tmpgenc ..... how do i speed it up /// HELP

[otter]

I had some earlier trouble with this program but mostly due to being a newbie to this whole vdc world (bought a dvd player a week ago). I now have TmpgEnc encoding to mpeg but part 1 of 2 of a movie is going to take over 8 hours .....
Is this normal ?? I am assuming, as well as hoping to He** that I have a setting wrong ... this seems like a lot of time for the conversion ....

Any help is appreciated ... :-?
Have a great night !!!
Otter

[invisibler]

go into:

options - environmental settings - CPU

..and make sure that you have enabled all available from: MMX, MMX-2 , SSE, SSE-2, 3D-Now...

once you've already done so, fastest single thing you can do to speed up processing is faster CPU...

[MOVIEGEEK]

In TMPGEnc go to settings> motion precision search>set to "motion
estimation search".

[Bullworth]

Need a little more info otter. What are your system specs and how long is the movie you're encoding?

[trunkims]

go into:

options - environmental settings - CPU

..and make sure that you have enabled all available from: MMX, MMX-2 , SSE, SSE-2, 3D-Now...

once you've already done so, fastest single thing you can do to speed up processing is faster CPU...

Is there anyway to make it all available? becaue I can only select MMX, should I select 'Use Multi-thread' also?....

I have a slow comp as well....for me a 20 minute episode takes about 6 hours to convert....

[invisibler]

if you can only enable MMX and not MMX-2 or the others, then I assume you have a pentium II processor which is 450mhz or less...if this is the case, then it will simply take quite awhile for you to do your encoding...

only enable "'Use Multi-thread" if your computer has multiple processors which I assume it doesn't...if my assumption about your processor is correct, then your option for speeding up encoding is simply to upgrade to a faster processor...

as Bullworth asked, what are your system specs?

[otter]

Being a newbie, this may sound stupid but I don't know how to tell how long the movie is

As for the system specs ... I have 320mb ram on an AMD 350 processor .... I am guessing that maybe this is getting just toooo old now ??
Thank you to all who posted replies to my question. If you have any other ideas, I am always listening ....

Have a great day ...
Otter

[fantomlord]

you could also try under Option-->task priority
that should speed the process up some