Fastest Conversion

[ZoNE97]

I need to know what the fastest way to convert DVD data over to Xvid/Divx AVI.. All the DVD's in question have already been dumped to HDD and are ready for conversion. So far every application I have seen takes nearly and hour per DVD. I have somewhere around 40 that need to be converted (need to save space). Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[jagabo]

An hour per DVD is pretty good for a 3 GHz P4. My Core 2 Duo E6300 (currently stock CPU speed) takes about 30 minutes with Divx in its Balanced profile (single pass, constant quality, no b frames).

[John]

Im using handbrake at the moment, the speed of the mp4 converstions is outstanding. The quickest ive seen, at over 100 fps, and that was on my dual core 5600.

[ZoNE97]

I have an AMD 64bit cpu, but can only get around 24fps when converting. still around 1 - 2 hours per video?

[John]

i assume that that is h264, or xvid, if you change the box to mpeg 4, much faster, and very good results

[jman98]

Dr. Divx (http://www.drdivx.com) has a batch encoder, but unless you buy the commercial Divx codec (http://www.divx.com), it restricts the quality of your output.

Reduce the quality of your output and it will encode faster. jagabo's settings are a good place to start.

[guns1inger]

Ultimately, the only way to get large increases in speed while maintaining quality is to throw more hardware at it. Get the fastest dual core or better yet, quad core, that you can. If you have the money, buy the fastest dual core on the market. If you don't, get a solid quad core.

Otherwise, live with it.

[Noahtuck]

I need to know what the fastest way to convert DVD data over to Xvid/Divx AVI.. All the DVD's in question have already been dumped to HDD and are ready for conversion. So far every application I have seen takes nearly and hour per DVD. I have somewhere around 40 that need to be converted (need to save space). Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

You would have killed yourself back in the day when it took 18 hours minimum to convert a dvd to VCD!!!!!!!!!

Being a member since 2001, either you would know this, or you have been an absent member and not keeping up with things.........

[FulciLives]

I remember the days when converting a MJPEG capture to MPEG-2 DVD spec took me anywhere from 36 to 48 hours on my PIII 650Mhz WinXP machine with 256MB RAM.

1 or 2 hours? You got it easy LOL

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[ark]

I did my first conversion in 1999, a 3 hr long movie on DVD into divX3 using P2-330MHz.

It ONLY took about 48 hrs- leaving the PC on that single conversion task.

ZoNE97 - You have real easy life these days

[ark]

One bit of info - FFDShow codec is faster than XviD; I have not seen much of a quality difference in 2 pass conversions. The FFDShow takes about 60% time compared to KOEPI's XviD (using Vdub)

[ZoNE97]

Yeah Yeah, i have done the "start the conversion before bed thing" getting one dvd - vcd per night. But hey hardware has changed alot sense then. I figured software and new hardware would account for something..

[guns1inger]

It does - it now only takes an hour. Come back in another 6 years and it will take less.

[jagabo]

One bit of info - FFDShow codec is faster than XviD; I have not seen much of a quality difference in 2 pass conversions. The FFDShow takes about 60% time compared to KOEPI's XviD (using Vdub)

This may have more to do with the settings you used. There is a several fold difference in encoding time depending on the motion search precision settings with both codecs.