AutoGK is slooooooooow

[Sober]

I used TMPGENC before and it did DVD to AVI quite fast. Im basically ripping individual chapters of a DVD in order to make a Movie trailer in Premier.
Is this what makes TMPGENC the best program? Is AutoGK notorious for being slow?
Its sad that TMPGENC only lasts a month or so cause it really was great but I dont really have the money to buy the full version.

[celtic_druid]

For encoding avi's, I would put TMPGEnc somewhere down near the bottom of the list.

Given the same codecs and settings, AutoGK should definatly be faster since TMPGEnc converts to RGB24 and AutoGK keeps the entire process in YV12.

What settings were you using in TMPGEnc? Were you even using XviD/DivX as a codec?

[hhhhbk]

i personally find auto gk incredibly fast

the results using approx 700MB per hour are impressive

setting autogk up to encode takes about 5 seconds wheras if you do programs manually it takes ages

encoding wise i find it excellent
it uses virtual dub mod IIRC which is widely regarded as *one of* the best tools for encoding xvid

your pentium 4 2.4 GHz machine should be capable of producing decent encode times with autogk

total encode time should be somewhere between the length of the dvd file and 2x the length of the dvd file
it will depend on ram what other programs you are running etc

when you say you used tmpeg before are you sure that was for creating an avi from a dvd rather than going the other way
as turning an avi into a dvd with tmpeg would be in approx real time of the file (maybe slightly quicker than real time)