Slowness of conversion DivX>VCD

[james smith555]

Hi,

My brother has just got a DVD player, and I was trying to convert one of the DivX's I have on my P.C to a VCD so we could watch it on the DVD player.

Everythings fine except the ridiculously long conversion time ! It has been going for 4+ hours now! Is there no faster way of doing this, or is this just how it is !

I used Virtualdub to convert audio to a .wav, then TMPGEnc to create the mpg (it's still running now). I have a fairly fast PC with 512meg RAM, PIII 1000Mhz etc.

James

[puertorican138]

4 hours and more isn't bad at all. There are people on this board who's computer's takes 30 and 40 hours to encode one movie.

[ABAB]

Things to consider........

Procesing power of your computer
Length of film your'e encoding
Number of filters you have applied

I have an 1800 XP with 256 DDR ram and to convert a 1hr 45 min film to SVCD usually takes about 6 hrs, so maybe you are worrying about nothing.
Set it going before you go to bed is probably favourite.

Have fun.

[ABAB]

Doh!
You beat me to it by 1 min peurtorican138

[puertorican138]

8) :P