mainconcept encoding time

[bean24072olc]

ok maybe it is just me but i thought i was reading in the post that maincomcept was suppose to be this resll quick encoder i am trying it for the first time and my estimated time is 11 hours am i missing something here?

[SaSi]

How fast is your CPU? Expect almost real time encoding on a P4/2.2~2.67GHz. Expect proportionately slower performance in slower systems (e.g. a P3/1200 should give you half real time encoding times).

I have tried several combinations of settings (to test compression vs. encoding time) and found out that there is not much you can do to the settings to increase encoding time dramatically (at most 10~25% and that if you set some values to extremes).

What format is the source file (AVI or MPEG) and if AVI what codec did you use for that? Some codecs are very very slow to decode.

Another bottleneck can be caused by encoding with the source and target files on the same hard disk (even on separate partitions). It get's worse if either the source or target disks are fragmented. It get's even worse if both are fragmented.

By the way, have you tried Tmpgenc? If yes, what encoding times does it estimate?

[crazeplaya]

You should be able to get realtime or faster encoding on Athlon XP and above.

[wwaag]

Agree with other replies. I have a P4, 2.53Ghz machine and capture to DV through an ADVC-100. Inputting the DV file directly into Mainconcept, the ratio given is usually .8 realtime, ie 1.25 times faster than realtime.

I've also tried various encoding options and found that it does not dramatically increase encode time.

Just finished an encode frameserving from Vdub. While doing other stuff at the same time, surfing, ripping a few DVDs etc, the ratio given was 1.2.