How Long Should it take?

[blarb]

I'm currently converting fast_and_furious(1of2).avi to a .mpg using TMPGEnc and it seems to be taking quite a while. It has been over 6 hours and it is only at 20%, saying that it still has 26 hours to go! As I am extremely new to this, I am not sure if this is way too long or what? Please advise...

[Dhruv]

Please tell us your CPU speed and if you are using any filters in TMPGEnc. Make sure you don't run anything else while encoding as it'll slow down time.

[rickmccl]

yes it should usually take a long time. that does sound very long, but depending on your settings, CPU speed, and the rest of your computer it may make sense.

[blarb]

My CPU is an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400MHz @ 266MHz FSB with 512 MB PC2100 DDR Memory. The only "filter" I checked was the one that reduces noise because the .avi play sounded "twangy" or sort of "metallic". Well, it's been 16 hours and there's 18 to go (it's at 46%) so I guess we'll find out how it went tomorrow. By the way, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and yes, I am running other programs (how can I leave my computer for a whole day?!)

Thanks...
-Rob