DivX to SVCD takes VERY long time

[KrYlLX]

When I do some searches in the forum it looks like it normally would take approx 1 hour to convert 1 hour divx into vcd.

Yesterday i started to convert a divx movie into svcd with tmpgenc. Now it says: Elapsed time: 18:40:23 (yes ...18 hours), Remaining time: 62:55:02 (yes...hours again..)

What did I do bad? 80 Hours !!! to convert a movie that runs for under 2 hours.

In the settings I changed to VBR 2 pass or something like that. I think i'm doing a conversion from NTSC to PAL. I set some interlace setting to DOUBLE.. looked better.. The quality is set to Highest.
PC: P4 2GHz 256MB RAM

Is this normal?

[cooljoe666]

Highest quality will take forever with no added improvement. Just choose Slow-high quality. Choose Progressive instead of Interlace if it's a downloaded clip. I had the best results with TmpgEnc by using CQ 2520 - quality setting 80 if the video is no more than 100 minutes. If it's more than bring the bitrate down to 2320. This is the fastest mode I think.

If you want faster results CCE is the best way to go, ignore some of the guides on this forum about using CCE with DVD2SVCD. Not needed. All you need is FitCD, CCE, and bbMPEG. Use TmpgEnc to extract the audio to an MP2 file. Use VirtualMOD to check your source files for errors and fix them. Sounds like alot but worth spending alitlle time learning because the results are more consistent and alot faster. Otherwise, try the settings above. GL.

[KrYlLX]

THX for the answer man. I think i'm gonna let the thing finnish just to see the result.. It's just about 59 hours left LOL

One thing if anybody knows:
I now read that the recommendations are that first extract the sound from the divx file and then convert with tmpgenc. I didn't do this. I just took the divx file as it is and started convert. Is it for sure then gonne be something wrong with the converted movie or can it be correct.??
If it's doomed to fail then I'm gonna end the process.

[teegee420]

It is normally recommended when dong AVI to mpeg conversions that you convert the audio in the AVI to wav form, then select the wav as audio source when converting with TMPGenc. You can convert to wav using Virtualdub by going to audio and selecting "Full Processing Mode" and then to File and select "Save WAV". This is especially important when converting AVI's with variable bit rate audio.

If the video you are encoding right now should play with the audio out of sync, don't worry. It can be fixed. Post back if that should occur.

[KrYlLX]

thanks i will...

Rather funny..... the movie i'm converting... it's the one that you have as your signature .... how did u know LOL .................

[teegee420]

Sweet.

[KrYlLX]

The conversion has finnished. It took 82 hours LOL. The picture quality is like the original, But ... there is no sound. It dissapeared. If I look at the file in Avicodec it says that there is both audio and video, but the sound wont play.
Is there anytning I can do or is it now time to end this experiment and just delete the file ?

[Hardcoreruss]

Did the original avi have sound ?, what does gspot say about the file ? ac3 audio maybe ?

[Gazorgan]

cooljoes method isn't compatable. Bitrate is too high to be 100% compatable.

Set your motion search precision to the middle, it's the #1 reason encodes take more than 8 hours. CQ is about as good a 2-pass VBR, just harder to hit a specific file size. CBR is the fastest.

Re-sizing also takes a long time.

[KrYlLX]

>hardcoreruss

Yes the original had sound. G-spot wont tell anything about the file and the RENDER button is greyed out..

But AviCodec says:
Audio 176MB 224Kbps, 44100Hz, 2 Channels, 0x51 = Mpeg1 audio Layer 2 (0xc0), Supported.

[mats.hogberg]

But AviCodec says:
Audio 176MB 224Kbps, 44100Hz, 2 Channels, 0x51 = Mpeg1 audio Layer 2 (0xc0), Supported.

This is what you have encoded, right? I don't think many AVIs come with MP2 audio...
I bet the AVI has AC3 audio. TMPGEnc doesn't do that - you have to convert the audio to wav first, covered gazillions of times in the past. Make a Forum search.
In short, load AVI in GoldWave. Save wav. Use wav as audio source when encoding.
...and hey, be careful when discussing what you're encoding! The movie you indicated has by no means been released on DVD yet, and is by definition warez...

/Mats

[KrYlLX]

...and hey, be careful when discussing what you're encoding! The movie you indicated has by no means been released on DVD yet, and is by definition warez...

Mats I can give you tons of links to Battle Royale if U want to buy this on DVD. It's a legal DVD, and it's mine. Eller på ren svenska... Detta är ingen pirat kopia!
(EDIT) And now i'm feeling a little dumb... hehe she looks like a girl in BR but I now see that it is from KillBill.... LOL. I'm messing with BR, not KB. (EDIT)

And about the .wav thing u talk about... if you read further up, u can see that i'm asking about this and that I would have stopped the converting at an earlier state bla bla...... Yes I have read posts saying that u should separate the sound before you convert the movie. But that is recomendations... I tried.. did not work

[mats.hogberg]

Ah - Sorry for misinterpreting your misunderstanding Yes, it was KB i referred to.
Still - The info from AVICodec seems to be the mpg you've encoded, not from your source. Is this correct? If so, what are your source codecs?

/Mats

[scrotus]

instead of starting another thread I'll throw mine in as well.

Is it normal using DVD2SVCD that it takes about 20 hours to encode a movie? Everything else from ripping to audio extraction, etc takes minutes. Just wondering if this is correct? Using CCE, TMPGenc, or Procoder yields roughly the same number of hours.

System:

Celery 1.2
512 megs ram
gf3ti200 128 meg

[teegee420]

Judging by your system specs that sounds about right. I'm surprised to hear that CCE wasn't any faster though. You might want to try 1-pass VBR if you haven't already.

[scrotus]

teegee,

Yeah Im doing 2 pass vbr right now. Is there a big difference in quality? Id sacrifice some for time spent encoding especially since i am doing 2 disc svcds.

Actually, CCE had some failures when I tried to encode so i am trying other methods.

[KrYlLX]

Mats I think the orig is in mp3. Doesnt say the encoder...

[mats.hogberg]

Mats I think the orig is in mp3. Doesnt say the encoder...

Might be VBR mp3 then - TMPGEnc doesn't like that either (resulting in way out encoding estimates by TMPGEnc), even of you ought to get some sound in the final mpeg...
If VBR mp3, extract audio from AVI with VirtualDub MP3 Freeze (direct stream) and convert to wav. (CDEx)

/Mats