shortest way to encode 5.5 hrs of avi's using tda3

[cduval04]

I am encoding roughly 5.5 hours of avi fileswith tda3 onto dvd using 1 pass VBR and it still takes like 8 hours...is there anything i can do to make this time shorter (maybe encode to divx instead of dvd - will my dvd player play divx) i just dont know much about this stuff...whats the way i could encode/burn that would take the least amount of time with tda3...note: I am not too concerned about picture quality as long as it isnt any worse than like a vhs tape....i am wondering this becuase i have 5 dvds to do...all with about 5.5 hours of video ...5x8 hours = 40 hours...yikes!!! ill do it if i have to but are there any shortcuts??

[guns1inger]

If the computer specs in profile are correct then are probably doing better than you should. Encoding is primarily a CPU intensive task, and CPU will be the main bottle neck. You have a very old, slow CPU, so you get slow encodes. The biggest change you can make is to upgrade. Beyond that, try ConvertXtoDVD, which should be somewhat faster. But you are talking small degrees. You want a major step up in speed you will have to spend some money.

[cduval04]

no actually those arent the correct specs...ive gotten a new computer since then and it has 100gb hd a amd 64 x2 and 1 gb of ram i just havent updated my profile....plus the first season of the show that I did had 13 episodes and it took an hour and 45 min...the second season had the same number of episodes and it took 9 hours.......how come??...I had the settings the same..I will change my profile

[yoda313]

Well did you have other tasks running in the background? That would change your processing time if you kept all other settings the same.

[cduval04]

no i had the same prcesses during both burns... funny thing though....when I added the 13 episodes of the first season..the meter only went up to like 2.3 gigs...when i add the 13 episodes of the second season the meter goes up to liek 15 gigs, so i go into track setting and realize that the but rate for the second season is waaaay higher, so i lower it until it equals the size of the first season, and so it will fit on a single layer disc but it still doesnt change the encoding time...

ive tried 2 pass vbr, 1 pass vbr and even cbr but they all have realativly the same encoding time...give or take an hour or so, and that is like 8 hours...how come the first season of this show which had the same number of episodes takes so much less time that the 2nd and 3rd what is dfferent about them? I went to the folder that i keep them in on my hard drive and the folder for the first season was like 2.5gb and the folder for the second season was like 2.9 but how come it showed up as 15gb when i added it to tda3 and the first season didnt...like i said i lowered the bitrate on the second season and it seemed to lower the size significatly , but how come it didnt lower the encoding time?? any help?? im confused