TMPGEnc question

[tragic boy]

Hey
Is there anyway to resume conversions from rmvb to mpg in TMPGEnc? One half of the file will take 8 hours to convert so I'm wondering is there anyway I can stop/start, re open it and it will resume it from the point I left it.
Thanks

[aedipuss]

nope. once you start the only option is stop and from there, no resuming is possible. one option you could try is to set the program's priority to low and let it run in the background on unused processor cycles. the other is to let it run overnight and it should be done in the morning.

[Capt.Video]

As puss said, theres no "pause". I usually encode at nite when I sleeping or during the day when Im at work. Or, just before bed, setup a batch and let it encode all nite and all the next day, when I get home from work I have 3 or 4 DVD ready MPEGs to burn.

[tragic boy]

What about using the stream option? Can you like record say 5 minutes at a time - each a different file and then somehow join them into one video?

[guns1inger]

If you don't mind the audio droping out of sync. Encoding is one of the most CPU intensive tasks you can throw at your computer, and takes time. That said, CCE can probably encode the same material in around 2.5 hours, if it takes tmpgenc 8.

[FulciLives]

CCE is much faster than TMPGEnc not to mention that CCE uses the YUY/YUV colorspace which is what most video is in whereas TMPGEnc uses the RGB colorspace.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[tragic boy]

So will CCE encode rmvb to mpg?
No use in me downloading it as it only does 3 minutes right?
If I was to get rid of the audio then could the videos been merged fine?
And why is the file soo large. Of the 369 mb file I'm converting, 5 minutes of the converted file is 56 mb.

[guns1inger]

Different types of codecs give different levels of compression and different levels of quality. Bitrate is the overriding factor, but two different codecs can give different results at the same bitrate. Codecs are like apples and oranges, and can't ne compared on size alone.

CCE has a demo that watermarks the output.

[TooLFooL]

i wish ALL these damned video tools had the option to stop & resume later...!

[guns1inger]

The issue is that temporal compression relies on knowing both the frames before and the frames after the frame you are compressing. It might be possible to break and resume on an I-frame.

This is one of the reasons effects people render to still frames and not to video files