TMPGEnc Speed is Slowwwwww!!

[HelpMeOut]

Is there any reason why it takes 4 hours to encode 30 seconds of video? I have a pentium III and 192MB RAM. This is a 3 minute ASF file I am trying to encode to MPG for VCD burning. It says it will 18 hours to encode each file, is this normal?

[rwithey]

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On 2001-09-16 00:42:42, HelpMeOut wrote:
Is there any reason why it takes 4 hours to encode 30 seconds of video? I have a pentium III and 192MB RAM. This is a 3 minute ASF file I am trying to encode to MPG for VCD burning. It says it will 18 hours to encode each file, is this normal?
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I Have a Duron800 and 256MB RAM and a full length movie takes about 3hours to complete. A thirty second clip would take about one minute and thirty seconds for VCD use. My source file was from a DVD rip though, so was VOB files compiled with DVDAVI. Don't think ASF files would take any longer though, I have encoded AVI files from video captures with the same times.

[Greg12]

asf is heavley encoded.

tmpg has to decode it, then encode it.

i've noticed avi's made in ati vcr 2 take longer to encode than uncompressed rgb.

[XTC_HUN]

Hello!

Plz help. I got Thunderbird 750, 384mb RAM, and my comp encode a 2 hour movie @ 20 hour. Whats the problem? Is this normal? I rip the DVD, and make a project file (DVD2AVI).

I use TmpgEnc. Why is so slow for me??

Sorry for my bad english.

XTC_HUN

[BIGTHREE2001]

THE PROBLEM IS TMPEG ITS A GOOD PROG
BUT IF YOU HAVE NOT GOT A REALLY FAST PC IT S SHIT

BEST USE FLASK WITH THE LSX PLUG IN OR SOMETHING
OR EVEN TRY DVDX AND RIP STRAIGHT FROM DVD

[speedy]

Time needed to render is relative to many factors:

1. your CPU speed
2. avaliable system resources
3. how many, what kind of filters, etc.
4. if or not you hard drive is fragemented
5. which application you use

Just for some very rough ballpark idea I get a factor of between 6 to 1 and 9 to 1 meaning a one minute source AVI file with typical filtering options rendered to SVC at typical bitrates takes on average between 3 to 9 minutes for every minute of video to be processed on my rather typical AMD 1200Mhz. Times are less if you just encode from AVI to MPEG-1 as-is meaning no advanced filtering options. I've gotten away with less than 2 to 1 if I'm happy with the source file and not fussing with filters trying to "improve" things.

My advice is if you know your system is stable, don't overheat or lock-up simply start to render longer videos just before going to bed and in the morning you'll have your file. Yes, it does take that long assuming we're talking about 40 minute or longer projects and you do try to apply filters.

[DaMovieMastarz]

I can send you a better encoder, e-mail me at Damoviemastarz@yahoo.com or AIM me at Woodya2004
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