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    I'm using TMPGenc to encode one hour fo DV video using the standard NTSC DVD template with the following settings: 2 pass VBR, motion: "very slow" (3000 bitrate).

    It's taking 33 hours on my 1.4Ghz Athlon XP, 7200RPM ATA133 HD, 768Megs of Memory. Both my HD are 7200RPM ATA133. TMPGenc is running on one of them and the source and destination files (and the TMPGenc "temp" folder) is using the 2nd HD.

    Should this encode be taking 33 hours???? I know 2pass VBR "very slow" takes a while but I used to encode SVCD with these same settings and it only took about ~7 hours. SVCD is very similar to DVD (mpeg-2) so I expect it should take about a similar amount of time????

    The source HD is brand new so maybe I need to check that it is operating in DMA mode. But I'm pretty sure it is, ???

    Does anyone now how much time I would save if I used the CBR setting instead of 2pass VBR for DVD encode??? I favored 2pass VBR for VCD/SVCD in the past with the "very slow" setting but I don't know for how long I can put up with 33hours....

    Should I consider just encoding with "Ulead MovieFactory 2"? Does that give decent results for encoding home DV video??? Is MovieFacotry a pretty fast encoder?
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    Why not try Cinema Craft Encoder. Itīs real fast and quality is equal or even better than tmpgenc
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    Originally Posted by Rambo78
    Why not try Cinema Craft Encoder. Itīs real fast and quality is equal or even better than tmpgenc
    CCE didn't really seem easy to me. So much so that I never really got started with it. But I guess it's time to revisit it.

    My 2nd hour of DV source is taking 25 hours with the above settings. Should this take so much longer than SVCD?? Can anyone answer this???
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  4. The big differance I have seen in encoding for DVD is that the width is much greater than svcd, 720x480 compared to 480x480.
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    Originally Posted by crowdx38
    The big differance I have seen in encoding for DVD is that the width is much greater than svcd, 720x480 compared to 480x480.
    Patrick
    I'm interested in someone putting this in terms of time. Could DVD MPEG-2 take 3 times as long as SVCD MPEG-2 to encode????? Has anyone heard of encoding to DVD format here???
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    May be just me, but it seems something is wrong? I can frameserve an entire film via .d2v and .wav and encode in under 7 hours on any of my machines using NTSC DVD VBR with an output of mpg2 @ around 4gb.

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    Cooly-O:

    It looks like you may have motion search precision, in TMPGenc, set to "Highest Quality (very slow)" if this is the case try changing it to "High Quality (slow)" I strongy suspect this will decrease your encode time at least three hours and probably much more, with little to no apparent change in image quality.

    I don't encode DVD's, but I do use DVD2SVCD and TMPGenc to copy to SVCD. I find if an encode takes about 30 hours at "Highest Quality (very slow)" it takes about 20 hours at "High Quality (slow)" on my system and it is very hard to distinguish a quality difference.
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    I'm following the CCE guide (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/cce_guide.htm) but I'm stuck on the part where it says:

    If you click on Setting in the Encode setting, then right click on the loaded source file you can define the encode range and specify an external audio file.
    I get an error: Couldn't find appropriate video codec for 'dvsd' when I right click on the file and select "Edit".

    I installed “Canopus DV Codec” from the vcdhelp Tools section. But does this just help for Virtualdub issues??

    And I don't seem to be having much luck adding the DV avi to DVD2AVI as described in the guide:

    The external audio source can be useful when you've used DVD2AVI to demux the audio. Note that the audio source has to be 44.1KHz to be VCD or SVCD compliant. CCE does not downsample the audio, that has to be done before.
    How do you use DVD2AVI for an DV source?
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