How long does it take when you convert a 40 mins avi movie?

[ericyjh]

i tried to convert the first part of blade2, and it took me 1 hour to just convert 15 minutes of it, so i was wondering is it really that long for you guys too? or just me.

[Mirror_Image]

Depends on the PC. For a Pentium-II 233MHz that's really superb, but for a heavily overclocked P4-2200/Athlon XP2100+ it's really bad.

[El_Mero_Zooter]

Depends a lot on cpu, ram, tsr's, what other tasks im running but on average....

for a filename{1of2}.avi =

p4----about thirty mins
athlon 1700---about thirty-six to forty mins

with tmpgenc on high quality (slow).....


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[m_lea1]

i do not agree with that El_Mero_Zooter. This is why:

1. I feel that the athlon processor is faster than the P4
2. You cannot make those time estimates when you dont even know the format which its being encoded to.

I have a p4 1.5ghz and to convert a 40min movie it can take alot more than 30mins.

my system specs are:

P4 1.5
256mb rdram
60gb HD 7200rpm

and i also shut all other progs when encoding. so could you give me some system specs of the p4 which could encode this in such a short time?

[m_lea1]

and os win xp

[sumibas]

my P4 1.3 512 RDRAM does a DVD to VCD Conversion using CCE 2p 2.5 and DVDx at 1.24 X real time.

[m_lea1]

ahh i cannot comment fully on converting to vcd i have only converted to svcd with cce. what os are you using when your getting this low encode time?

[pvdh]

i tried to convert the first part of blade2, and it took me 1 hour to just convert 15 minutes of it, so i was wondering is it really that long for you guys too? or just me.

On average it takes my p4-1k6 about 50 minutes to convert a 45 minute TV episode Xvid to VCD

It all depends on what you are converting into what, how much RAM/what CPU etc..

[El_Mero_Zooter]

M,
so yeah, i did make some omissions. my apologies. With some of the appz that are optimized for the P4 i.e. dvdx 1.8 i can crank out a vcd in just under 2.75 hrs. Thatz on fastest settings, and yes the quality does take a hit. Its fast though. Svcd takes longer. When encoding from avi (angel, divx, krystal, etc...) in tmpgenc to vcd or xvcd, it takes on average thirty to forty five minutes, depends on da length of the avi. Thats for half of a movie, one file. So up to about an hour n a half for the full movie. file 1of2, file 2of2.avi. Cce is tha fastest though, about four to four and a half hours for a two pass vbr, svcd @ 2200-128, from ripp, encode with chapters & subs, bin/cue creation to burn at 12 to 20x for both images on my p4.

On some of the tests im doing, the p4 is somewhat faster for mpg2, and da athlon is faster for mpg4. The athlon does appear to be faster overall, booting up, loading the shell, etc. Some appz are more stable on the P4, some have bugz on the amd's. For the money though, athlon, is the way to go for mpg/vcd encodez. It really does match up to the p4. It's not a direct comparison since both of my systems are not equal, but see the specs below, and amd will be just faster or as fast, even with the differences in hardware. With my p4 though, I can capp at 720x480 dvd mpg2 without dropping any frames at all, so that's kewl. But you'll see what I mean.

P4, 1.9ghz
512+mb rambus,
Quantum 60 gig hd, 7200rpm for video,
windows 2000 , sp1, fat32 & ntfs
windows 98 se,

Athon XP 1700, 1.47ghz
192 mb, sdram,
Quantum 20 gig hd, 7200rpm for video,
windows 98 se,
windows XP Pro,


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