Does RAM effect VCD/SVCD encoding and converting time?

[Orgazmo]

Alrigth, I have a P3 450mhz with 128 ram. It currently takes me about 30 hours to encode an SVCD. I'm planning on upgrading my RAM to 512 in a week. My question is, will this speed up encoding times? If not, then what will?

[spiderman2k1]

I might but no by very much if you want more ram to go fast I would say sale your money for a new PC. my freind has a P4 1.7 with rambus a two hour movie take 2 and a half hours with SDram it took and extra 10 minutes and that's on a very fast PC. if you want more ram to make your pc more stable then get it's cheep. Also best buy sell's PNY ram alot it's the best SDram there is

[Douglesh]

my question is this. are you sure your MB is able to take 512mb ram? sounds like you have a PC which is about 1 month newer than mine, i have a celeron 400 and it only has 2 ram expansion slots, so the max. ram is 256 megs. check your MB first, most older type MB's that use 100mhz ram or 133mhz ram only have 2 slots.

[Douglesh]

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On 2001-10-19 18:46:06, Orgazmo wrote:
Alrigth, I have a P3 450mhz with 128 ram. It currently takes me about 30 hours to encode an SVCD. I'm planning on upgrading my RAM to 512 in a week. My question is, will this speed up encoding times? If not, then what will?
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A new chipset, you dont have to get a new PC, getting a new chipset is a good deal, only a couple of hundred dollars. I reccomend you look for a p3 800 or around that range, they will be quite cheap to pick up.

[Beretta]

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On 2001-10-19 20:19:29, Douglesh wrote:
most older type MB's that use 100mhz ram or 133mhz ram only have 2 slots.
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Generalizations suck. My board is 100mhz, and it has 4 slots (Tyan). Each slot is capable of accepting a 512MB chip. Thus having a max of 2GB RAM.

[tigerwolf]

what operating system are you running?
What other programs do you have running, not just
working on, but loaded in your systray?
what type of motherboard do you have?
what type of ram do you use?
how fast is your hard drive?
how much free space do you have?
how fragmented is it?
How is your memory being handled? have you tweaked any of
the windows settings are just left them at default?

etc.

I mean to really diagnose things and try and get your encoding time down takes more then just the concept of upgrades. Also have you checked on a bios update for your motherboard? this may sound silly, but many times a bios update will fix little quarks and change the way the system handles things. What program are you using to encode what priority do you give it?

I mean before you go out and bump yourself up to 512mb of ram which is way more then a general user needs, take a few of these things into account.

have a great day,
TW

[tinycorkscrew]

RAM is important for video editing (ie for programs like Premiere and such), but excess memory makes little if any difference when encoding with programs like TMPGEnc.

Processing power is the single most important consideration when encoding by far.

[Greg12]

so i am getting a mobile pentium 3 at 866megs.

how long can should it take to encode a 45 minute video with tmpg's highest motion search.

on my dell running at 350mhz, it's 20 hours.

[Yeshi]

wow, 20 hours, thats slow shit

[el_mondo]

go dual boys!!!
http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/d6vaa.htm
youl love it

[thxkid]

Boy can't anyone on this forum just answer the guys question.

Yes more ram will make a difference to a certain point, a faster processor, 1 gig or higher and 512 megs of ram would make a huge difference. a 7200rpm 30-40 gig hard drive does also.
make sure to defrag your current hard drive, remove as much as possible from your task bar that you feel safe in doing so and have nothing else running in the background.
Plus are we talking about a true 450 P3 or a 350 overclocked to 450? overclocking can make a difference also, more heat, slower speeds.

[vitualis]

In response to Orgazmo's specific question and situation, (of going from 128 MB --> 512 MB of RAM) it is unlikely to have any effect on encoding speed at all.

This being said, there is no harm in getting more RAM and your PC may be more stable and faster for other things.

Regards.

[bbb]

You need a faster Processor.

128 Megs is plenty for encoding on Win 98SE (don't use WinME). If you're on Win 2000/XP, then you will need the extra RAM since these OS requires more RAM. However, if you don't receive "out of memory" messages and don't have hard disk thrashing (from constant virtual memory use), then you don't need more RAM. There will be no real speed benefit.

A new processor will lower encoding times from 20-30 hours to 2-3 hours. P4 2 GHz will be the fastest since Tmpgenc and CCE are optimized for P4s. However, you can encode nearly as fast and have a clear conscious by using an Athlon 1.4 GHz ($120 vs $560).

I'm also in the process of upgrading to an Athlon. I recommend the latest, fastest Athlon motherboard chipset, the well regarded KT266A (from newegg.com). These can be upgraded to the newer, even faster Athlon XP CPUs when they become cheaper. Also, some KT266A motherboards have on-board RAID hard drive controllers (great for capturing video at larger resolutions without dropped frames).

This will cost about $400-$450 if you decide to get a new KT266A motherboard ($130), Athlon 1.4 Ghz ($120), DDR RAM ($120), new 300+ Watt Athlon recommended powersupply ($60), CPU heatsink and fan ($30), Artic Silver heatsink conductor goo ($5). Newegg.com has all the parts but get RAM at crucial.com.

The cost is like a one or two weeks' paycheck and will save you many months-years of your life so you can perform other experiments like kidnap lil' buddies, try to brainwash them with porn SVCDs, and bury their bodies after having fun with them.

Hope this tidbit helps.

[Lamont Cranston]

Orgazmo if you are running win 98 or win me add the following in system.ini [386 enh]:

ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
This reverts swap file usage back to Windows 95 style, and forces the use of the computer's physical memory (faster) first, before the use of the slower hard disk virtual memory (swap file). Default is enabled (0)

You can run the System Monitor program and monitor swap file size. Set the minimum swap file size to that value and this will eliminate fragmentation of the swap file.

There is an improvment performance of some applications but none that I could see with encoding.



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[vcd4u]

Encoding avi files with TMPGEnc uses 99% to 100% of your processor and uses only 2.292K and little bit more of the RAM, You can see it your self if you're running Win200 just by pressing ctrl+alt+del and select task manager on the next screen and go to processes window of the task manager. Most of the encoders of today use the same amount of processor power. Remember that if you want to speed up your encoding time you must have a faster cpu but it doesn't mean that you also have to get a big amount of RAM but of course you'll need a minimum of 128 MGRam. These are not the only things to consider.