transcoding takes me 12-16 HOURS~!!!!

[yersweetazn]

ok, so... if you've looked in my profile it is obvious the system i'm running should be pretty much up-to-date, well.. good enough to burn some simple dvds. i download tv-shows from another country and the quality of them are average, they take less than 30min to download at 300KBs and each run about 35-40 minutes long. that should give you a clue on wht kind of quality the video clips are. i try to make a compilation of them on a dvd to send to my parents (all together each dvd should be from 2-3 hours in length) since they miss the old soap-opra'z from our home country, but using the latest verson of nero, it takes me 12 to up to 18 hours to transcode wmv to dvd mpeg!

i figured it waz becauze i waz transcoding wmv files, so then i started to download random things and started transcoding avi, divx, xvid, mpeg, and mpg, but it still takes about half a day to transcode. finally one day i try to burn the same files (WMV) on my tower uzing arcsoft showbiz, and transcoding the same files takes only an hour to an hour and a half at most. my tower is not even half the speed of my labtop, and has half the ram. the only problem i have iz that the damn tower's burner is super picky about the media that it burns on, so after transcoding i have to move all the VOB files to the laptop and burn it there.

can anyone tell why transcoding on my laptop takes a million years to transcode? and wht can i do about it?

[alsyed]

don't use nero to do it. convert you wmv files to mpg files using somethign like tmpgenc plus. then import the mpegs into nero.

i recently did a a convert of a wmv file that was fairly lowish quality, 46 minutes in length, took just over 20 minutes to make to a 352 x 288 mpeg2 file with audio.

[reboot]

If they're not great quality to begin with, just use CQ-VBR at about Q70.
Set Motion search precision at Motion Search Estimate (fast).
Set Max and average bitrate less than 4000, or even 2500 (SVCD quality).
Set to 352x240/288 aspect, or Half D1 anyhow.
Single pass will be twice as fast as 2 pass, and MSE fast will be even quicker..

[yersweetazn]

ok, thnx every1, i've got tmpgenc and i'm mess'n around wit it, it is a little weird, but anyways, does any1 know how to speed the process up with nero?

[budz]

ok, thnx every1, i've got tmpgenc and i'm mess'n around wit it, it is a little weird, but anyways, does any1 know how to speed the process up with nero?

why would you want the transcoding to be done with nero and nope i don't know anyway for nero to speed up the process. use TMGPE PLUS as already suggested to convert your files to MPEG.

[lordsmurf]

http://www.digitalfaq.com/convert/tmpgenc/tmpgencplus.htm

[yersweetazn]

ok, so i've been uzing tmpgenc plus, transcoding or converting a 20min video takes about 25 min in a low resolution video with cbr mpeg-1 layer II Audio. so it is still taking longer or at least as long as watching the entire video clip. i do have the priority set to high for both options. is there no way i can transcode in at least half the time it takes to watch the whole video?

[wulf109]

There faster mpeg encoders than TMPEG. CCE or Main Concept,but they require muxing the file.

[lordsmurf]

No.