Why does splitting take SOOOO long?

[eli2k]

I used the TMPGenc thing with the MPEG Tools and the splitting takes forever. It doesn't take long with the first section, but the last sections take for ever for the thing to seek and then output it. Why does it take so long? I need one last part of the movie a the very end and I need my computer for usage, so I don't know how long it will take.

[HillJack]

It doesn't take THAT long; it takes as long as it takes. Unless your hard drive is old and slow, just do it and deal with it... 10 minutes at the most.

Would you rather TMPGEnc whips through in 10 seconds, and your resulting file is severely desynched?

[VideoGuy]

I second that. Playing with IFilm Edit is wishy washy at best, TMPGEnc seams to do a good job with minimal time. For crying out loud, its only 1.2gigs worth of video too! HA HA!

[Horrorking]

I just tried splitting my latest 1.8GB file into three, and it is reasonably quick.

Splitting into 600MB or so segments takes about 5 minutes per split using TMPGenc, and since I can use the PC at the same time, it's no big deal.

My system is just a Celeron 500, 256MB ram, 7200RPM Quantum Fireball 40GB drive, and Windows ME

David
http://www.horrorking.com

[clumzy]

What version of TMPGenc do you use? Because (as I posted in another thread) when I try to split I get extra video (around 10 sec) at the end without sound. When I try to split the next segment the audio is really out of synch.

[eli2k]

Hmmm.. My system is P3 800 but a slow 5400 HD. Maybe the hard drive is slowing things down because it keeps flashing red in the LED thing.

[Graham Meredith]

I can vouch for the slowness of the 5400rpm drive. I have 2 drives, a 7200rpm Seagate barricuda, and a 5400rpm Seagate medallist. The Barricuda takes about 2 mins to join two 20 min movies together. The Medallist takes 20 minutes!!!

Graham

[RaleighNC]

Never tried it, but there's a feature in flask/xmpeg >> frameserve-premeire plugin that can split mpegs.

[Ug-Lee]

I use a 1200mhz computer with a 7200rpm 40 gb hard drive, I thougth it was taking to long untill I noted that I were missing a driverutin for my IDEsomething, so I installed it from my motherboard cd and now it is runing like butter in sunshine
Check you installaded motherbord

[Sefy]

I know this is gonna sound silly but, instead of encoding the whole movie and then splitting it which adds more to the total time, why don't you encode in parts instead ? wouldn't that sorta save you that time later ? and not to mention unwanted A/V sync problems which usually occour after splitting.

[eatin sammiches for lunch]

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On 2001-10-20 16:50:16, Sefy wrote:
I know this is gonna sound silly but, instead of encoding the whole movie and then splitting it which adds more to the total time, why don't you encode in parts instead ? wouldn't that sorta save you that time later ? and not to mention unwanted A/V sync problems which usually occour after splitting.

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thatz a good point but this why i sometimes encode before splitting........since encoding takes the longest i usually encode the whole movie(1 part) over night then in the morning i can split it..........but if i split it first i would have to get up in the middle of my sleep to load the split part to encode so i can have the whole movie encoded by the morning....well that why i encode the whole thing bfore i split it..so i dont have to get up in the night to set up the 2nd part to encode..

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[kidkurrupt]

eatin sammiches: wtf are sammiches anyways? anyways, haven't you ever heard of BATCH ENCODING? Put both projects into it and set it to shut down after. ******* idiot. j/k

[eatin sammiches for lunch]

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On 2001-10-20 17:20:48, kidkurrupt wrote:
eatin sammiches: wtf are sammiches anyways? anyways, haven't you ever heard of BATCH ENCODING? Put both projects into it and set it to shut down after. ******* idiot. j/k



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KIDKURRUPT U CALLIN ME AN IDIOT, WERENT U THE IDIOT WHO DIDNT KNOW HOW TO USE THE BIT-RATE CALCULATOR PROGRAM..WHERE ALL U DO IS ENTER THE MOVIE INFO.....MAN U THE IDIOT


hahaha u the idiot..u dont even know what a sammich is...u homo...hahaha

can tpmg do a mpeg2 batch encode???

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[kidkurrupt]

haha i'm glad to see i have a few fans on this bb, such as my lunch eating friend here. how bout studying some of my posts for a living, fatass?

yes, tmpg can batch encode any project you saved in it, including an mpeg2 project.

later

[eatin sammiches for lunch]

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On 2001-10-20 21:57:32, kidkurrupt wrote:
haha i'm glad to see i have a few fans on this bb, such as my lunch eating friend here. how bout studying some of my posts for a living, fatass?

yes, tmpg can batch encode any project you saved in it, including an mpeg2 project.

later

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lol...its nice to have friends

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[Jeomite]

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On 2001-10-18 12:11:51, clumzy wrote:
What version of TMPGenc do you use? Because (as I posted in another thread) when I try to split I get extra video (around 10 sec) at the end without sound. When I try to split the next segment the audio is really out of synch.
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This only happens when you cut/edit 23.976fps MPEG-2 files. For some reason those extra seconds without sound is somewhat connected to TMPGEnc expecting to cut a 29.97fps rather than a 23.976fps video, hence the excessive amount of video frames. =|

I originally used TMPGEnc to demultiplex my video, then use bbMPEG to mulitplex in portions. But now I encode my videos in a more efficient fashion. (I encode and calculate my DVDRips based on 'CDs'. For example, for a 90min movie, I would first find how much time my first half the movie will be on DISC1 [perhaps say 45:54 for example] and then calculate the bitrate I could use to fit 45:54 of video onto a 80min CDR and ditto for DISC2. get it? =]

[kidkurrupt]

Jeomite : what's wrong with the TMPG mux feature? why not use that instead of opening BBmpeg and doing the mux there?
Or better yet, why don't you use BBmpeg to do all the muxing and demuxing.