tmpgenc speed during dvd encoding

[SIRCOOKS]

i may blow my own horn here, but i consider myself the xvcd authoring pro, and everything goes well for me when i produce one of them...................now i just got my sony dru to burn and backup my dvds...im using ulead dvd movie factory which is the shit...but my encoding in tmpgenc taked up ward of 8hours, i gave some advice on how to get this process to speed up on encoding to vcd in an earlier thread, but is there another process i need to do in order to get a better encoding time for my movies...i have a hp pavilion, p4 2.0ghz igb of ddrram, thats right im very powerfull...thats exactly why it shouldn't take this long, or is that beacause it is so highly bitrated...holla back

[housepig]

holla...

I'm running a 1.5ghz / 768Mb ram box, and my TMPGenc encodes (from dvd-spec .avi, Huffyuv codec captures) take between 5x and 6x the original material.

So 8 hours for (I'm assuming) a 2 hour movie is doing well, by my lights.

[SIRCOOKS]

damn thats crazy man...i need something quicker...doesn't main concept encode pretty quick

[txpharoah]

Capture MPEG directly. Save time that way. Read the guide in my sig.

[housepig]

for me, TMPGenc gives me the best quality.

I've tried Main Concept, CCE, Ligos & Procoder. Either they were too user-unfriendly (CCE, Procoder) or the quality wasn't there.

And when I say "the quality wasn't there" it means that with the same amount of customizing settings and dicking around with the program, TMPGenc gave me better quality.

I know some people swear by CCE or Main Concept, but for me, CCE was a big pain that didn't yield significantly better results, and Main Concept was fast as hell, but produced the ugliest encodes of the bunch.

I just ran a bunch of tests last weekend, encoding the same two clips (one b&w clip from an old Lon Chaney movie from laserdisc, the other the Beastie Boys "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" video - lots of motion, different video sources & processes - a good piece of encoder test footage IMHO... also from laserdisc).

On 3 different screens, 3 different players, 3 different people, and multiple encode settings for each clip, TMPGenc was the consistent winner.

And while I'd love to cap directly to mpeg, I tried PowerVCR, WinDVR and NeoDVD's capture app. With all of them, the quality was significantly better if I captured to Huffyuv-codec avi, then converted with TMPGenc. So if it's a quick and dirty, or from a really poor source anyway, I'll go straight to mpeg, but not for stuff where I want quality.

But as I said, this is all for me. Obviously Txpharoah and others have totally different means, method and results. When you get down to where the bear craps in the buckwheat, it's going to take trial and error before you settle on your method.

good luck. don't get eyestrain.

[Oliver]

Can anyone reply with their TMPGEnc encoding speeds on a hyperthreaded P4, high quality, with the multithread option turned on? I'm looking to upgrade my motherboard, and am wondering what speed gains I should expect.