Problems with long conversion times

[loriet1]

Hello,

I am trying to convert an .avi file to mpeg. I am using the lastest version of TMPGEnc. I have followed the directions on the convert page. After starting the conversion, the time left is about 2.5 hours, but after coming back a few hours later - its up to 275!

I have a Dell PIII 866, 256 ram, and plenty of hard drive. I closed down all other programs except my firewall. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[nazimm]

Not an expert in the field but I have encoded about 12 DivX/AVi movies using TMPGEnc.....
I have an AMD Athlon and the most time it took to encode to MPEG was 5 hours for a 2h20 min movie. As an example, I encoded a 1h30 minutes movie yesterday and it took me 2h30 or so and I was print CD labels, surfing the net at the same time...no worries. My guess is that something went wrong somewhere down the line. When you cam back to check, how much did it encode (the percentage in the progress bar?). If it says 99%, that is the whole thing, you can stop it and be sure that it has all been done. Otherwise, stop the encoding, check the file size, if it looks big enough, then cahnces are it is done any way and you can view it to make sure.
The only thing that srings to mind is that, read that but forgot where, TMPGEnc has been designed apparently specifically for AMD processors and not Intel which you have. That may be the final cause and if so, try another encoder, Panasonic, LSEX, etc....
Hope this helps!
Nazim

[loriet1]

Thanks for your post.

After about 7 hours, it only gets to 3%.

Maybe I will try another one.

[Killer Joe]

Try a different version of tmpgenc. If it doesn't work either, try framserve the avi file with VirtualDub.