And magically TMPGEnc starts working 2x faster...

[Chopper Face]

... so for a few weeks now it takes me on 5 hours to encode a 24 minute VCD with TMPGEnc. (working with a 466mhz) Yesterday I try doing one and it says it'll take me 2 hours 30 minutes. I stop it, check around with the options and see that it's set to a 1:1 source which I guess it picked up when I converted an SVCD yesterday. I fix that since it would give me black lines and then make my VCD. Still it does it in 2 hours and 30 minutes. So what's going on? I seem to be using all the same settings like HQ motion search precision. I want to be happy about this but I can't help but feel that the quality of my VCD could be affected by all this.

[Truman]

Yes, it seems to be magig. Otherwise you must have changed anything. It is still encoding? Just let it run and see. Hope that such magig moment come to me too

[Chopper Face]

Upon further inspection it appears I was only serving a 3rd of the frames which is quite noticeable during high motion scenes. Oh well... back to the slow 5 hour+ encode.

Anyone know if I can form TMPGEnc to be more gready with resources? I can't help but notice that it doesn't suck up CPU time like virtualdub.