disk for the souce and target files.
Ralf