Encoding a svcd in 40hours???

[KidStick]

I would like to know if its normal that i take 40hours to encode a 150min movie. the bitrate is 1830kbps. Iam sure that is not normal but I would liek to know what the prob. I use tmpgenc 2.5.
Iam encodin it right now since yesterday 10:00pm and now the time is 6:00pm.
Plz help because I dont want to rip others dvd
sorry for my bad english...
thx
KidStick

I have a p3 700 and 256meg of ram..
maxtor 80gig at 7200rpm

[drewson99]

I think it is normal.

I have an Athlon XP 1800+ (about 1.5GHz I think) and 1GB of RAM and at the high quality settings (2 pass VBR - high motion quality) it took my computer 27 hours to encode a 170 minute movie.

Andy

[KidStick]

thx alot... but its very long

[LeeBear]

If you are encoding to MPEG2 (SVCD) I suggest you try out CCE. I know it's an expensive program... but there's always Kazaa

I've just encoded "We Were Soldiers" a 140 minute movies using 4-pass VBR, bicubic resize, and CCE and it only took 8 hours on a Athlon XP 1700+.

-LeeBear

[drewson99]

I have found that by carefully timing when I start my encoding I don't sit around waiting much. I set me encoding to be done when I go to be, and I rarely have a movie longer than 90-100 minutes. I burn CBR and good motion quality (instead of best) and it takes about 7 hours for 100 minute movie.

CBR is faster, since there is only one pass, and since I am burning to dvd-r I have that luxury, since the bitrate is usually at least 4000, so i don't usually need VBR. You may need to stick with VBR if allocation is your priority (on cdr it prolly is)

Andy

[Executioner]

Instead of 2-pass VBR, try CQ instead. I was able to copy Lord of the Rings on 3 CD's as a SVCD with a quality setting of 75, and a file size of 750 megs for each CD. The entire procedure took ~14 hours from start to finish on a Win2k OS, PIII-550 dual CPU's and 328 megs of ram.

[drewson99]

executioner - I'd love to use CQ instead, but how can one accurately tell what the file size will be at the end? I am using dvd-r, but I do still like to go as high as possible.

Andy

[Beautiful Alone]

I was able to copy Lord of the Rings on 3 CD's as a SVCD with a quality setting of 75, and a file size of 750 megs for each CD.

You set the bitrate on 75? if not, then how is it possible to put a 3 hour movie on a SVCD?

[KidStick]

Again, Thx alot for your help..
really appreciate
KidStick

[Executioner]

I was able to copy Lord of the Rings on 3 CD's as a SVCD with a quality setting of 75, and a file size of 750 megs for each CD.

You set the bitrate on 75? if not, then how is it possible to put a 3 hour movie on a SVCD?

The bitrate was NOT 75. The bitrate was 2520 with a quality setting of 75.

[Mxjshaf69]

Just use cbr or cq. If you use cq and the movie is barely too big, encode the audio to a lower bitrate. When i used cbr and motion estimate search (fast) for svcd on my old p3 500 mhz i could encode in 8 hours for a short 90 minute movie.

[Beautiful Alone]

I was able to copy Lord of the Rings on 3 CD's as a SVCD with a quality setting of 75, and a file size of 750 megs for each CD.

You set the bitrate on 75? if not, then how is it possible to put a 3 hour movie on a SVCD?

The bitrate was NOT 75. The bitrate was 2520 with a quality setting of 75.

where do you set the quality to 75? and how is it possible to put a 3 hour long SVCD movie on 3 cd-rs? did you downgrade the movie so it could fit on 3cd-r's?