how long time to svcd? please help newbie :)

[kimpan]

Hi!!
I have just bought a new computer, a p4 1.7 ghz with 40gb hd, 512mb rd ram.
I am planing on creating svcds. How long will it take to get the svcd from the dvd movie? how long will the encoding time to mpg2 take?
/Kim

[thxkid]

from start to finish on a 90min. movie and if everyhting you use works without a problem, say give yourself about 4-6 hours.
Thats why I went with a MPEG2 SVCD hardware encoder, takes me 90min. to record movie, 4-5min. to demux MPEG2 into a SVCD, burn onto 2 99min. CD-R's(another 28-30 minutes with 8x burner) finished. So I have a movie done in about 2.5 hours.
But beware, MPEG2 Hardware encoders range from $199 to $299 in price. Well worth it to me, I hate wasting time.

[Vejita-sama]

It depends on what filters you're running and the encoder you use. I have a Tbird 1.2Ghz and using CCE I get takes me 1~1.25x the runtime to encode an MPEG2 stream. With TMPGenc it takes my 2.5~3x the runtime.

If you're a 100% newbie you might want to look at DVD2SVCD (www.doom9.org under 'the guides') which is a frontend that will take care of pretty much everything for you. I choose 'don't create image' and then use TSCV to add chapters/menus, and burn with nero.

To run DVD2SVCD you should get the latest software bundle (http://dvd2svcd.doom9.net), CCE 2.5sp (the demo can be found at the doom9.org guide for the program). This is the CCE demo, so there'll be a watermark/logo in the bottom right of the screen. Although I've heard a rumor that there's a crack to get rid of this