Unbelieveable speed increase with CCE

[fmctm1sw]

I finally broke down and bought CCE basic after using TMPG for the longest time. TMPG is a great program but I could not believe the increase in speed I just saw. I have an 18 minute 3 Stooges short (B&W)I used as a test. I used an avisynth script to feed TMPG. Settings were 704x480 (same as incoming), 2 pass VBR (4300avg) and set the encoder to "motion search estimate." It rang up a little over 2 hours. I set it up in CCE with the same avisynth script (except for the converttorgb24() line) and it is currently telling me 32 minutes until completion!? Holy crap! I'm using a 2GHZ celeron. Maybe I have some incredibly dumb settings in CCE or something. I always wrote that colorspace conversion off as overrated, but maybe it isn't. Maybe I just hit a sweet spot or something...

[fmctm1sw]

Forgot about the second pass....

Oh well, its still about twice as fast...

[lordsmurf]

A 4x speed increase sounds fishy, yes.
A bit under double is more on key. Maybe.

[adam]

I get 4x faster encoding in CCE than in TMPGenc. Its quite common.

But fmctm1sw the colorspace conversion is only a minor part. The main speed difference is just a result of the encoding engine itself.

[reboot]

I think the only encoder that might be slower than tmpgenc, is Honestabe's (or whatever that silly thing is called). Honestech? I forget...