GKnot Encoding Time

[tupton]

I've ripped and converted dozens of DVD's with other tools, but I made my first attempt with GKnot the other day. I wanted to rip a DVD to Divx. The rip went fine and I followed the guide pretty well, but it ended up taking over 30 hours to encode the AVI. I used tow passes as the gude suggested. I don't remember changing any of the default settings other than changing the output resolution to around 720 x 350 or so. The movie (Finding Nemo) was about 2 hours long and although the converted Divx AVI is excellent quality, I'm wondering did I miss something in the guide or is this encoding time "normal"?

[teegee420]

That does sound a little excessive, even for your 1200mhz CPU. It shouldn't take more than around 8 hours. Maybe you should try another method.

[tupton]

Sorry, my profile was out of date. It's actually 2 GHz...

[teegee420]

Wow, even worse!

[RabidDog]

Try using AUtoGK to do exactly the same movie with exactly the same settings.. it will be about five times faster. I, too wonder why this happens GK v. slow, AGK fast...

[ching0]

as i refuse to install divx on my computer, i can tell you why xvid would take 30 hours to encode.
the better your motion search precison and vhq mode, the longer it will take to encode. i know divx has the motion search precision, try setting it to 4 or 5, since most people dont skip through the avi anyway. in xvid, i keep the vhq on "1-mode decision" and it takes a 2 hour long movie about 55 minutes to encode. but i have a p-4 2.8ghz with 800mhz fsb, so it'll probably take you 1.5-2 hours. i'm pretty sure divx added that vhq mode in 5.1.