Shortest time to convert DVD to VCD

[CP]

Hi, Was wondering wht is the known shortest time it takes to convert a DVD to VCd at good viewable quaility.

Cos. so far all the software i have used would require me, at lease 5hrs to encode the DVD files, thus due to the long time taken i have yet to convert any DVD to VCD yet.

Like to know of any sloutions, and the time total time it would take. Thank you.

[wizdreaming]

Hi there hope you dont mind me jumping on board on this one I also would like to know how to convert a dvd to vcd(2cds), dont mind how long it takes, have a vcd player and want to take some o my films on hols with us.

Regards

Steve

wizdreaming1970@aol.com

[davemcg37]

first, it depends on what processor u have. ive got a p4 1.5 ghz and it takes around 5 hours start to finish, secondly there's a load of excellent guides on this site for converting dvd to vcd

[CP]

Hi there, Thx you for the reply. Yes my system is abit close to urs. I'm running on a p4 1.33 and 5 hrs was the time i got too. Was wondering if anyone has got anything shorter, as in any idea how i can get it done in a shorter time. Somethng like 2hrs? hope its possible.

[BJ_M]

get a faster system will do it for you ..

also depends on what encoding software you are using ...

[scottb721]

My process is listed below. I have an AMD1800 CPU.
Rips take about 8mins, DVD2AVI about 5mins and TMPGEnc, well,
CBR takes not quite 2x the length of the source and VBR is not quite 4x source length.
I do my SVCDs to 2 CD-Rs.

For TMPGEnc,
Best way to do it is to always add new encode projects to the batch file then let them run when you are doing something else.
When you do encodes from the batch file there is the option for the PC to turn itself off after encoding is complete.

It's amazing how much gets done when you aren't sitting there watching the Time Remaining counter.

It's all about CPU speed.

[gmatov]

CP,
I'm a convert to DVD2SVCD, but used DVDx 2.2 (and earlier) for a few months.DVD2SVCD takes about 10 hours to do a 2 1/2 hour SVCD.
DVDx does a 2 1/2 hour XVCD in less than 4 hours. I have gone as high as 2300kbps to fill up the second or third disk.It takes twice as long for SVCD.
(you set the bit rate; I set it to fill the second or third disk, since if I have to change CDRs for the last 10 minutes, why don't I get better quality and change halfway through instead?)
A note of warning. Try one at a higher rate to see if they'll play on your machine. Don't forget to click the "Whole" button over the final size box, or it defaults to 10000 frames, and will say "aw done" after about 10 minutes of movie. Don't check audio/video sync, as the read me says it can make a ticking noise in the output.
It's completely free, so give it a try. Nothing to lose but 3 hours or so.
Also, there's a "DVD drive saver" feature to spin up the DVD and read to a RAM buffer. Since conversion takes up your whole CPU, you might as well make the buffer as large as your free RAM will permit. I set it to 100 meg and it rebuffers every 5 or 6 minutes, maybe 20-25 times per DVD.
My machine is AMD 1800XP+, 512 RAM, numerically the same as your 1.53 Pentium. (But we all know AMD is better.

[kalus69]

for vcd - encode with mainconcept encoder 1.3.1. 90min film will encode in about 60mins using p4 2ghz. excellent quality too. maybe not quite as good as tmpgenc but it sure beats waiting hours on end for ir to finish ecoding.
if you don't mind waiting for tmpenc i recommend using the kvcd templates. you can fit films (2hrs plus) on 1 cdr at excellent quality. i use this method alot. it halves the amount of cdr's i use and it beats swapping disks in the middle of a film. more info goto www.kvcd.net

[Mrsash]

Amazing i did this test today with a couple of software i have

Dvd backup 6.6
dvdcopyone
copy dvd to cdr 6.1.1
Moviejack latest version

I was backing up scorpion king got perfect quality with dvd2one, but that left aside coz its dvd9to dvd5 copy

I did the entire movie with all 4 listed above and found Dvd backup 6.6 the fastest. I got 21fps on winxp, almost realtime took 1hour 49 min

I used to do all other stuff like flask, dvd2avi etc but the quality on this one was the same and i had set it to best quality. I think its a waste of time doing all the other way coz it takes time to set it up especially when there is no more quality gain, but thats my opinion