should it be taking 20-30 hour to encode?!?!

[jmebonner]

does anone have any idea what I can do to make eazyvcd (using TMPGEnc) encode faster? It's taking anywhere between 20 and 30 hours for 1 dvd. Is this normal, I'm running a 900mhz athlon w/ 256 ram. Obviously a faster processor would probably help, but not having a job kinda makes that upgrade impossible, any other ideas? I have nothing running in the background except the necessities. no AV, or firewall, or anything. Please help, this is killing me!

[BJ_M]

not unussual

[ashitaka1983]

jme..shutdown all programs let only tmpenc run also set task priority to HIGHEST see if that helps..

[banjazzer]

It depends what encoding mode you are using. VCD should be much quicker, but I am not at all surprised if you are using 2-pass VBR to make a SVCD.

Your options are:

1. Get a faster CPU.
2. Use CQ mode.
3. Use CBR (and more discs).
4. Use CCE.

[Vejita-sama]

Actually with a 900Mhz cpu that does sounds a little long. But you didn't tell us what settings you're using. For comparison I had a AMD K6-2 500 and it took me 18hrs to encode a 90min DivX file to an xVCD in TMPGenc.

Then I got a Tbird 1.2Ghz and CCE. I got about 1.1x the source runtime per pass with that.

Now I have a 2200XP+ (1.8ghz) and in CCE get about 0.75x the source runtime per pass.

[Craig Tucker]

You say you are encoding for DVD so it does not seem an unreasonable amount of time considering your CPU.

I encode to DVD with a bitrate to give a file of around 4GB, the actual bitrate obviously depends on the length of the film. I use 2 pass VBR, with motion search precision set to high. This will take approx 12 hours on my system. VCD on the other hand is done in quicker than real time.

[Hex]

I couldn't tell exactly, but it seems you have 2 HD's? I haven't seen a 50 GB HD before. Make sure the 2 HD's are on separate IDE's and encode from one to the other. This should increase speed by ~6%.

[Dodzzz]

If you add "Noise reduction filter" then it's normal, TMPGEnc's noise reduction filter is super slow, but the result kicks ass!

[banjazzer]

You say you are encoding for DVD so it does not seem an unreasonable amount of time considering your CPU.

It actually looks like he is making a VCD from a DVD, in which case it does seem a long time:

"to make eazyvcd (using TMPGEnc) encode faster? It's taking anywhere between 20 and 30 hours for 1 dvd."

Mebbe it should be called slow'neazyvcd?

[Craig Tucker]

You say you are encoding for DVD so it does not seem an unreasonable amount of time considering your CPU.

It actually looks like he is making a VCD from a DVD, in which case it does seem a long time:

"to make eazyvcd (using TMPGEnc) encode faster? It's taking anywhere between 20 and 30 hours for 1 dvd."

Mebbe it should be called slow'neazyvcd?

Missed that bit, just saw 20-30 hrs for 1 DVD and assumed he was encoding to DVD compliant mpeg. In that case it is a very long time for encoding to VCD compliant mpeg.

[Anonymoususer]

Im posting it here cuz Im KINDA havin a smiliar problem. Just got a "movie" broke it down to parts evenly and the "movie" has a lot of fight scenes..Cou*Kung-Fu*gh...and Im gonna make an SVCD using TMPGEnc. I've been making SVCD's for a while now and know the settings pretty well...since during High Action scenes Macrobloack tend to appear, I was reading a post about Motion Search Precision and decided to do it on Highest and damn it took 15 hours for just 30 Minutes...is it supoosed to be like that..if so are the results worth it...? are their any useful sugesstions about enhacing the movie so their aren't any macroblocks...each part of the movie is 40Minutes approximate. Im gonna encode at around 2300 Bitrate, I really hope that's a good Video Bitrate. I changed the AUdio settings somewhat to squeeze in the more Video. Changed 41KHZ to 48 KHZ, Stereo to Joint Stereo, and 224 Audio Bitrate to 192. If anyone got any good suggestions, tips please tell me because I want to get the most out of TMPGEnc to make the "movie" look good...

[Roland187]

Try dvdx 2.0 encoding is mucccccch faster than that. In svcd mode, it took me no more than 4.5 hours for a normal 1.5 hour movie. BUt i have a 2.4ghz P4 but even still it shouldn't take more than 7-9hrs. on your 900mhz AMD. Less if your doing vcd.

[Anonymoususer]

I have a 450MHZ Processor...yeaa I guess it should take that long....

[herbapou]

I was using this encoder back when I was making SVCD. If I remember correctly, the time sinks with this software was the filters. So try not using any filters and see if that helps. Also, try 1 pass VBR instead of 2 pass and check if quality is still good.

Here is the results I have for DVD to DVD-R with CCE 2.5 (software DVD2DVDR)

90 mins: 1 pass VBR, CCE 2.5: 3 hours
90 mins: 2 pass VBR, CCE 2.5: 4 hours

120 mins: 1 pass VBR, CCE 2.5: 4.5 hours
120 mins: 2 pass VBR, CCE 2.5: 6 hours

I have a 1500mhz PentiumIV with 512 megs of memory.