DVD->SVCD on a p233 w/ 64MB - how long?

[lordsnow]

Ok... don't laugh! I was thinking of trying to rip a DVD and make a SVCD (the KVCD flavour) to play on my stand-alone Pioneer DVD-350.

The problem (?) is, I only have a PC with p233 and 64MB. How long can I expect a conversion DVD -> KVCD to take? A ballpark figure is OK. Should I bother trying it, or will it all take too long?

[Hardcoreruss]

Depends on the quality, number of passes etc... but whatever you choose I think you will be looking at a couple of days ?!?

[lordsnow]

*laughs* that's what I figured too, which is why I'm asking - just to make sure.

I read somewhere else here in this forum that a Celeron 1.1GHz takes about 40 hours. Only comparing the MHz would mean it would take me about 170 hours. Add to that architectural improvements, and I estimate 250 - 350 hours. That's 10 to 15 days?! Wow.. holy schmokes!

[Gazorgan]

Well, encoding is roughly based on cpu speed. You Under-ram'd also. I would say from ripping to bin/cue you are looking at about 96 hours for a 2-pass VBR in TMPG. 4 Days solid.

CBR would cut that down to maybe 24-36 hours? Not sure, I never use CBR.

[glassvial]

My Duron 1300 takes about 8-10 hours (roughly, depending on which encoder I use, etc), so you'd be looking at at least 4x that speed I'd imagine, especially considering your lack of ram. And considering TMPGenc is touted as one of the slowest encoders out there...hmm. Well why not give it a shot, TMPGenc usually gives you a time estimate after it starts working, doesn't it? Maybe you can get us the time estimate and report back

[TeeeRex]

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/cpu_charts-26.html

[smearbrick1]

Interesting... 8 hours on a duron 1300?

Hmmm....

Takes me about 4 hours, constant bitrate, with my 1.4ghz p4 with 512 of ram.

[lordsnow]

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/cpu_charts-26.html

) thank you

[ktnwin]

I have done that. 266Mhz, 64MB RAM and here are the encoding time (using TMPGEnc) :
1) for VCD: 1 hour video took 12 hours to encode
2) for SVCD: 1 hour video took almost 24 hours to encode
Still want to do that ???