6 + hours convert avi to dvd with TEMPGEnc 2.5, is this norm

[wmosner]

Takes me anywhere from 6 to 10 hours to convert a movie in .avi to dvd using TEMPGEnc. Have an amd +3200 chip, 2 gigs ram, plenty hard drive space. These are full length avi movies. Am I doing something wrong or is this normal time needed to convert?

Thanks, Bill

[yoda313]

Hello,

What quality level are you using??? Did you use fast motion????

Are you running anything else at the same time????? Does it have vbr audio?????

Kevin

-----avi's take a long time to convert to mpg on any system, though depending on your configuation and what you're doing to it can take even longer-----

[jimmalenko]

about 3X runtime is about normal if you have your motion search precision settings on either High or very high, and/or you have any filters working, and/or you are resizing the picture to a different frame size.

[wmosner]

I am converting at highest quality settings. One recently released movie took about 12 hours to convert and that just seems way too long.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Lower the quality and it will go faster

Sorry but that's the way it goes when encoding files......

Kevin

[hhhhbk]

set the conversion up to run overnight that way you dont lose use of the pc when you want it