How much time to you spend on encoding? Worth it?

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After many reading, searching, encoding and burning, I'll say only two types of formats woth for waiting, Divx or CVD.

I had a CD writer and believe DVD writer will become a standard writer for every computer sooner or later. So if I going to burn a video-disc and watch it on TV, then CVD or better say 352x480/576, is the only option.
Just play around with CBR or VBR, I'll able to create from "Very-good-30mins-per-CD" to "Acceptable-70mins-per-CD".

But, even I'm using a powerful machine (I believe so) AMD 3200+ with 1GB ram and a 8MB cache HD, it will take 10-14 times of the video's length for 2pass encoding.


Therefore, others not-worth-to-wait video will encode in Divx-MP3 format, each CD can store about 90mins in VBR850kbps/192kbpsMP3.

Using 2passVBR Divx encode only take about 2 times the video's length, not to bad after all. :P


Anyone can tell a better options or alternatives?

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BTW, could someone explain what so special about KVCD/KDVD?

kvcd.com not even talk much about it. Isn't it just series of "Kwag's favorite settings"? If using KVCD/KSVCD why not CVD?