1.4Ghz Athlon, but still saying 12hours to encode

[CGUFFEY]

I just got a 1.4Ghz AMD Athlon with 256 Meg of DDR ram 80gig Western Digital 7200rpm harddrive and it still says that it will take 10-13 hours to encode a moview into the DVD MPEG2 format. This is only slightly better than the pentium 3 700 that I had before. I am using TMPEG to encode. Does any one else get better times, or am I using the wrong settings or something.

[Jason A]

Depends on the size of the movie. You did not tell us....

but..I have only AMD for my systems.

My video capture/dvd-rip/editing system is a 1.2 that is sitting nice at 1.4ghz...
2 sticks of 512mb PC-133 (so 1 gig ram)
20gig system
40gig final drive
60 gig scratch or capture disk.
DVD-rom / Cd-RW

Anywhoo...

When compressing a 60min DV-avi file into MPEG2-DVD using Tmpeg..I usually take around 1.5-to-1 ratio...so

I usually take around 70-75 minutes...this is at..

MPEG2 VBR
7500 max..5000 constant...no less then 2500.
quality max....2 pass encoding on full...

That's about it.

Jason

[Jeomite]

You probably choose 'Highest Quality' instead of 'High Quality'. There is no signicant difference between those two except a lot of encode time! =(
Change it to 'High Quality'. FYI, that 2Pass VBR doubles your encode time, but of course better quality.

It also revolves around the lenght of your video as well.