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[wolvesandbooze]

I've asked a similar question here recently, but now I need more help. I'm converting my movies using tmpenc and extracting the audio using virtual dub, basically I'm following the rules as they are stated on this site to the word. When I've converted films in the past they've taken about 4 hours for one half of the movie, roughly 45 minutes in film length. I started converting Robin Hood today, just the one half again, 40 odd minutes. When the estimated time came up it said 4 hours, when I went back about an hour later it shot up to 8 hours. Is this the norm, or is something I'm doing wrong. I realise I need a new cpu as it's only 500 mhz, and my ram is only 64. Cheers in advance.

[Bel]

That's the norm with TMPGenc, the estimated time tends to go before it goes down... As for the total time encoding usually takes, it depends on far too many things, but with your processor expect it to take forever.