Does bitrate attribute to longer time to encode?

[dc91gt]

I usually do most my svcd rips at min - 1800 avg 22-2300 max 2400. Since it'll fit most movies on 2 cd's.

Last night I encoded a movie that was a little longer then usual, about 214K frames or about 2 hours.

I was going for a 3 cd version of it and basically used standard svcd settings for the avg (min 1800 - avg set to 2520, max 2613) but VBR-2 Pass as usual and highest quality.

Normally for a 180K frame movie it takes me about 5.5hrs to do.. for whatever reason, this one took 12 freakin hours. I must have set something differently, but i can't think what - i always use highest motion setting.

system is a XP1700, 768MB PC133, 320 Gig.

-d

[poopyhead]

more bitrate will take longer...

however, 1 thing to lower your time is that motion search accuracy...try setting that to high quality (slow), instead of highest quality (slowest)....the latter doesn't improve the quality very much (if at all), but adds alot to your encode time