Will TMPGEnc Plus speed improve on a dual processor system?

[gOdiSOnyOuRsIDe]

I currently have alot of Anime I want to covert to DVD so I can watch it on my tv instead of my tiny 19' crt monitor. I use TMPGEnc to covert 3 animes before I goto sleep every night because it takes around 7~8 hours for each one to complete. A friend of mine is using a 3ghz dual processor Xeon workstation and I was wondering will the encoding speed of TMPGEnc improve if used on a dual processor system? Do programs have to support dual processors to work or do they work the same as 1 processor?

[Supreme2k]

TMPGEnc supports multiple processors.

And yes, it will go faster, but why? Just enjoy your sleep

[gOdiSOnyOuRsIDe]

Well, anime series are usually 26 episodes in length and if I encode 3 episodes a night that will take me almost 8 nights to encode the entire series. I want to do something like 6~8 episodes a night.

[yoda313]

Hello,

gOdiSOnyOuRsIDe- I can watch it on my tv instead of my tiny 19' crt monitor

You call that tiny?!? I finally upgraded to a used 17" monitor. You know I was watching dvds on a 15" monitor? (not for the whole movie but to test discs and of course games). Well good luck with your project.
Kevin

[RottenFoxBreath]

even an athlon2500+ could do 1 episode in little less than the episode itself.
i remember mine could do a 1 1/2 hour movie in about 2 hours.

[gOdiSOnyOuRsIDe]

even an athlon2500+ could do 1 episode in little less than the episode itself.

i remember mine could do a 1 1/2 hour movie in about 2 hours.

Well that depends on your settings. Each anime episode I encode is around 26mins and I set TMPGEnc mpeg2 encoding values to the highest possible (i.e., 2-pass vbr, dc component precesion at 10-bit, motion search precesion set to highest quality). Each 26min episode takes me around 2'n a half hours to encode using those settings and I'm running on a 2.6C OC'ed to 3019MHz with 1024MB of PC3200 and 2x 74gb in RAID0.

[junkmalle]

You could just run two instances of TMPGENC.

[lordsmurf]

Using 10-bit in TMPGENC is not a good idea. Base bits off your bitrate.

You don't need all those settings. You're making this harder than it needs to be. And you're using slow software. If you ONLY need to convert, no filters, use something better. I use PROCODER for this.

[Aznmask]

use MainConcept MPEG Encoder it alot faster.. for me around 15min

[gOdiSOnyOuRsIDe]

So which one is better MainConcept MPEG Encoder or PROCODER? All I want to do is convert ogg, divx, xvid video, to high quality dvd compliant mpeg2.

[PIntag]

I was using the same "high-quality" settings in TMPGenc as you but then set Motion Search Precision to Estimate and cut the encode times in half. The resulting video was no different and was even the exact same size. It's worth experimenting a bit.

[SatStorm]

The best encoder is CCE (paired with avisynth). Then we have Mainconcept for PAL, procoder for NTSC, TMPGenc plus for both.

IMO, the differences are almost unoticable at DVD bitrates. All those encoders do an excellent job and the results are about the same. The speed is another issue..

[rhegedus]

Set the motion picture search to normal too - you won't notice the difference.