Divx5.0.3 is slow

[Jdub87]

Hey all, ive been using divx 4 or something along those lines for awile and it worked fine and usually took about the amount of time to encode as it would to watch whats being encoded (2 hour movie would take 2 hours or so).

I get divx 5.0.3 (or whatever the latest is, 5.0.5 perhaps?) Whatever.

Anyways ive noticed a huge drop in performance, it encodes at roughly10 fps or less now no matter which program i use.

Is this normal? Wtf happened to the newer versions that made it so much more demanding on CPU?

Heres my specs:

windows xp pro, service pack 1
cheiftec case w/ an antec 350W true blue
asus a7n8x-deluxe
amd xp 1800+ tbred-b; thermaltake volcano 9
Radeon 9500 128 Meg NP- Softmoded to 9700 and currently running at 290.25/290.25
RAM: TOTAL 512 megs
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-256 megs of Corsair XMS DDR400 memory with Platinum Heat spreader (Bling bling babey
-256 Megs of Buffalo DDR400 CL2.5 RAM with Windbond chips.
-Currently running ram in slots 1 & 3 (Dual channel mode) at 266 mhz CL2.

Western Digital 800JB
pioneer dvd-116
buslink 48x12x48
overclocking: 11.5 X 166 fsb (1.92 ghz) ...see no reason to up it any further for now.

[FulciLives]

I first started using DivX with version 4.12 or something like that. I gave up around the early 5.0 versions because I finally got a DVD burner and wanted to do MPEG-2 encoding.

So I was "away" from DivX for a bit.

Recently I tried some encoding tests with the newest version of DivX (5.1.1) and DAMN it is SLOW

I mean it was somewhat SLOW before (me gots a SLOW computer) but the loss of speed is sickening with this newest version and I understand it has been that way with the last few revisions.

I tried the newest Xvid (called XviD 1.0 RC2 AKA Jambo) and it is WAY faster than DivX

In fact over at the DOOM9 WEBSITE they have been doing CODEC tests (mostly geared towards MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 alternatives) and the last test even mentioned how SHOCKED they were at the decreased speed of the newest DivX

Blah

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[au7usa]

Whenever i want DivX-AVI, i always encode with XviD and change the FOURCC afterward.

[feenix]

Whenever i want DivX-AVI, i always encode with XviD and change the FOURCC afterward

Why? Might make it readable but doesn't make it Divx

Even so why not just change the fourcc in the Xvid codec - it wll encode with it that way until you change it again.