Is there a way to speed up TMPGEnc in enviromental settings?

[spankey]

How should TMPGEnc be set up on my pc? Does it make a difference in encoding time if its tweeked or can it NOT be tweeked to be optimized???

HP 520N
1.3 Celeron
512 megs of ram
60 gig HD
XP Home ED.....

Thanks for your time and info. I appreciate it!!!

Spankey

[TeeeRex]

Only tweek you can make is to increase the size of the VBR cache. This will reduce the time taken for a VBR encode by 30%(ish) if you make it large enough.

[spankey]

TeeRex-

On my system now that the fistd VBR pass is done, its encoding the movie now and my CPU is mostly at 96 to 100% all the time and using 30,000 k of memory in the task manager!!!!! How can I change the memory TMPGEnc is using so I can offer it more? Like 60,000k? Would that speed it up more...

I am currently getting 20fps in 2pass VBR for an SVCD? IS this good?

Because it seems teribly SLOW to me..... And yes I know its much faster than a 500mhz system.

Would adding more memory to the pc help? I am at 512 of sd right now????

Thanks
Spankey

[BJ_M]

if you read from one drive and write to another it will speed it up slightly ..

but big diff is to get dual cpu and/or faster cpu ..

more mem (in your case) will not help much as its cpu intensive.

[spankey]

Well as far as I have read, TMPGEnc and CCE will not run correctly on a dual cpu system, so that Idea is out!

And as for upgrading the cpu that is out of the question at the moment!!! Due to that I just bought this pc 6 months ago. I went from a 450 to a 1.3mhz chip and very satisfied, I was just curious if this is ok.

Maybe eventually I could get antoher Hard Drive to write to just for doing movies. What are they running these days??? All I would really need would be something in the 10 gig range??? Partitioning it would not make any differnece as its still reading and writing to the same drive correct???

Thanks
Spankey

[offline]

spankey,

setting envronment>task priority to idle can speed up tmpgenc
on some systems. Also deactivate preview - saves a little bit of time
overall.

[daRev]

You mention increasing the VBR cache, but I can't find any such setting in TMPGENc. I do se a VBR buffer. Is this the setting you are refering to and if so, what setting would you recommend? Currently it's set to auto.

TIA

da Rev

[BJ_M]

Well as far as I have read, TMPGEnc and CCE will not run correctly on a dual cpu system, so that Idea is out!

And as for upgrading the cpu that is out of the question at the moment!!! Due to that I just bought this pc 6 months ago. I went from a 450 to a 1.3mhz chip and very satisfied, I was just curious if this is ok.

Maybe eventually I could get antoher Hard Drive to write to just for doing movies. What are they running these days??? All I would really need would be something in the 10 gig range??? Partitioning it would not make any differnece as its still reading and writing to the same drive correct???

Thanks
Spankey

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i dont know where you heard that (dont work on dual cpu) - but both of them work VERY well on dual (and in fact quad) systems ... many people here (and myself) only run them this way and never had a problem ...

[spankey]

BJ M

I wasn't trying to flame anyone using this setup. I wish I could afford to do it myself.

I read it on several posts at the Doom web forum. I have been searching over there to, trying to find out ways to tweek my system and tmpgenc to perform better...

I can, in NO way afford a dual or quad system right now. I just spent $800 on this new tower as that was! My wife would CRAP a golden brick if I tell her that I need MORE POWER ? Hey maybe I could sell the brick? And then get upgrades for my PC???? HA AHAH AHAH

Sorry if my reply sounded flaming in anyway. The posts I might have read might have been for older versions of CCE and TMPGEnc. Thats my fault for not checking the dates... Sorry about that!!!!


Thanks for your time and efforts.. I appreciate them alot...

Spankey

ALso for setting the task priority to IDLE? Wouldn't that slow TMPGEnc down? ANd what should the other one be set at there are two settings?

[TeeeRex]

Spanky,

If you set the idle priority to high as well, I find that you lose control of your PC and don't get a decent response as TMPGENC takes ALL the available CPU. If you leave idle where it is (normal) then you can multitask (well NT multitask that is..) and leave TMPGENC in the background. True you won't get much CPU but at least you can browse the web or whatever - you can also do muxing etc during this time as this uses little or no CPU (just uses disk IO) which is not what TMPGENC needs while encoding anyway (just CPU)

Task priority works like this - if you only have TMPGENC loaded - then it will always get priority anyway - if you have other tasks loaded, then assuming they are normal prioity as well, TMPGENC will share the CPU etc (making it slower). Therfore my suggestion is to leave it on high priority and idle process on normal priority for the above reason ...

Just some thoughts...

[spankey]

TeeRex-

Thanks... I actually just finished ripping monsters inc last night!! I used the CCE instead of TMPGEnc for the first time. OMG

I used DVD2SVCD(Because I am lazy!!) and I choose 4 pass vbr. The enitre process was complete in 7 hours!!!!! Rip, audio,encode.....

I did Lord of the Rings the day before and I choose 2 pass in tmpgenc and just the encoding took 17hours!!! IF it was 4 pass, which tmpgenc doesn't have it would have taken me 34 hours most likely to encode it?

I still will use TMPGEnc but not for this process..CCE is the new candy for me now.....LOL

But thanks for the TMPGEnc settings... I will apply them for future use....

Spankey

[Executioner]

I use CCE when using DVD2SVCD when making a SVCD. If I decide to make a VCD, then I use TMPGEnc. CCE is the only way to go when making a SVCD.

I did Lord of the Rings several weeks ago, and the entire process from start to finish using DVD2SVCD took 17 hours on 4 pass with CCE. I have a dual PIII-550MHz system with 320 megs of ram running Win2k.