encoding times

[jordan456789]

My computer is a 400 MHz with 128 ram. I tried to encode a movie with TMPGEnc and it takes around 15 hours to encode a 2 hour movie. Why would it take so long and how can i get it to be faster.

[stephen]

That sounds about right, depending on what settings you use for encoding.
I have a 1.4GHz machine with 512MB DDR RAM and it took me 3 hours to encode a 1-hour video with moderate quality.
Just for fun, I bumped all of the settings (or at least the ones I understand what to do with) up to maximum, and it said it would take about 116 hours to encode. It started at 125 hours and then dropped down to 116. Encoding just takes a lot of CPU power, and thus, a lot of time.

[jordan456789]

Are there any tricks to speed this up.

[stephen]

Sorry. Forgot to respond to that part. I don't think there are any "tricks", per se. I think the only thing you can do to make it go faster is to encode with lower quality. I know that's a really broad term. TMPGEnc gives you a whole lot of control over encoding options.
There's a guide for TMPGEnc at this site at
https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencdvd.htm
That might be helpful.

There's also a link at the bottom of that page entitled:
"Configuring TMPGEnc for high-quality, DVD-compliant MPEG-2".

Try perusing that one. You probably won't want to use the settings he uses, but it'll give you an idea of the range of options you can set and how they will affect quality/encoding time.

I have to admit I'm fairly new at all this. Hope you can find a good solution.
Maybe someone who's been at it a while will reply to this and offer a little more help.

Good luck.

[Cecilio]

well ok hold on everyone, as you can see im a super pro, what are you encoding from DVD-to-(vcd)_xvcd_(svcd)_xsvcd_(cvd)_DVD
or AVI-to-(vcd)_xvcd_(svcd)_xsvcd_(cvd)_DVD

[jordan456789]

I am going from AVI to xvcd.

[Cecilio]

well ok jordan, your compuer seems pretty old, i mean 400 mhz is it pc or mac, well ok doesnt matter, look just do this



and well the bitrate can be anything, just try to keep it under 1800 for compatability issues.

[Cecilio]

oh, but your going from AVI to xvcd, right?
well then just extract the audio using gold wav and save it as a wav like this hold on let me take some pics


and its done opening up the file, put file save as and save it as a wav.
now that you have your wav, do this wait whats your file xvid or divx or 3ivx or what?

[Cecilio]

if its xvid open up the avi file, using FourCC changer.

like this

thats how it looks when you open the file up.

then do this



and apply.

now open up TMPGEnc and where it says video, put the avi, and then where it says audio, put the wav and it should not take longer than 5 hours, it should take like 3 hours, if im making a movie with vcd reselution, it encodes it almost at real time

[poopyhead]

My computer is a 400 MHz with 128 ram. I tried to encode a movie with TMPGEnc and it takes around 15 hours to encode a 2 hour movie. Why would it take so long and how can i get it to be faster.

CPU, CPU, CPU.......CPU, CPU, CPU

the relationship between encode time and CPU processor power is almost linear.... if you use the exact same encoder settings, doubling your CPU processing power (not necessarily just the clock speed, as there's L1 and L2 cache, FSB, and with earlier Athlons vs. Pentiums, same increase in clockspeed for Athlon outperformed same increase in Pentiums) will nearly half your encode time.

there are ways to adjust encode settings to speed the time up...however, you will usually sacrifice video quality.