16.5 hrs to encode 1.5hrs of movie??

[bigb901]

I have a 1.2gig athlon with 256 meg of ram running windows 98se.

I am using TMPGEnc to encode and the counter is at 16hrs 42min to get to 1.5hr mark of the souce file.

I am using 2 pass vbr and motion search set to highest quality.

Is this normal?


thanks

bigb

[BJ_M]

seems a little slow .. any filters or setting in adv setings on ?

[bigb901]

Advanced settings are:

DC component precision 10 bit.
Use floating point DCT
No motion search for picture part by half pixel
Field Order bottom first

GOP settings
I picture =1
P picture=4
B picture=3
output interval of sequence header=1
Max frames in a gop=0
Detect scene change


thanks for any help

bigb

[BJ_M]

max frames in a gop 0 means there is unlimted number of frames in a gop .. set this to 15 instead

[bigb901]

Thanks for the help...

Now if I just new what a GOP was I would be set!


bigb

[ya_jai]

I have a 1.2gig athlon with 256 meg of ram running windows 98se.

I am using TMPGEnc to encode and the counter is at 16hrs 42min to get to 1.5hr mark of the souce file.

I am using 2 pass vbr and motion search set to highest quality.

Is this normal?


thanks

bigb

Becuz you use 2 pass vbr which will take as twice much time compare to CBR, CQ, then I would say 16 hrs is pretty normal. Another factor would be motion search precision, if you set to highest (very slow) it will take lot longer than higher or normal.

[bigb901]

Actually I did read the guide for dvd2svcd, which is the only reason that I was able to do my first svcd.

I knew that vbr would take longer and that motion search would add to the time too. But I kept reading post after post of people ripping and encoding over-night and just having to burn it in the morning.

It seemed to me that either people were sleeping 18hrs a day , or my encodes where taking too long.


thanks

bigb

[ya_jai]

Those ppl might have bigger system than you do. Like mine I can encode 2 hrs movie with 2 pass vbr within 8-10 hrs becuz my system is 1.7 Gb.

Encoding time is mainly depend on your CPU, if you have a bigger CPU then you expect less time.

BTW I set Motion Search only to Higher quality (slow). I don't know if you can see much different between higher and highest and if it's worth to set to highest.