Can someone help a newbie understand something...

I can convert DVD's to SVCD using DVD2SVCD and this takes about 10 hours. My question is - is there some hardware you can buy that speeds this up, i.e. are there cards designed to do this quicker?

I have a hardware Creative Labs DXR-3 DVD decoder in my machine and wondered whether this should somehow be able to handle the process instead? My understanding is that both DVD and SVCD are MPEG2?

TIA


Paul