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[CaptainChaos]

Hi again .... you guys have been really helpful recently ..... Thanks!

Using DVD2SVCD, CCE, TMPGEnc & Nero to "do" an avi film to dvd+r .... I followed a "divx > dvd+r" tutorial to the letter recently & nearly fainted when I started it all and saw how long it was going to take just to get it to the burning stage!!

If I reduce the number of passes, will that save a bit of time (I had it set to 2 passes) or will it lose quality if I reduce it to 1 pass?

Is there another way to save a bit of time? Im just impatient & lazy lol

Ty in advance for the inevitable cries of "just wait for it to do what its supposed to, you lazy git!" from you lol

[funkguy4]

Ok, here's a super short way to do it, just, if your source is neither 4:3 or 16:9 then you'll probably want to go to my guide and then use one of the other guide for burning. Actually, just use my guide anyways, here it is:

MY GUIDE!

You'll need VDub TMPGEnc, and some authoring tool.

[Vejita-sama]

Your profile says you have an Althon 900 so running CCE I would predict about ~1.5x source runtime per pass (that is for a 2hr movie it would take 3hrs per pass).

Is that about right. It depends on the filters, codec used for source, resize, etc. etc.

Anyway, encoding is slow. VERY slow and VERY CPU dependant. When I was running my AMD K6-2 500 machine it took me ~18hrs+ to encode a MPEG1 video w/ TMPGEnc (SeVCD template) from a 90min DivX source (and that was one pass, CQ_VBR encode).

[funkguy4]

OK, so :P

[CaptainChaos]

ok ok ok I consider myself told now lol

Ty & see you in a fortnight .... I just hope it blimming works now!