Ripping Shrek to VCD

[jmcgwen]

Just following the "Pinoy2201's DVD Ripping guide".

Does it normally take more than 25 hrs to encode this movie to VCD? or I should have done something different since shrek is an animation? Because in "TMPGenc" the stats are currently like this;
Elapse time: 3hrs +
Source Position: just pass 00:7:00
Remaining Time: never goes less than 27 hrs

Are these all normal? Sorry, i'm a newbie with this.

Thanks in advance

[frenetic]

you left out some important info like what kind of hardware you have?

what steps did you take before you started encoding?

Everything you did before the actual encoding can contribute to how long it's taking.

[weeman]

My first post jmcgwen i am also a newbie.
I also encoded shrek it took me just under 6 hours (700mhz machine) i know slow compared to most guys`machines on this site.
I think the speed of your computer will have a lot to do with it,also if you use Tmpgenc to encode the vcd check to see if under settings,that motion
search precision is not set to Highest Quality,When i used this setting the 6 hours became 11 hours.Also using a lot of filters slows the encoding down as well.Hope this helps.Doc

[poopyhead]

yes...you need to state your CPU.....CPU power makes all the difference in the world when it comes to encoding time...so if you have a celeron or duron..don't expect very much

since you're only encoding VCD, i don't think CBR will take that much time (only 2 pass VBR doubles the encode time)

as weeman stated, motion search accuracy as highest quality (slowest) will add alot of encode time and yet not much better quality compared to high quality (slow)...so just stick with high quality (slow)

filters can add...but it depends on which filters you use when increasing the encode time (if you are using any adaptive de-interlace filters, it will increase your encode time by alot)

[jmcgwen]

Sorry for not giving useful details.

Anyway thanks for reading my question.

I just found out what was wrong when I played the unfinished mpg, the screen was way too big, so i changed the screen setting, and it took me the normal time to RIP.

Thanks