4 hours for a SVCD with Duron 1.2 gig nder TMPGenc

[wipeout]

Is this realistic?...I have a pretty fast system. Duron 1.2 gig with two hard drives. I also created a wav file.

4 hours for one cd....thats takes quite a while.

[Martyn1980]

Welcome to VCD making

that is normal, there are people out there who spend 12 hours encoding half a film

[beefcake]

woa, thats sure is a long time. I encoded a movie earlier, it took 2 hours for both sides. 2.2ghz machine. I thoght mine took long.

[Martyn1980]

lucky you to have such a good computer.

What encoder do u use, im guessing Tmpeg cause on a system like that if you used CCE if would fly along.

On My Comp which is 1533mhz i can encode a DVD at about 0.85x which means a 100min film takes about 2 hours for the whole movie. And thats at 720x576 resolution i can do a 100min film at half dvd res in about 85mins, and i can encodeAVI's at 100mins in about 65-70mins, although this is all CBR which i dont really use, but u can see the sped is there, if your after speed then on a comp like yours then CCE would be great.

[PlaiBoi]

I have a duron 850 and do 2-pass vbr encodes. My last movie that i did which was 132 min. long took me 18 hours to encode.

[Rarj4ever]

Mine P4 1.7Mhz, 2 40Gb ATA 133 Maxtor set up to RAID O w/ TX2000 FastTRAK Ultra ATA/133 Raid Card and i just encode Black Hawk Down movie in vcd w/ 2 pass vbr encodes and it took me 6hrs and 45mins.maybe i should get P4 2.2Ghz like beefcake

[SatStorm]

Tmpgenc plus, 2 Pass VBR,motion estimate search mode:
With Athlon XP 1700+ about 1/2 realtime
With Duron 1200 about 1/3 of realtime
Both run w2k

With CCE, realitime for XP 1700+

[TheRookie]

Realtime encoding with TMPGEnc:
Cropping, Sharpen edge, blocks blurring, highest quality.
If any other filters selected, it takes longer, depends on filters used.

Athlon 1600+, 512m DDR, 2x60G 7200rpm. ECSK7S5A

[SatStorm]

Realtime encoding with TMPGenc?
For what source/input resolution/output resolution/mpeg type? Interlace or Progressive? Which encode mode? (CBR/CQ_VBR/2PASSVBR)?
I must missing something!!!!

[TheRookie]

Usually it is DivX 4 (with 5 it takes longer, but I have no idea why), with audio coming from WAV file (extracted with VDub). Using VCD-template settings very similar to that of pinoy2000 (sorry if the name is misspelled).
NO noise reduction or any other filters of that kind. Only those I've listed in previous post.

The PC is NOT overclocked or something (in fact, my mobo doesn't allow to do so). OS: WinXP.
TMPGEnc 2.54. All processor specific stuff is enabled (when I'll come home I'll tell you more )

In fact, I am now investigating the codec from MainConcept and it looks like it is a little bit slower, but the quality (IMHO) is better. The only problem was when I encoded 22Gb DV file to VCD I've got "Kernel panic: Memory Low" message from Windows.

[wipeout]

Yeap, just made my first SVCD. At 1479 bitrate (in order to make 2 cd because the movie was broken into 1.07 hours each. I guess there is a way to merge avi files...i dunno know)

It took six hours (UGH). I do the second cd tonight (UGH).

I guess I need a faster processer or just run these jobs when I am sleeping.

[energy80s]

To encode a 40 minute CVD (SVCD) file on my XP1600 system with CBR in TMPGenc it takes about 1 hour 35 mins. Encoding a 2hr 5min film using Kwag's template and CQ coding (xVCD) it takes 5 hours.

[wipeout]

YOU USE CBR.....WHAT IS THE SPEED WITH VARIABLE METHOD?

IS CONSTANT BITRATE OK FOR SVCD. I THOUGHT YOU NEED THE TWO PASS METHOD.

[cheftaz]

wipeout
You don't need 2 pass. I encode all my svcds using cbr with excellent quality. I experimented with 2 pass as well but did not see ANY difference in quality and it takes way longer. As far as 2 pass making smaller file size I don't care because they end up on 2 discs anyway. encoding a 1.5 hr movie takes about 2 hrs and 45 min. encoding approx 40 min (1st disc of a movie) takes about 1 hr and 15 min

[Martyn1980]

i understand your concerns about how long VBR takes and i have to admit i never used VBR until i used CCE but it makes a massive difference.

A few months back i encoded Driven to 3 disc using Tmpeg and it looked good, but last week i tried it again on CCE 3 pass VBR, and i managed to get it onto 2 discs at the same quality, but ive heard Tmpegs VBR isn't all that great and Tmpeg takes long enough on CBR, and you have a similar computer specification as mine.