TMPGEnc takes DAYS for a conversion

I need help.

I am using TMPGEnc to convert a 200MB asf file to MPEG format for PAL VCD. I select the ASF file to convert and use the template for VideoCD PAL format. I then click start and it says it is going to take 30 hours!!!! This is on a PIII 700Mhz with 512MB RAM. Surely this is not right. I left it running for 2 hours thinking that it might sort it self out but after 2 hours it had just got under 10 percent of the way through. TMPGEnc was also only ever using a few percent of my CPU resources.

The other thing was that I stop the conversion after two hours and viewed the MPG file it had generated so far. The picture was fine but the audio played for the first 2 seconds and then it was muted for the rest of the clip.

Anyone got any information it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Corta2863]

I have found it takes forever to convert .asf in TMPGENC too. What I did to speed it up a lot is just open the asf in Virtual Dub(you'll need VS 1.3c of virtual and the SMR codec found under the tools section of this site) and frameserve it. One .asf file was going to take 30 hours for me too, but when I did that it only took 5 hours(average time it takes for any movie on my system.)

Hopes this helps!!!

[jphoenix]

Good tool to use is ASF Tools, u can convert ASF to AVI, and TMPG will happily conver this file for u.

Give it a go.

http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/

> http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/

Pity it's illegal

Microsoft has patents restricting this sort of thing - read here:
http://www.advogato.org/article/101.html

[shochan]

use avisynth to save the wav file. then load your asf in tmpgenc and for the audio put the saved wave file. that might help speed you up.