How can I improve CCE performance?

[The_Hermit1971]

I need help findindg ways to improve CCE performance. Please consider everything, even tweaking my hardware but without changing anything please. Thanks in advance.

[SaSi]

I assume you want encoding to take less time.

A gereral purpose tweak is to encode video and audio separatelly. What I mean is to run the encoder once only to produce audio and then another session to produce video.

The benefit is that the encoder (not only CCE, all of them) will read the input stream and write to an output stream. Not two at the same time, in which case the HD heads will spend most of the time moving back-and forth, gradually destroying the HD and producing fragmentation.

This trick makes wonders, especially in faster systems where the disks become the biggest bottleneck. On my system, doing both audio and video decreases overall performance by more than 50%. Of course it takes time to encode audio, however encoding it separately is something that takes almost a minute (and not 3 hours).

However, I suspect that you are interested in producing MPG program streams, i.e. multiplexed video with audio, and not separate elementary streams. If so, you can use any multiplexing program (e.g. Tmpgenc's utilities) to re-mux them and make an MPG file.

If you post the settings you use in CCE, people may find some settings that can be used to increase speed without deteriorating quality.

Also, don't overclock the CPU. It will only make the system unstable and long encoding sessions may crash midway.

[The_Hermit1971]

Thanks SaSi for your reply: I´m converting DVD to SVCD with DVD2SVCD. I´m using CCE´s Multipass encoding with 3 passes and "Image Quality priority" of 17. If you need more details please post a reply.