MPEG2 Works ... How long?

[russ stevens]

I am trying to convert an avi file to MPEG2. It's about 1hr 49 mins and is 700MB. How long should MPEG2 Works take to convert.

I'm using a TBook 1GHZ 512RAM

Thanks in anticipation.
Russ

[galactica]

1 hour 49 min to complete? or is it still going?

[russ stevens]

No, the video is 1hr 49 minutes! its been running for about 5 hours now!

I have followed your instructions from the post last week, AVI to Mpeg2.

Any ideas???

many thanks.

[thoughton]

On my laptop (667Mhz G4) I would expect that to take about 10-12 hours, so presumably on yours it would be 66% of that.

[russ stevens]

I've just checked the m2V file and its up to 112MB after 6 hours! Maybe by next Friday it'll be done!!!

[tgpo]

Any ideas???

Wait it out.

[galactica]

this seems excessive. I run them usually overnight, 8-10 hours and its done by the time i wake up.

[tgpo]

When you say TBook, did you mean an iBook??

G3 or G4?

[russ stevens]

I've followed Galactica's tutorial (DIVX to DVDR) and still no luck. At the end of the process I just get playback of a black screen!

I'm using a Titanium G4 Powerbook and have never been so stumped! Any further ideas?

Thanks in anticipation

[sdm]

Russ,
I'm not sure why you got a black screen.

but the time it is taking is completely normal.

I wouldnt be surprised if your encoding takes 10-15 times the length of the video.
109 mins x 10 = 1090 minutes ~ 18 hours
109 mins x 15 = 1635 minutes ~ 27 hours.

mpeg2 encoding takes along time.

when its done, please post how long it took. I am curious.
Thanks[/quote]

[puddle]

i, too, have resulted in a black screen (no video, just audio) after MPEG2Works finished.

the avi was an hour and fifty minutes long and 700MB. it took 5 and a half hours to demux.

perhaps i should try converting it in ffmpegX first?

[thoughton]

Do you have the Quicktime mpeg2 component?

[puddle]

i don't believe i do.

but when i converted the avi to mpg (mpeg-2) in ffmpegX and then demuxed it in ffmpegX it worked fine after i authored it in Sizzle.

i guess i could save myself a step if i had the quicktime mpeg2 component.

[SERBIAN]

Make sure You have Divx and 3Vix codecs from
http://download.divx.com/divx/mac/DivX511Installer.sit
and http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos.html..

If Your AVI is playable in QuickTime, Youll get video for sure...Also make sure You install MPEG2 component for QuickTime as thoughton said...

[live4ever]

Make sure you you have all the codecs and plug-ins everyone else has mentioned.

Then in QuickTime Pro cut & paste 30-60 seconds of your avi save it as self-contained movie. And play around with Mpeg2 Works' settings, select 'watch in Terminal' and encode your movie.

It should take you at least 5x as long to convert it to mpeg2.

For me (1.25ghz G4 'book) it take 4-5x, so for a short 1min clip it takes about 4.5min to make a mpeg2 file (also depends on what else you're doing while it's encoding).

So for a ~ 2 hour file, it will take 9-10 hours to convert.

But if you still have problems post the Terminal text here.