Question on TMPGEnv DVD Author Times

[orion940]

I have a 1G processor and I'm trialing TMPGEnc DVD Author. I have an MPEG-1 all ready to go on a VCD, created by TMPGEnc.

I bring it into TDA, its all good. I know it has to re-encode the audio. To output the DVD-ready files, its taking about 45 mins for 1:45 minutes of MPEG.

I've seen comments about this running slow, this running fast for others.. given the processor, is 45 mins in the ball-park?? Or am I doing something wrong?

TIA

Orion

[johns0]

If the mpeg is 4.38 gigs then 45 minutes is about right,it takes my system about 20 minutes.

[elkfir]

For comparison's sake, I have an 866MHz PIII and it took a little over 2 hours to author three VCD movies (about 3.9 gigs) onto DVD using TMPGEnc DVD Author.

[johns0]

You can always encode the audio to ac3 with ffmpeg and use that in tda,it will reduce the encode time by half and you will have dvd compatible audio.

[orion940]

Thanks for the timings, much appreciated. By way of comparison, I'm probably not that far off. I just installed the DVD burner, and was messing around with different things to check compatibility with the DVD Player, etc.

I just started encoding an AVI ==> MPG2. I'll just let it run the 24 hours it wants to, and see what it gives me.

O.

[orion940]

Thanks, I found ffmpg and got it working. I'm taking the MPG-1's and using VDub to pull off the audio using no compression (not direct stream copy). I run it through ffmpg to AC3, using 224 bitrate/48000 other thing. I take TDA, pick the MPG for video, the AC3 for audio, and go from there. It took about 5 mins for the audio and 3 mins for the video. Much better than the 45 mins.

Does anyone see anything flawed here in this process? Im trying to understand the audio part better before I move onto making MPEG-2's. Is there a "good" bit rate for the audio for AC3/MPG-1? I can't seem to find anything that adresses this here. I may have overlooked a previous post.

TIA

O.