Is this taking too long?

[joe-mamma]

I've been on the vcd scene for a while but up until today hadn't gottena a chance to try dvd ripping. Finally one of my friends got a new top of the line amd that I helped him pick out. It has a 32mb agp videocard, 60 GB HD, 128 Mb of Ram with a 200 Mhz bus speed, and It runs at 1.2 GHz

Now using Dvd decrypter it took us 1hr 5min to rip a 1hr 47min movie and I'm looking at about 6-8 hrs to encode to vcd format. Do these figures sound right? What are the fastest programs?

Thanks

[alucard2050]

i use CLADDVD. it takes me about 20-30 minutes to rip a DVD. my pc is only 900mhz with 256ram. i havn't tried any others.......

[Vejita-sama]

Without knowing the resolution, settings, filters, encoder, etc. I can't say how long it takes to encoed. W/ CCE on my Tbird 1.2Ghz it's about 1.1x the source runtime per pass.

As for the ripping speed, that's pretty bad. Make sure that DMA is enabled and try sync data transfer too. I have a 12x Delta and normally rip between 3.5~8x w/ smartripper.

[bluntman]

I have a Celeron 1Ghz, 128mb ram. Ripping takes only 10min, but the encoding in TMPEG with 2pass vbr, rest is default,and it takes 17hours. Seems awfully long time. What can I do to speed it up?

[joe-mamma]

Hey bluntman, what where you using to rip? Also I haven't been able to decode the vob properly, I used the DVDx program as a frameserver to tmpgenc but right at the end I got some error message from tmpg and when I went to play the video it locked up Windows Media Player. Last night I just said screw it and set it up for Flask and in ~ 2hrs it got between 33-40% done but I believe that it still had to decode the audio so hopefully after I left my buddies last night everything went well.

Thanks for all of the replies.

Also for the amount of time invested is SVCD worth it and can I still fit a movie on 2 CDs if I do?

[xzarkad]

I use smartripper, and it takes me about 10 mins. The CPU is not that important, the Harddisk and RAM are more important.
I use a 1.4 Athlon, with 256MB DDRam.

My previous system was a 750 Mhz Durun with 256MB SDRam. Using TMPGEnc, it took me 6 hours for a 120 mins movie.
With my current system it takes me about 3 hours.

I sounds like the system with the 1.2 Athlon is not configured well at all.