PC System for time converting

[Valent]

im getting a

Pentium 4 2.8gig.
1 gig or ram
western digital 250 7200rpm sata or ide.

ok i have this question
lets say i have

1 hour AVI .. convert to mpeg2 using TMPEG PLUS. in high quality and low quality?

how long would it take?

my current celeron 1.1gig takes 6 hours for mpeg2 conversion. with tmpeg plus..

any help? i want faster encoding time.. with good quality vid.
what system should i get man?

thanks for the help peeps

[pchan]

My system is Intel P4 3.0C, Ram 512M byte, Hitachi 120Gb hard disk. It takes 9.5 minutes to convert 10 minutes of raw video (AVI) to VCD PAL (high quality) using TMPGEnc.

[redwudz]

Well, there are a whole lot of variables, but at least you should be able to cut that time in half. If you use DDR memory, a fast FSB motherboard, you should be able to do better than that. Processor and Front Side Bus speed are the most important, memory less and HD speed the least. No matter what, you should be a lot faster than a 1.1 Celeron which has a small CPU cache.

[Valent]

yeah, but i would like to know the converting TIME from you people

1 hour avi to mpeg2.. how long man?

cos im gonna get a 2.8 gig or maybe a althon 2600gigz.

i heard people in this forum with p4 2.2 gig.. convert 1 hour avi to mpeg2 takes very long hour..

show me ur time ppl!!! high quality or low

[Sifaga]

2 hours 37 minutes

[budz]

3 hrs for a 14 gb avi file (1hour 11min movie).
TMPGE VBR 3000kbps, 2 PASS.

[holistic]

Mine so damn fast it is warping time/space and I am now in the middle of putting Shrek2 to DVD. :P

[Tom Lewandowski]

Nobody can give you an exact time difference; it's video and variable dependent. Just know it will probably be about twice as fast as your current system. My recent update from a 1 GHz PIII with 256 MB RAM, to a P4 2.66 GHZ with 512 MB RAM roughly took high quality encoding with TMP half the time with a 50-minute AVI capture.

Though, I think Safaga's answer is probably correct.

[nick1977]

As a basis of comparison (my systems):

Before: P3 500MHz , 384MB 100MHz RAM 1hour = 7 hours approx

After: P4 2.53MHz, 512MB 333MHz RAM 1hour = 1.5 hours approx

Files are typically 352x576, motion search precision high, frameserved from virtualdub and recorded using huffyuv codec.

Hope this helps
Nick

[mats.hogberg]

On my system (see specs) Mainconcept takes 1.4 times real time to encode to DVD m2v from frame served AVI source. Resizing is done before frame serving (VirtualDub).

/Mats