is it suppose to take this long?

[wolfrider]

learning to burn movies to one cd I read some post and posted some questions from all that I have gathered I am attempting this ... and one big question comes to mind,, going with the what seems to be the best info and suggestion I have set up a template as 900 bitrate and 192 audio bitrate with a 2 pass vbr I know that they said this would take longer but would help to keep the quality better. and the post said it was taking him like 10 hours compared to regular 4 or 5 hours.

So my question is I have a approx. 90 minutes movie I am going on 14 hours of converting and I am only 70 percent done. does this sound right? or might I be setting some things wrong.

My system is 1800+ amd
512 meg mem.
geforce 4 ti 4200 video.

Just wondering because the person said their machine was a bit slow and it was taking them 10 hrs.. and being that im on 14 and only 70 % good Lord my machine must be REALLY slow.

[ABAB]

Your spec's suggest your puter isn't slow by any means. Have you loaded a load of filters for your encode?.
I have similar specs' to you and if I load o load of filters it takes me 10-15 hours to encode a 90-120 min' film to SVCD using 2 pass.

[Gazorgan]

Athlon 2400+, W2K, 512 MB DDR RAM. I encode overnight. 2-pass VBR to 2-3 disks, full audio conversion of the 5.1 soundtrack. Typically it takes 8-11 hours from ripping to final bin/cue creation.

Here's a BIG tip. In you motion precision, do NOT select the highest setting, this only doubles your encode time. Try the #2 or even #3 setting. The 'normal' motion search precision does a pretty good job, it jsut depends on the movie (slow chick flick versus fast action flick). This greatly speeds encoding time (at the cost of quality, but I can tell no difference between highest and second highest).

[Ironballs]

What are you converting from to and what are you using for the conversion.

If its say DIVX to MPG2 wiith 2 pass, 10 hours seems a little long, but not unreasonable. Are you running any other processes?

[JayT]

Have you had a look at the speed setting 'Motion Search Precision' obviously the faster the lesser quality and so on. 14 hours doesn't sound that bad , i tend to use CBR not VBR , as u say it takes almost twice as long with that setting.

[ZippyP.]

I just did a 2-pass VBR all on one disk VCD, 90 min. movie. Motion Search set to slow, sharpening 30-30, soften block noise 35-35, 1.6 GHz. Athlon...it took 4 hrs.

There is a setting in TMPGEnc under environmental settings to cache the first pass. If you have the room this should be set to 5 GB. or so. That setting cut my encoding time by 25% at least. It might only be in TMPGEnc plus though, I'm not sure.

Any other filtering will greatly increase encode time. Are you running anything else in the background?

[wolfrider]

Wow thanks guys alot of good info here , appreciate it alot, will try some different settings.

And for those that was wondering I was converting from a divx to a mpeg file and as for filters the only filter I was using was the noise reduction filter. but everything else was default so I will look into those other things mentioned.

and again really appreciate all the good advice!

[ZippyP.]

Yes, the noise reduction adds a lot of time.
Alternative: use the noise filter in Vdub and frameserve to TMPGEnc instead!

[ABAB]

ZippyP, I've tried that frameserve with noise filter thing but didn't manage to get the kind of results I can get using TMPG's noise filter (although it was much quicker).
Can you tell me which V/dub filter you used and a rough guide to your settings so I can try it properly?.

Cheers

[Mr Grumpy]

One thing that seriously affected performance for me once, was I got low on disk space, and that spaces was quite fragmented.

An encode that typically takes around 4 hours took 9 hours. Clearing some disk space, and it went back to normal.

It might help you, it might not.

[bizeebee]

I'm looking to get a new computer soon but right now if it would only take 10 hours to encode a movie I would be grateful. I am using an AMD 533 256 RAM and it takes anywhere from 18 - 35 hours to encode and that is without using filters of any kind. So, 10 hours is not a lot of time when you look at how long it takes for me. I know others on here have faster computers and it doesn't take them near as long.

[ZippyP.]

ZippyP, I've tried that frameserve with noise filter thing but didn't manage to get the kind of results I can get using TMPG's noise filter (although it was much quicker).
Can you tell me which V/dub filter you used and a rough guide to your settings so I can try it properly?.

Cheers

I don't normally use noise filtering unless the clip I have is very poor quality. Here's a thread that might have a few tips for you as well as links to other discussions: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148978

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