Problems : 6 hours to convert 10 mins of capture with Tmpgen

[Shinji__]

Hi everyone!!!

I'm having problem converting capture clip or even DVD to svcd with Tmpgenc. I'm working with a AMD t-bird 1ghz with 512 ram, so it shouldn't take me 6 hours to encode a 10 mins clip, right??
For te template I use the template that comes with the program it's just that I change the setup to Best Quality (Very slow). Is it really worth it??? Should it be this thing that make my encoding so slow???

I would appreciate any infos
thanks a lot

[Ktranmd_99]

Shinji,
I guess what you are doing is perfectly normal. My system is 1.4 Gig Athlon with 512 DDR RAM and it took me 52 minutes to convert a 5 minutes 704x480 AVI clip to 480x480 SVCD (mpg2, at constant 2400 kbs, TMPG enc best qual). You should take all factors into accounts such as, bit rates, frame res, filter pass...when you are doing the conversion.
Mine is taking about 10x to covert from AVI to SVCD, and your is 36 times.

[tinycorkscrew]

Most experienced TMPGEnc users use high quality settings to encode. The highest quality settings take twice as long, and, while I'm very picky, I've never been able to tell the difference between a VCD or SVCD encoded with high quality settings and one encoded with highest quality settings.

[georgia_dutchman]

Using the same TMPGEnc settings as you except for "high quality" instead of "highest quality" it takes my Athlon 950 about 10X input video length also.

[sean madison]

ShiZZZoN-

This is what makes tmpgenc encode longer-
1-res is larger than 352x240 since 352x240 is normal
2-motion search precision is set to anything other than lowest quality(NOTE: my template has confirmed that highest quality is worth it since it eliminates LOTS of blocks)
3-using any filter with exception of source range and clip frame(NOTE: most or all movies require at least 1 filter as described in my template to perfect quality)
4-fps(frames per second). the more frames it is, the more frames it has to encode. Now since the default fps here is 29.97, thats what i encode in. Some dvd players allow you to encode at lower fps and when played back, it fixes itself but mine causes vid+aud to go out of sync so be careful.

5-ratio size(anything besides 1:1 vga in both video and advanced tab). NOTE again- for tv, set to 4:3 525 line

6-If you are using variable encoding method, it will have to run thru the movie twice!

7-soften block noise enabled(NOTE: do NOT use this, this causes blurriness of picture and looks retarded)

Thats bout it i think that causes slow downs besides the fact that tmpgenc encodes the fastest when it STAYS as the ACTIVE WINDOW. Make sure your resources % are high at least above 70% before encoding starts.
if tmpgenc is active window, this means you CANNOT be doing anything while encoding(you can download but not use keyboard, mouse, or joystick cuz this will cause tmpgenc to go inactive)
In TMPGEnc, there is a priority setting for active and inactive. If you persist in doing things while encoding, set inactive to highest priority. Just make sure you aren't playing games such as UT or max payne, something that hogs down vid card.

Also make sure that the active window priority is at least normal, you can set it to highest along with the highest for inactive but you will be unable to do anything.

[thxkid]

I have a 36in JVC TV and I can tell the difference between the high and highest setting when I encode a Uncompressed AVI to SVCD or VCD MPEG or even a DIVX AVI to MPEG.
When I am encoding a 5 minute Family music video I want it to look perfect so I go ahead and take the 25-30 minutes it takes to encode it.
Just did a wedding and for the 8min. 480x480 uncompressed AVI's it took about 70min. to encode using the highest setting and I am using a 1.2 thunderbird with 512 megs of PC133 ram, the finished product was perfect.
Everyone that has seen the finished wedding product is amazed how it looks, so for me, its worth the extra time.

[bravo]

no it shouldn't,i can convert a whole movie on highest quality setting in that time,i dont know what's wrong but something is.i also have an amd 1gig with 256 ram

[bravo]

shizzon is right though if you use filters it will take ALOT longer

[Ktranmd_99]

Thnxkid,
Have you tried to capture 704x480 AVI, convert to SVCD 480x480 and compared w 480x480 AVI->SVCD?

[Hateslife]

It must be the filters screwing you people up...

With highest quality motion search and 10-bit dc component (whatever that is) it takes me about 5x realtime to do SVCD video.

It's not like I have a good computer.