How long to convert to 720p to DVD?

[EAO]

Curious how long an hour conversion will take. I know it's CPU intensive.

I'm wondering about the value of a PC upgrade.

Interested in AMD references.

Since I've transcoded using everything from 1Ghz to 1600+ to 1800+ to 2700+ to 3500+... I'll have a good idea if you'd be kind enough to share what you know.

I currently use an overclocked X2 3800+ running at 4200+ speeds but I am still living in the SD world.

[jak_omo]

there are a lot of options an konfigurations which increase or decrease the convertion time.
software differences are also effecting the encoding time.

[redwudz]

You are pretty much at the upper end for PC performance, so I doubt you will see any large increases in speed with an upgrade.

What jak_omo said, you may find some speed increase through changing your software settings, assuming your hardware is performing at the max.

It would help to explain your process and the software you are using for the conversions.

[EAO]

Understood.

Sorry about not being clear. No process as of yet. Still fiddling with SD and I have no problems with time.

After reading several threads here I am only curious about the time involved with HD converting. It never occured to me about various methods = different amounts of time. But it makes sense. Same principal applies with SD MPEG2 and DVD encoding .

[jagabo]

I ran a test with my A64 X2 3800+ (stock) and TMPGEnc Plus. The way I usually encode, single pass, constant quality, motion search precision low, it takes about 1.3 times the running time of the video to convert a 1280x720, 23.976 fps, progressive, divx file to anamorphic 720x480 MPEG2 (video only). So a 60 minute video would take about 78 minutes to encode.

[EAO]

Much appreciated.

[CubDukat]

A 45-minute program renders in CCE SP (TMPGEnc XPress 3.x is too flaky) using 1-pass VBR in about 3.5-4 hours on my 2.4 P4.

It would probably render somewhat faster if I bumped my memory up to 1GB. Right now I have 512MB installed (dual-channel, natch). But I'm not going to do any more major expansion of this machine, since I'm building a new Socket AM2 machine.

[painkiller]

EAO,

As far as the hardware system goes - the best performance you get for encoding video is not just based on the CPU speed alone.

I found that getting a motherboard with significant front side buss speed capability makes a serious advantage in speed of the encode.

I recently got an AMD Athlon 64 model 3500+ CPU with an ASUS A8V motherboard. That model number of the cpu does NOT indicate its top speed of 2.2GHz. The specs on this motherboard indicates the following spec for the fsb - 2000/1600 MT/s. I can't say that I know what the MT/s actually stands for but I do think it is 'up there'.

Couple these with two equal DIMMs (512Mb or 1Gb) in their respective memory slots - and you got a very nice, fast machine.

I know this configuration made some of my encoding complete at least one hour faster than on a previous, older, P4/motherboard.

Just my experience, for what that's worth to you.

(And it doesn't 'break the bank' in cost to get there.)

[vhelp]

@ CubDukat

sorry for dumb question, but..
How are you obtaining your HD sources ? through Capturing or .TS card ??

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