Too slow? TMPG....

[calibrie]

Hello to you all!

My first visit here and I´m glad I found it.

So my question is: Should it take me up to 3-4 hours to encode a 50 min film with TMPG?

Seems a bit boring to wait for such time.

I have a 450Mhz 128kram computer, Can that be the reason?

Ok but I love this site and the stuff you can find here.

So...

[incognito]

4 hours is blindingly fast for a 450Mhz computer.

[calibrie]

Hehe is it?

Oh soo then I dont have too worry about somethings wrong, except my Computer sucks and my English is awful?

Thanks anyway....

[calibrie]

Bye the way.

You guys hoo have some 1.x Mhz computers, how long time does it take for you for an 50 min movie with TMPG?

Soo I know if it worth it to spend some cash for a new one.

[LanceSteel]

Are you encoding to Mpeg1 or Mpeg2? What res are you encoding to? Are bitrate method are you encoding to (VBR, CBR, 2-Pass VBR?) They all take a different amount of time. On my Athlon 1800 it takes me around 10 hours to do a 2 hour 720x480 stream using 2-Pass VBR. If I remember correctly it only takes like 1 hour 06 mins to do a 44 minute stream at 352x480 using Mpeg2 VBR (not 2-pass.)

[ZimZ]

It still will take you a long time on a faster machine. An entire movie (100 minutes) takes me about 4 hours to encode to mpeg1.

[KingJohn]

It still will take you a long time on a faster machine. An entire movie (100 minutes) takes me about 4 hours to encode to mpeg1.

That long ? on a 1.4 is that Intel ?

100 min about 90 min

[Agent 0008]

I love this stuff, I have a 400 Mhz, when rendering a 30 minute SVCD I start it night when I go to bed so it will be done by morning, usually 8 hours.

[punkster103]

sadly, i too have a 450mhz p3, so it takes me about 3 or 4 hours to convert to svcd's with TMPGEnc, but i usually do what agent0008 does and leave my computer on all night

[3dcandy]

My PC takes about 4 hrs to encode an AVI to VCD specification mepg1.....
It's an Athlon 1.4 @ 1533mhz with 512 meg ram, SVCD can take 2-3 times longer!

You think thats slow..........On my K62-500 SVCD ,2 hour movie..........try 75 hours!!! but the results are stunning!!!!!

[mckeomat]

3dcandy that time seems long for a vcd conversion, I have a 1.4 athlon with 512 ram and it usually takes me about 2hrs to convert from a DivX?

[BALLIN]

i have a 1.8 ghz p4 comp with 512 ram and ton of hd space, and it still takes sooo long for svcd, about 18 hours for a normal 90min movie. But the vcd takes about 4 hours, of course i only encode with the slowest highest quality setting. Is there any way i can make my vcd(mpeg) to svcd(mpeg 2) proccess faster, any priority environmental settings i need to put up? Cause damn, 18 hours for a svcd highest quality, with a very high bitrate, i made the file size to fit two 700mb cd-r so that 1.4gigs of space and movie encoded(the movie i am doing now is happy gilmore lol).

[Thorn]

The time to encode is based on what you are encoding from and if you are filtering. If I'm just re-encoding a 320x340 divx file to vcd, I can do a 45min show in about an hour on my 1.33GHz Athlon. However, my usual frameserves from Virtualdub to TMPGenc can take 2-3 when the source is in Huffyuv at 720x480. I HAVE, on occasion, taken 24+ hours when I used some TMPGenc filters. The same conversion took less than half of that when the filtering was done by Virtualdub and frameserved to TMPGenc.

[deadpac]

Anything at or above 2GHZ on Intel cpu's is basically encoding at real time, 50min in equals 50min out unless filter/frameserving are involved which slightly increases the encoding time. Built a p4 2.53ghz box and it encodes in real time when using CBR at Very High Quality, 2x playing time if 2pass VBR MPEG-2. Mpeg-1 is .85x real time CBR and 1.5x playing time with 2pass VBR.

Depending on what mobo/Athlon XP combo [greater than 1650mhz] you're running, encoding is at or below real time. Got one [only a BIG A$$ HSF combo for cooling] 1734mhz[+2100] oc'd at 1839mhz that encodes in less than real time with filtering either through Virtual Dub or DVD2AVI when it comes to 2pass VBR MPEG-2 CVD streams encoding is close if not near real-time; CBR MPEG-2 CVD is about .90x playing time with filters/frameserving. Haven't encoded Mpeg-1 on this box but I assume it is right up there with my Intel 2.53ghz box or maybe less considering how recent my p4 box is.

Dusted off the ol' p2 400mhz workhorse and encoding a 43min [Digital Cable source] AVI in Virtual Dub with 2d cleaner & Contrast filter frameserved to TMPGEnc and encoding 2pass VBR MPEG-1 [yes 1] took a whopping 8 hours. I do not miss the leave encoding at night routine anymore. A DVDRIP frameserved with DVD2AVI to TMPGEnc with no filters was around 8 hours.

Thorn,
Found the same observation as you, a good temporal noise cleaner used in Vdub will get the job done A LOT faster and cleaner than if someone was to use the noise reduction filter in TMPGEnc, which takes up way too much time on the high quality setting.

[KingJohn]

Anything at or above 2GHZ on Intel cpu's is basically encoding at real time, 50min in equals 50min

Not quite right, I have a 1.6 and 50 min would take less

[3dcandy]

I always use a high quality source, and always have all settings on max quality - plus I'm usually either online and/or doing something!!!

If I'm not multi-tasking the pc I'm asleep, so I don't know/check how long it takes....

[incognito]

For all you overnighters,:

frameserving from flask or xmpeg isn't the most popular
method around these parts, but it comes with a very handy
"shut down the computer when done" box that you can check.

[KingJohn]

Could always tell the computer to go into standby in x hours

[Martyn1980]

50min VCD on standard VCD settings on an AthlonXP1800 usually takes me about 40minutes, on CCE it takes about 20 or less.