Slow DVD to DivX. What am I doing wrong?

[K(c)offee]

Im trying to encode a DVD to a DivX. Im using DVDx version 2 I think. And DivX 5.1 And the encoding time seems a bit long. 10 hours at the moment at ~9 fps. Here are my settings.



I have 640MBs of Ram and Athlon XP 2000+

I have tired copying the DVD to the Harddrive first that helps the speed some but not much. Maybe it just takes this long. But from what I read here people said it took around 2 hours. Give or take. Anyway thanks.

[tito13kfm]

I'm not too familiar with DVDx but that option of Resize (bicubic) looks suspiscious to me. Why would you need to resize a 720x480 source to 720x480?? also the Time to encode you are showing says 1 hour 57 minutes.. so maybe you don't have DMA enabled, or you need to defrag. I don't know.. just throwing out ideas here.

[Suntan]

I have never used DVDx (I use Vdub) to do any DivX Encodes. Just be aware that any time you see posts of average encode times for Divx that the new DivX5.1 on its slowest setting takes much longer than any of the previous versions (5.0.5 and earlier) the quality is better though. As a reference (personal experience at least) DivX 5.1 on standard setting is slightly slower than DivX 5.0.5 at slowest setting.

Don't be too supprised by long encode times, I am in the middle of a 3 day 2 pass encode of Two Towers (with a 1900XP 512 Meg memory.) Go take a look at the forums on http://www.divx.com they have talked about the huge speed hit that 5.1 incures at length.

[Gazorgan]

2-pass full res DivX takes similiar time to a 2-pass SVCD encode. The time is right.

Why didn't you de-interlace? Computer monitors hate interlacing. Why bicubic it to itself? This just adds to encoding time while accomplishing nothing.

And yes, 5.1 is slooooooooooooooooooower than 5.0.5 but does look better when your done (a lot better on my test clips).

[K2]

I don't see the setting for Divx encoder but looks OK and the time is about right from my experience also.

As was said before, as new vesions of Divx come out they get slower with better quality. The greater compression you ask it to do the longer also, like DVD to CD size. Let's face it, if your output was only 352x240 it would be fast than the 720x480 you have.

[jdizzy40]

Intervideo's DVD Copy will convert a movie to DVix in 2hours. I've done this on and AMD XP2000. That amount of times seems way too long.

[jolo]

jdizzy40,

When you backup a movie with Intervideos DVD Copy, do you use the "Home Theater" selection before creating a Divx file ?

I have had problems with the Home Theater selection, but none with the portable PC selection.

Jon

[jdizzy40]

Intervideo's DVD Copy is 4 clicks, source file, destination, click DVix and then start. I convert all of my adult films this way and view thru a program called Snapstream 3.3. It's like a TIVO set-up but tons better.

[jolo]

I think that is why your Divx works so well for you. I just got a refund because of the "Home Theater" option for better quality.

Don't you have a icon that looks like a "wrench" that you can select so that you can pit in some additional parameters ?

Jon

[jdizzy40]

yes but the only options are DiskSplit size, format NTSC/Pal and destination. Mine was an early version and I haven't checked for any updates.

[jolo]

You probably code in Divx in what they call the "portable" choice.

Jon

[leavemealone2k]

i use one of the encoding guides i found on this site over a year ago as a basis for my encoding. if you just want to create divx avi's then try using smartripper to rip the dvd vobs to your harddrive and then use vidomi with the correct divx plugins to encode the vobs in to an avi. i have found it better to do it this way as you have more control over the process as it is not one piece of software doing everything. approximate encoding time for this process is about 4 hours (not including the time for ripping the vobs which should be approximatly 30 min if you have a resonably fast dvd-rom)

[jolo]

leavemealone2k,

Thanks for the tips !! Good information.

I have been using Dr. Divx 1.03 which has been producting excellent results for me. It usually takes about four hours, longer than I want it to be, to do a 2-pass encode to Divx, but I am very pleased with thew reuslts.

Jon

[leavemealone2k]

jolo

doing it the way i do it also creates a 3 pass divx rather than a 2 pass

[jolo]

leavemealone2k,

THREE PASS,,,, I think I am going to PASS OUT.

Seriously, you probably get some better quality this a three pass, but two pass with Dr. Divx is plenty for me and I am extremely happy with the quality. So much so that I am re-backing up videos that I have in other forms. Because of the quality per disk space, I want everything Divx for backups.

To store off backups of 4-5 full length movies is a wonderful thing. I also find Divx excellent for backups as well because of the encoders that can easiy change to VCD, SVCD, DVD formats, etc if necessary. Main Concept (1 hour), TMPGenc, etc.

I have to admit, I love my lite-on 2001. Just opens up more possibilities and less media.

I really think that it is getting around Divx time. People purchase X-Boxs just for Divx purposes, etc. I think they will coming out with support on a bunch of media very soon. The ability to slap them on a MP3 player or flash memory ain't bad either.

Jon