I can hardly wait for Wednesday night...

[rochkind]

... when my SVCD conversion with TMPGenc is due to complete. Only 57 hours to go!

But, TMPGenc seems to be very happy running in the background. Remains active for checking progress, setting options, etc. Runs, courteously, in otherwise-idle time. In fact, my computer is very responsive with TMPGenc running. And, when you think about it, 3 days is entirely reasonable. My daughter glazed a coffee mug at a local pottery studio, and it spent an entire WEEK in the kiln! So, who's complaining? Which would you rather have, a coffee mug or a beautiful SVCD?

[jemmopz]

Neither!!

Seriously, what system are you running atm?
Not that anyone could help with your encoding time, just what system are you running atm? Just curious that all.

Cheers

[websurfer907]

What's a kiln?

[ktnwin]

and how long is the video that you are trying to encode ?
and what are all the filters that you turned ON ?

I just did my longest one (1hr 20min of AVI to SVCD) and it started on Saturday noon and finished the next day at 7pm (using PII-266Mhz with 64MB RAM).

So, I ordered a Athlon 1.2 Ghz + 256MB RAM to help speeding up this process. Can wait for it to come in.

[next]

Simple answer - capture real time with a AIW Pro 128 and drop it into Nero and burn. The post capture process takes about 15 minutes.

Unless you're a cat and have an extra 8 lives left.

[ktnwin]

Oh, a kiln is a furnace (kind of huge, long oven).
You don't want to be in there even for a few seconds.

[ktnwin]

Can you give us a sample fo SVCD clip captured by AIW Pro 128 ?
Quality is a big concern for people who do SVCD. (otherwise, we would have stick with VCD instead).

[websurfer907]

Wouldn't that melt the mug?

And BTW, I'd like to see a sample SVCD clip too, I'm thinking of getting an ATI AIW.

[next]

Is compliancy an issue for you? Because if it is not the quality of an XVCD capture and an SVCD capture are difficult to tell apart.

[next]

Most of my captures are XVCD with advanced bit rates of around 3.0 megs. Frame rates can be 352x240, 480x480, and just about anything else you can think of. Either CBR or VBR. I prefer Mpeg1 captures beacuse they seem to play better in my DVD players and I don't need the extra audio streams afforded in Mpeg2. But Meg2 SVCD captures work fine too.

Simply capture and burn. It's in my DVD player 15 mins after I capture. There are some tricks for a Nero burn but they are extermely simple.

[Steve_h]

Capturing and burning without re-encoding as next says works excellent with the AIW, but you can't delete TMPEGENC off the computer just yet. I haven't figured out how to edit home videos (add effects, music, etc.) and output them to VCD or SVCD without re-encoding.

[rochkind]

For the curious, I was testing a 40 min. video with the "highest quality (very slow)" setting. Truth in advertising, to be sure! I don't expect to ever actually use this setting for real... I just want to see what happens.

My system is top-of-the-line... for 1998. 350 MHz, 256MB, Windows 2000. Fine for what I use it for. I wouldn't replace it only for burning [S]VCDs... maybe for video editing, though.

(Update: I cut it off after 17 hrs. with 22% on the progress meter, but still showing 0:00 for a source position, and 0 bytes written to the file. Will someday have to track down what the problem was. Using "high quality" instead is working fine, so my experiment is now with that setting.)

Rockhind I have a question, what bitrate setting were you using ? Cause if you were using 2pass VBR then it won't show any bits written or show any progress until its at 51%.
If you already knew this then please forgive me for I am only trying to help.

[DVantrease]

From what I've read, there is virtually no visable difference between using 'high quality' and 'highest quality'... it just runs longer. I've never used 'highest' myself, but I've been VERY happy with high quality.

[vitualis]

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For the clay in the pottery to harden to ceramic, and also for the glaze to go from the dull paint-like coating to a nice shiny glassy substance, the pottery has to be fired in a "kiln" -- often for several days. What a "kiln" is has already be described by ktnwin.

Clay doesn't melt (at least not in the temperatures of a kiln.

Regards.

[El_Mero_Zooter]

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-->> ¿What's a kiln?
so dat's what it is...kewl..
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shiet, i feel like throwing my system in da kiln.
Well, at least my spare system (i.e. kidz pc). 333a celeron 192mg, 98se,
Just for the hell O it, i cued up a vob-vcd ripp of a 2:46:00 min movie, flask->bbmpg->vcd-ready mpg1 (1150 vid, 112 audio), output was 1.03 gig , synched, chopped to 2, ready to burn,and it only took 47 Freakin,,,HOURSS...

Gott an ati card ready to go into it, so please, if anyone has a post, thread, newsletter, link, url, guide, tutorial on how to capture real time n tweak n burn , please by all means, advice where,,,

rochkind,
ill take da svcd,,,

Zooter
fave line from 'chasin' amy'
'whats' a nubian'

[Varek]

rochind: if you were using 2-pass VBR then there was no problem. The first pass of 2-pass analyses the video for compression charactistics vs the desired bitrates you gave it. With the entire video analysed, it can make decisions ahead of time about how best to compress the piece for the highest quality at the bitrates you specified. It doesn't actually begin compressing the video until this analysis is done, which is the second pass, half-way through the process. You won't see any frames counted until after 50%.

This is my understanding of it anyway. If anyone has any corrections please feel free...

BTW, just for comparison: I'm puting 48min episodes of a show I can't get here on to SVCD. 2-pass vbr with noise reduction is about 15hrs per episode on a PIII800 with 512Mb RAM. Video conversion is probably one of the most processor intensive activities you could ask your computer to do...

Have fun!