Is there a Faster way?

[nutt318]

I was wandering if there is a faster way to take an movie in .avi to .mpg. I am using TMPGenc and converting avis to mpg in dvd file size. It takes about 3 + hours per movie to convert. Is there any other way to do this faster?

Also I did my first dvdr with ulead trial version...... is there a way to specify the burn speed, it seemed to take a while.

Thanks,

[Tommyknocker]

Why not just encode while you sleep?

[nutt318]

I do do that but I have about 40 movies on my hardrive.......unless thats the only way. Because I want to convert all of my svcd videos to dvdr.

Oh also, I just want to take the finished mpg and copy it to dvdr, what program is the easiest to do this with out making menus and stuff like that.

[nutt318]

any help? someone......anyone.

[nailbmb]

It takes about 3 + hours per movie to convert.

hey, that's better than 23 hours so don't feel bad.

[nutt318]

It takes about 3 + hours per movie to convert.

hey, that's better than 23 hours so don't feel bad.

23 hours.....ouch. How fast is your computer, or what are you converting. I dont think I could wait that long

[johneboy]

23 hours.....ouch. How fast is your computer, or what are you converting. I dont think I could wait that long

33 hours for The Shawshank Redemption, on my AMD 500. Highest Quality Motion Detection..

[nutt318]

How long of a movie is that....like the playing time. And 33 hours, Holy sh*t are you serious. I dont think I could not use my computer for that long

[johneboy]

How long of a movie is that....like the playing time.

um, i think its a bit over 2 hours...

Holy sh*t are you serious

unfortunately...yes
i usually set it to encode before i go to bed at night.. then let it go.. for a long time...

i need a dedicated encoding machine

[Treebeard]

If it takes 3 hrs per movie you could encode like 3 or 4 each night while you sleep. Are you using the batch encode in tmpgenc? you could batch encode 4 movies each night and be done in 10 days

[tgpo]

Runtime: 142 min

[0 kewl]

Shawshank is 142 minutes long (2h 22min) http://us.imdb.com/Title?0111161 .

johneboy,

Don't use Highest Motion Detection, use High as there's almost no difference (i can't see it with my eye) in quality but a big difference in time needed to encode. I tried 1 clip (3min 34 sec) with Highest and High (Mpeg 2 VBR 2 pass): highest=10min, high=7min. With this difference you can cut encoding time from 33 hours to 23 hours.

[banjazzer]

It takes about 3 + hours per movie to convert. Is there any other way to do this faster?

I think many would be happy with this speed of encoding. Considering what is happening when you encode, then this seems quite reasonable. You can speed things up by lowering quality, increasing PC power, choosing VCD, or using CCE (for SVCD). However, if I was happy with quality and could do all my movies in around 3 hours I would consider myself very fortunate. 8)

[nutt318]

Well I guess i shouldnt complane because Im converting avi to dvd quality around 4000 kbits i think. So Im doing pretty good. Oh how do I crank up the power of the program so it processes them faster. I use TMPGenc and use a batch file so it goes over night. I started last night about 11 doing 5 movies and its almost done with the 4 movie. So about 14 = 4 movies so thats three and a half hours.

Oh yeah, Does anyone know what program would be the best after these get done encodeing so I can burn them on to dvdr. I want to simply burn them on without creating menues if thats possible, I done Formula 51 last night and made a menu. It worked pretty slick with Ulead. Only the menu picture was a little off on the left side. Anyways Ive heard Sonic DVDit is pretty good and im downloading that now.

One more question. Is there any way to make an exact copy of a DVD movie with all of the menues and other bonus material they come with and copy it do a DVDr. Like an exact copy if there is such a thing yet.

Let me know, Thanks

[Baldrick]

nutt318: please STICK to your own topic, authoring and ripping questions does not belong here.

[nutt318]

Just asking a question, dint know I had to post each question in a different area.

Sorry

[Keitaro]

faster machine = less time converting

[vcdfreak]

Please state how much faster you want it to be? Probably you can consider a dual processor system as suggested by someone recently: Dual P4 Xeon system! Or 3 GHz P4 with Hyperthreading! (Coming soon). Or even overclock your 2.8GHz P4 to 3.5GHz.

If minor improvement in speed is adequate, try preview with thinning or don't preview frame at all and avoid fixing the preview frame size if you are previewing at all. Hope this helps!

[nutt318]

I see, I hear that the new hyperthreading with intel is supposed to be really fast.

[Greg12]

so ur going SVCD-DVD?


Just feed the mpegs into DVDIT PE, go to audio settings and change it to Dolbey Digital and make 1 DVD per night.


Re-encoding MPEG won't get u any quality increase

[midwestarts]

I'm using a P4 with 500MB of ram and it takes me 8 hours of encoding per one hour of video if I use the highest settings. As far as I can tell event the really fast processors don't make that much of a difference.

[vhelp]

evening.

well, nutt318 did post his specs, "computer details" it's an Intel 1.7GHz

Ok, I'm confused here:
>> I do do that but I have about 40 movies on my hardrive.......unless thats the
>> only way. Because I want to convert all of my svcd videos to dvdr.
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and then..
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>> Well I guess i shouldnt complane because Im converting avi to dvd quality around
>> 4000 kbits i think. So Im doing pretty good. Oh how do I crank up the power of the
Ok, so when you say AVI, do you mean, divX or captured source ??
I'm confused at both your post above.

Some Questions:
* Are you re-encoding, YOUR svcd's; FROM divX avi's; or, svcd to dvd2avi *.d2v avi's ??
* what are the specs of those 40 avi movies, or 40 svcd movies ?? ie resolution, bitrate...

>> Just asking a question, dint know I had to post each question in a different area.
Yes, it can be a task, ta have to post in different areas, but then what's the point
of have AREAS for specific topics - Organization! etc.

-vhelp

[solarfox]

Nutt318 -- My 1GHz Duron has been taking about 6 hours to encode a 90-minute movie to DVD in ULead Media Studio Pro. Since ULead's MPEG.Now codec is faster than TMPGenc, but my system was hobbled by slower PC133 memory instead of DDR (I recently upgraded it to DDR, but haven't done an encode with it yet), your 3-hour figure for a movie in TMPGenc on your 1.7GHz P4 doesn't seem unreasonable...

From a hardware standpoint, you could get a speed boost if you upgrade the CPU (of course), install another 256Mb of RAM (not a dramatic boost, but it helps), and trade up to ATA133 hard drives if they're not already.

From a software standpoint, you might try experimenting with the settings in TMPGenc. Pick a short video clip (say, about 5 minutes long) and encode it with a variety of different settings to see how they affect both the rendering time and the quality of the final product. (You may not, for example, always need to be encoding with the motion-search accuracy set to "high", depending on the nature of the source video.)

Also, one thing that I find helps a lot -- make sure your source and destination directories are on different drives. (That's different physical drives, not different partitions on the same drive.)

[nutt318]

Vhelp,

I have my 40 movies in that are divx, with a .avi extension. I am want to convert that to be able to play on my dvd-r. I have found out how to do this now,

Thanks,

[Dave Knowles]

Have any of you tried Main Concept version 1.3. I am getting great results and on my dual Pentium 650 almost real time encoding.