How long does it take?

[Poseidondescending]

I just downloaded the "trial" version of Visualhub - limited to 2 minute segments.

VERY ROUGHLY, how long does it take to convert an avi (usually xvid type) file of about 350 gb to burn as a video dvd, readable by a stand alone dvd player? "Divx Converter" takes a VERY long time - from 6-24 hours. How about Visualhub?

I use a Mac G3 900 mHz, 640 RAM.

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[guns1inger]

Seems slow, but then it is a pretty old Mac.

By comparison, my system can do it in better than real time using ConvertXtoDVD (which is ffmpeg based), or better than real-time per pass for a multi-pass CCE encoding.

In short - you are hardware bound, and one piece of software will only be incrementally better that another on your system.

[redwudz]

I think guns1inger is right, but since this is a Mac specific question, I'll move you to our Mac Forum where you may get some more answers.

And welcome to our forums.

[Poseidondescending]

Thanks for the reply! I forgot to say that I'm using an external dvd burner (MCE - Pioneer actually), firewire 400 connection.

[AlanHK]

VERY ROUGHLY, how long does it take to convert an avi (usually xvid type) file of about 350 gb to burn as a video dvd, readable by a stand alone dvd player?

Is that really 350 GIGAbytes? Or MEGAbytes?

[Poseidondescending]

Oops!! I meant Megabites! :P javascript:emoticon(':P')

[tomlee59]

My 800MHz G3 iBook can transcode XviD into MPEG-1 at about one-fourth or one-fifth speed. Conversion into DVD will be somewhat slower, but not by a huge amount. So, a one-hour movie takes about 5-6 hours. If you're seeing speeds that are much slower than that, you can probably do better. If not, it's working about as well as your hardware will allow.

[Poseidondescending]

Thanks for the reply! That's abut what I've experienced with Divx Decoder too.