2 funny things using DVD2SVCD

[eiourtch]

I found 2 funny things working with DVD2SVCD.
1: I used win98 for a while and recently changed on w2000
and guess what. Before, All ripping took about 15-17 hours
and now it was done in 10. I have PIII-500 192M RAM.
2: Second thing is not so optimistic. Every time I started
CCE overnight It works with normal speed up to midnight and
after midnight speed falls tens times. The value of speed
on screen is the same, but real is unbelievable. I waited for
15 hours and it moves just on couple percents.

Does somebody have the same experience?

[kriskim]

for your first point, win2k rocks. [altho i'm having a great time with xp right now...]
for your second point, how many passes for vbr are you using? it seems to me like you're describing the vaf creation and then the mpv creation.

the vaf creation (i believe) goes through the entire movie @cbr. this should only take anywhere from 3-5 hours on a good 120min movie. after the vaf is done, cce begins encoding the mpv in vbr, so if you're doing 5 passes, it'll take about 4-5 times as long. it's not that it's slowing down <grin>, it's just that it's doing it 5 times over, it just seems deceiving because (unlike when you use the plugin in premiere), all 5 passes are done in the "same window" so to speak. if you have a regular full lenght movie, 15 hours on your p3 500 will not be enough for 5 pass. i have an athlon 1.4 256ddr now, but when i used to use dvd2svcd on my old comp (p3 700, 128pc133), 5 passes would take me 22hours.

so don't worry, it's not slowing down. you'll just have to wait awhile. a long while.

[waldok]

Yeah, that's true. I was also surprised about this, but then I tried to encode in 2 passes, and I noticed it was t hesame behaviour, quiet fats on VAF creation and slowing down for real encoding passes.

DOn"t worry, the midnight hour or the full moon has nothing to do with it, CCE is not a Transylvanian software (as far as I know)

I have a weird effect myself with DVD2SVCD, about subtitles.
I noticed that subtitles disappear when watching the final SVCD, and the points where they disappear correspond to yhe initial chapter changes on the original DVD. I then have to reactivate them manually each time. Did you notice something like that too ?

Waldok