DVD-9 to DVD-5 conversion times

[jcuervo811]

I am fairly new to converting DVD-9 to DVD-5 and I was wondering how long does the conversion take most of you people and with what kind of pc system. Right now I am running a P-III/500, so I am guessing it will probably take me about 12 hours or so. About as long as it takes me to convert DVD to VCD. Thanks for any replies.

Jcuervo811

[Niceone]

hi

depends on many things

such as whether the dvd9 is small enough to fit straight onto a dvd-r (very quick)

or whether it doesnt quite fit and you can get away with ripping some extras or streams(pretty quick)

or whether it is still too big and the video has to be transcoded (encoding takes quite a while)

If the film is very long then some people prefer to rip the main movie and reencode the main movie and have just that and the main audio stream on the dvd with no menus etc.. made with something like scenarist.

Both the bottom 2 take quite a while, on my XP1600 using CCE it takes me about 3-4 hours for a video analysis and 1 pass (equiv to 2 passes) and then 1h-90mins for scenarist to make it and the ripping of the dvd in the first place

Hope this helps, its pretty brief but im in a hurry :P

[jcuervo811]

If the DVD is a dual layer that is too big to fit onto a DVD-R, can IFOEdit strip out the movie plus one audio track without having to reencode it just to make it fit? Or is IFOEdit actually doing the reencoding while it is stripping the movie out? Is IFOEdit a time-consuming process? I have never used IFOEdit and I am waiting for my replacement harddrive from Maxtor to get here to test it. As it stands right now, I don't have enough space on my harddrive to play with this program. Sorry if these are newbie questions. I am much more familiar with DVD to VCD.

Jcuervo811

[eatin sammiches for lunch]

hahahaha.....u have about the same slow azz processor that i have

ok u better grab a good copy of CCE to do your encoding unless u want EXTREMELY long encoding times

ok for a 2 hour movie.....using 2pass cce encode takes me about 13 or 14 hours....it takes longer than that doing 1 pass encode with tmpg or rempeg

[MustISO]

jcuervo811, yes, IFOEdit will strip out just the movie and one audio track. Sometimes this is enough and the movie will fit with no further encoding. IFOEdit does not have the functionality to re-encode. If you're talking about just stripping the movie it takes about 1 hour. Figure 15 min to 30 min for DVDDecrypter to copy the files to your HD and then another 30 min for the IFOEdit part. If the files are still too large, then use CCE to re-encode.