TMPGEnc is good but too SLOW! Can I increase the speed?

[thatgentleman]

Hi, I love the program TMPGEnc - it generally works great for me. The only issue I have is that it is very slow on my computer. It takes about an hour and forty minutes for me to convert one 40MB file (about 22 minutes of movie) at the "high quality" setting...

I tried it out with a computer at work and it took only about 35 minutes. What can I do to optimize my conversion speed with TMPGEnc without reducing the video quality? I'm sure my computer should be faster w/ it...

[CrazyDemon]

It would really help if you posted some system specs.

[thatgentleman]

800 Mhz AMD Athlon, 4X CD-Rewrite, 20 Gig Hard Drive, can't think of the RAM-probably 16 or something I don't know... It was top of the line two years ago (don't laugh, I know that means jack today)..

[aaerosoladdict]

you cant have 16 mb of ram ad 800mhz......thats impossible......
and if u do have 16 lol then thats why tmpgenc is so slow for u..

[thatgentleman]

Hah, Yeah, I hear you there...I have to admit though it's probably not a great deal more, I think my RAM IS low for the system I have - and that's probably a decent part of the problem.

The main question though was this: IN GENERAL, is there something the layman computer-user, using a typical layman computer can do to speed up the conversion process?

I'm referring to options either within the TMPGEnc program, freeing up other system resources or just SOMETHING else that I don't know about (and I don't know about those things I just mentioned...I was just throwing those out there)...

[NeWcS]

Heres the best way to do it on a slow system:

Load Video>Load Audio>Load Templete>Hit Start>Go To Sleep>Dream About Your Favorite Hot Chick>Wake Up>Brush Teeth>Eat>Watch Movie

[revjake]

Two things...

First, the whole "motion estimate search (fast), normal, high quality (slow)" motion search parameters are pretty much useless.

Select normal. The differences between it and the highest quality are practically unnoticable, and it'll save LOTS of time encoding.

Also, on the options menu you can choose the task priority of Tmpgenc. Make it high---speeds things up a bit.

Also, RAM is good. Lots of it is good. Speeds everything up.

If all else fails, remember that an Athlon XP 2100 motherboard/CPU combo is going for $308 this very second on pricewatch.com.

[spidey]

Encoding is pretty much ALL processor driven, so your lack of memory shouldn't effect it much, but I would still recommend worrying about that more than the speed of TMPG.

I would recommend increasing your thread priority as above mentioned. Also DISABLE the preview (same area of settings).

And to save yourself the misery of personnaly waiting on it. Save your encodes in Project files, and batch encode during off hours.

Also, do to your memory issue, make sure ALL other applications are disabled or off in your Systray.

[revjake]

Oh yeah... forgot about the whole preview thing. He's quite right.

If you're using any of Tmpgenc's filters, that also slows things down a whole lot. If ya don't need 'em, don't use 'em, including any frame rate conversions you may be doing. Unless you have an overriding pathological need to convert 24fps to 30, don't.

It seems to me that the newest version of Tmpgenc is a bit faster, too---do you have 12.153 (I think that's it, I'm not at my encoding setup right now)?