Convert times Tmpgenc n Procoder. how long does it take u?

[nolimit966]

hello, i wanted to start a thread for everyone to give there PC hardware details and convertion times using these 2 programs, (or just 1 or the other) - To give use basic knowlege of how fast/slow convertion takes with what hardware.

The Symptoms are:
Converting a Standard XVID/DIVX Movie file around 125 - 135 minutes long on average.
Converting it TO an average 3500 KBS to 4000 KBS MPG2 Standard file with either one of the programs. dont forget to state the speed/quality mode type (EG: high speed -Procoder)

If you dont know the full specs of your PC please just enter the basic specs.
Thanks a lot!!!!

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HERES My setup PC:

CPU: AMD 2800XP running at 2.9GHZ
RAM: 256MB DDR333 PC2700
HDD Size and speed: 80GB HDD, 7200 rpm IDE
FILE: DIVX/XVID
LENGTH: 132 Minutes
BITRATE: 4000KBS
SOFTWARE: Canopus Procoder 2!!!!
OUTPUT TO: DVD MPEG2
SPEED/QUALITY: High speed

APPROX TIME TAKEN: 3 Hours 40 minutes

I Think my PC would be a lot faster converting if i had more RAM.

Please state yours, this information could be extremly useful to other forum members.

[Kool_Aid]

It would be faster if you had a second hard drive.
Read the source from one drive, and output the encoded file to another.

[pchan]

I use Premiere 6.5 Frameserve to TMPGenc using p4 3.0c with 1gig RAM. 10min 768 x 576 video clip encode to PAL DVD takes 15min. If I extrapolate, a 130min would take 3 hrs 15 min.

[nolimit966]

koolaid, Thanks for the info , i didnt know that! im getting a new HDD next week too!

[Aznmask]

It would be faster if you had a second hard drive.
Read the source from one drive, and output the encoded file to another.

is this true? czu i have 2 harddrive and my file is in the C: drive and i alway convert the output in the C: drive. So i should make it into D: drive? that would be faster?

[proxyx99]

It would be faster if you had a second hard drive.
Read the source from one drive, and output the encoded file to another.

I wouldn't bet on this. The difference would be none to minimal. Conversion speed is so low that any new HD will do the read/write cycle with ease. Just look at the numbers:
average DVD ca 4 Gig (for simplicity)
DVD rip time 20 min. due to DVD player slowness as compared to HD
conversion time ca 3.5 hrs !
and you say that 2nd HD woul make it faster?

During conversion your HD is on idle speed, far from what it can do.

Nolimit966, you are right, you have too little RAM, more RAM = less HD read/write cycles.

[tygrus2000]

Something tells me that these would take about the same time, but I would place my bets on Procoder having the better final output. I am always stuck on quality over speed.

[Aznmask]

in Tmpgenc you can set the "Motion Search Precision" to Normal, High Quality(slow) or Highest Quality(very slow)

i alway use Normal czu it converted faster.. but does high quality or highest quality improve the quality?

[ZippyP.]

i alway use Normal czu it converted faster.. but does high quality or highest quality improve the quality?

It's generally regarded that the highest setting doesn't make much difference (and is very slow). Personally, I use Estimate.

I normally use 2-pass VBR to increase the quality. It takes a lot longer, but I have the cache setting set to 4 GB so it's about 1.6x longer compared to CBR. Also, if you use any filtering like noise reduction it can double the time.

Unless you know all the settings then you can't really make a valid comparison.

[Sillyname]

It would be faster if you had a second hard drive.
Read the source from one drive, and output the encoded file to another.

Not to argue but not true. We're talking about writing very little data here. All the speed would be in the processing (compressing) of that data. The hard drive, that can play "uncompressed" DV video without stuttering, should have no trouble writing the video back to it as it becomes available after compressing it. I guarantee you it has plenty of time to tap its fingers, waiting for the processor to finish chewing on the video.

Oops sorry... Seeing somebody already played Brainy Smurf up above.

[BJ_M]

here - i did a test for you to compare speeds


https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1024711#1024711

[nolimit966]

thanks
seems as though
the approx time to convert a xvid or divx 130 minute movie to mpg2 or vob is around 3 - 4 hours