Speed increase?

[calbear94]

It appears that the SVCD2DVD program calls ffmpeg.exe separately for each asset imported, and that ffmpeg.exe runs at low priority according to task manager. Is there a way for me to automatically increase the priority to high without having to so manually for each asset processed in task manager?

I also notice that SVCD2DVD/ffmpeg processes assets located on my external USB drive alot slower than it does on my harddrive (internal IDE). I thought USB 2.0 was supposed to be quite fast? Is this because it is reading and writing at the same time to the same directory/drive?

Is there a way to process PAL SVCD assets as PAL DVD assets without converting those assets?

Thanks.

Sean

[jagabo]

Setting the priority to high won't help encoding speed much unless you have some other CPU intensive applications running at the same time. Process priority is used for scheduling -- ie determining which tasks get more CPU time. If nothing else is running there's nothing else to give CPU time to so the one task gets everything (except the small amount of background O/S activity which, unless your system has a problem, should be less than 1 percent).

USB 2.0 is rather slow for hard drives. It maxes out around 30 MB/sec whereas most hard drives can sustain twice that these days. use IEEE 1394 or eSATA if you want more speed from an external drive.

[Jikchung]

In settings, uncheck "Convert PAL assets to NTSC".