Speeding up Tmpgenc..

[meandhers]

Greetings,
I have done successful rips and the quality is gr8, but It is takin like 15hrs to encode a 2 1/2hours movie... Any suggestion on how to speed this up even if I have to lose a little of the quality(not toomuch though)
Also, How come when a WS ratio movie gets ripped, it looks like an older 70's movie, when I leave the ratios the same???
Thanks!

[Mars-L]

15 hours for a 2 1/2 hour movie ? I wish I could reach that (PIII / 500Mhz / 256 MB). If you wanna keep the quality high you have to live with it probably, or buy a faster CPU, more RAM. Or spend BIG$$ on CinemaCraft.

Lowering the quality will speed it up ofcourse.

[themamboman]

If you are using 2pass VBR, try switching to CQ or CQ_VBR. It's single pass VBR with constant image quality.

Your files will likely increase in size though, as the encoder has a harder time controlling bitrate in these schemes.

Multi-pass (like 3 pass) on CCE doesn't seem to work as good for me as TMPGEnc on my Athlon Thunderbird. I'm 1.2ghz right now, and prepping to go to 1.4.