TMPGEnc Encoding Time

[Will Hay]

I've encoded six episodes of a UK PAL TV series, they average 2600 bitrate and have been taking 130mins to encode, despite being only 28 mins long.
Is it fair to assume dvd will take longer to encode than vcd as I was doing these at vcd with a Duron 800 and they were taking less time than this, and I've just upgraded to an Athlon 2000XP+
Thanks,
Will
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[bugster]

The more data an encoder has to generate, the longer it takes to generate it. Common sense really.

So if you encode to DVD compliant mpeg-2 using 1150 CBR it should take about the same length of time as VCD. But being more realistic, if you encode at 5000+ kbps then it will take a lot lonegr. Using VBR (1 pass) ups the time a little and using 2-pass (or more with some encoders) extends the time even further, by approximatley a factor of the number of passes.

[Will Hay]

The more data an encoder has to generate, the longer it takes to generate it. Common sense really.

Yes, I understand that, but I upgraded to an Athlon XP2000+ and would have imagined the encoding time to have dropped.
I won't be making anymore vcd's so can't compare.
I'd be interested to learn from anyone with a similar system creating dvd-r's as to their encoding times with TMPGEnc.
Thanks,
Will

[jdvpm]

mine Athlon 1.2Ghz (200Mhz) 512MB Sdram, make SVCD (2000-2500kbs), from Divx ands DV, a about 4h45 for 1h movie...

And i working normaly with the PC...

[The Maynard]

Mine system has an AMD XP2000 and it takes me about 2.5 hours to encode a 1.5 hour movie to DIVX at 2500 bits per second. So a DVD shouldn't be too much longer. If there's a difference in the amount of time it takes it's probably because of the different codec used for DVD (MOEG2 as apposed to DIVX) but it shouldn't be that much different.

[Will Hay]

I think I'll do some testing, vcd etc and report back.
I don't think it should be taking four times the running length.
Thanks for the posts,
Will

[Mr. Madness]

I don't think it should be taking four times the running length.

4x running time seems about right for an Athlon XP 2000 if you are using 2 pass VBR for DVD using TMPGEnc. I did a 2 hour and 15 minute m2v trans-code using DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc (2 pass VBR 4035kbps) the other night and it took over 11 hours with my Athlon XP 1800. The same system will do VCD about 1x and 2 pass SVCD (1800 to 2000kbps) about 4X running time. If you're not using a 2 pass VBR, I would say 4X is excessive.

[dc91gt]

My P4 2.4Ghz, 1 GHz DDR 2700 takes about:

4hrs 30 min in Tmpgenc 2.59 to do a 140 min movie @ 4000/avg VBR-2pass.

CCE the same movie takes 2 hours for a 3-pass VBR same bit rate.

So your times don't look too out of wack. Make sure you've got SSE turned on in the enviroment options.

-d

[Will Hay]

Thanks folks (I am using 2 pass vVBR BTW),
Will