DVD2SVCD Processing Time

[sygar2000]

My question is how long should it take.

I started the process of ripping and converting the DVD "Heat" last night, in accordance with the user guide. The guide is very good. The ripping process and other processes took about an hour. Then it started the conversion process with TMPGEnc (the latest version).

This process is indicating that it will take 48 hours. It was running fine this morning with on 41 hours to go. I used the exact settings in the guide for the use of TMPGEnc.

My system is as follows:

933 Pentium III
Win2K OS
256 SDRAM
Lots of Hard Disk 40 G

Is this normal or are the settings in the guide making this an extra long process.

Thanks for your help

[mickboss]

something is VERY WRONG in your times!

I take about 15 minutes to rip to my hard disk (ASUS DVD-ROM 16x) and about 10 hours to encode a 2 hour movie with 4 passes!

...

Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1800+
256 MB RAM PC133
2 Maxtor HDDs - 13.6Gb/ATA66 + 20Gb/ATA100
...

Athlon is superb with MPEG-2 but NOT THAT good to justify such times!
Before Athlon I had a Celeron 900 @ 1100 MHz and it took me about 20 hours... 8)

[mickboss]

PS: USE CINEMACRAFT - it´s about 3 times faster than TMPGenc

[sygar2000]

Thanks for the comments I will check it out tonight and I will give CCE a look over.

Thanks