time to make vcd

[rmohr]

I am new to this whole thing but was wondering if I'm doing something wrong. I took a 15 min video last week and tried to make a vcd out of it. It took about 2 hours to convert it to a MPEG-1 file and then about 30 minutes to burn the cd. I am using ulead to do the conversion and Nero to burn the cd. Nero also had to encode the file to make it a vcd.
My question , does this time sound like what everyone else is getting (Compaq 800 mhzt, 128 meg ram computer) or am I not doing it correctly or is there something that can be done to speed up this process. Also the file size was about 180 meg... Does this sound about right.

[vcdfreak]

It's quite a norm for software encoding. But faster PC might help shortening the encoding time.

If it's a concern, you might need special hardware for realtime encoding.

[rmohr]

thanks....how much faster could i get if I had faster cpu...just curious because I'm thinking about getting different computer... Any timings would be appreciated.

VCDFREAK - what kind of hardware are you talking about....

[Martok]

Conversion time sounds about right. Check the guides for proper bitrates etc. Don't let Nero reencode, you can turn off VCD standard compliance. 180mb is correct.

[vcdfreak]

The fastest system I can see so far is of dual Athlon Xp system. This claim is supported by the following reviews:

http://www.tbreak.com/hard/mobo/msi_dualamd/page9.html

http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=asus760mpx&page=7&mscssid=&tp=


Someone might argue that TMPGEnc might take advantage of the SSE2 instructions only can be found in P4. But so far I still cannot a solid proof for such claim.

Someone claims that Athlon XP 1800+ systems require only 2X the video length to convert. I am not sure about this as I might be getting a new system to prove this myself.

I might also get a hardware realtime encoder. Still reading reviews on these.

Hope this helps.

[rmohr]

thanks for all the info...

Martok....You said don't let Nero do the enocding. I am not sure I understand. If I convert this to MPEG-1 , I remember the option you are talking about but if Nero doesn't do the encoding how will it get to VCD format...