NEED CCE EXPERT! help!

[marhart71]

HI ,
I have a Pentium 3: 1Ghz, 256 memory.
I´m ripping with SVCD and the CCE encoder 2.5 but: I tried to rip Hannibal last night. To make the subs, audio, and the CCE info.vaf it took me 5 and half hours.
To make the cce mpv file . It took 22 hours ?? I had to abort at 18 %. The 18% mpv file was already 1,4 gig.????
I took off the downsampling for the audio and put in on none.
( I,ve read this safes a lot of time) I had the multipass VBR on 4. In the bitrate tab I changed the 740s to 790 ( Like the user guide says)Is this normal that it takes that long?? I know I''m doing something wrong??
Please help me
Thanks Marco

[Truman]

If the .vaf takes 5 1/2 hours, yes 22 hours for a 4pass encode is normal. But it seems to be a bit too long anyway. What a source file do you have, do you frameserve, did you add a lot of filters, what is the target resolution? And what does "..I changed the 740s to 790.." mean? Is that the bitrate?

[Jalfraag]

Using a Thunderbird 1.3 I get an encoding speed of 1.2, make sure you don't check 'use temporal smoother', I've found this can reduce speeds by half.

[Truman]

Is it possible, that you guys are talking about DVD2SVCD?
TemporalSmoother reduce the speed drastically, depending on strength and radius of course. But at very low bitrates it work wonders.