Why does Conversion take FOREVER?!

[Viceroy]

Hey Everyone,

I'm trying to convert a 150 meg file with Tmpeg and it says that it's going to take around 23 hours to convert. I have a farily fast computer, 900 mhz, 256 megs of ram....is there some reason why it will take a day to convert?

Thanks,
Steve

[NeWcS]

What are you converting it to vcd or svcd and at what bit rate. Thats waaaaaay to long for a file that size.

[Viceroy]

Converting an .avi to .mpeg....vcd.

Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

Thanks,
Steve

[vhelp]

Viceroy,

U must have every filter turned on - shee's... no wonder why you are
23hours going!

[NeWcS]

Before you start the encoded always goto file/ then new project.

That way everything is default

[Viceroy]

Filters?....where do I turn these off?

I went to file, new project and tried again......still says many many hours to convert?

:cry:

[vhelp]

viceroy,

maybe you just dragged or loaded your clip, and the DEFAULTS kicked
in. That sometimes means that the clip, say, 720x480 will encode to
720x480, hence your many hours to encode. This is just a guess.

You may have not even loaded a template. At least this is what it
sounds like to me.

How?
after you load your, ie, AVI file, say, by dragging or using the
browse key, by DEFAULT, video will become standard template. You have
to now LOAD in a template, ie, a VCD template (see VideoCD template)
and that will set your settings in tmpg to VCD encoding mode.

Try the above for starters. In addition, it would be helpful to
read the CONVERT (click it's link on the left in green shade) to
learn how to encode. ...or click the DVD link case it's that.

-vhelp

you to

[w00kiee]

goto the convert button to the left and then click the 'frameserv' tab

there might be a problem with the (i assume avi) file you are converting from

load it up (the avi) in virtual dub .. if it loads it with no problems then add a resize filter (change it to 352x240 and use bilinear) if it isnt already. then start the frameserving

it helps with mpeg sources as well tmpgenc doesnt seem to handle them well.. at least not for me anyways

[Viceroy]

I'm using the video cd ntsc format....and tried another file....still many hours? :(

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help so far.
Steve

[vhelp]

viceroy,

hmmmm.

For some reason, this sounds like a divX file. Judging by the way you
are approaching us here w/ an odd size, 150mb, sounds like you d/l'd
a divX clip of some sort. This could be part of your problem.
cause you shoudl NOT be getting anything like 23 hours for a 150mb
size AVI file! If you said that you loaded in a template, say a
VCD, then YOU SHOULD NOT BE getting 23 hours to encode! Either
something you're not telling us or you actually have a slow pc.

Be more specific w/ specs.
* What's your PC, ie, atlone, t-brd
duran, etc. . .
* What's some of tmpg settings under Video tab, Advanced tab. . .
* Where did you get the clip. . .

...gotta go. I"m still trying to perfect my encodes to best quality.

-vhelp

[ssdss]

Viceroy,
This is the deal. It is not you it is the file. Myself among many others on this forum are dealing with this same problem. I used to be able to convert those movie files in tmpg in a matter of a few hours but now it takes about 2 days and at the end it will not even convert the audio and gives you an error. There are a few people on the forum that are working on this solution, sefy and boston1 to just name a couple. Nothing has worked. If you try and load it in virtualdub it gives an error and says it is an asf file and virtualdub no longer supports it. So we tried to use an old version 1.3c and it starts to reconstruct the index and then errors out also. Tough problem with no solution. It seems to only be happening with downloaded movies at this time and just started a month or so ago. Keep plugin away at it. Someone will come up with a solution I'm sure.

[Chainu127]

ssdss, that sounds exactly like what is happening to me. I have 159MB Monsters, Inc. avi file and it took 75 hours to encode on my P2 450MHZ, 256MB Ram. After those 3 1/8 long days I find out it stopped encoding my audio after 34 seconds even though I checked back and there is no noticable audio glitching at that point. I tried loading up in VirtualDub and it says ASF, but gives me an error at the end. Let me know if we find anything out! Chainu127@Juno.com Thanks alot!

~Chainu

[ssdss]

I've been battling it for awhile now with no answers. Can view it fine on my computer but just cannot get it to convert to mpg. I'll keep this thread updated of anything I find. I sent SEFY a file to look at so there are some people working on it.

[Sefy]

Viceroy, your file does sound like a DivX file, the diffrence between yours and the others is, that you can actually open the file and start encoding it, while the others can't even open the file (ssdss, the link doesn't work, and i was on 50%).

So Viceroy, what you need to try is use VirtualDub to save the Audio in your DivX into a WAV file, then open TMPGEnc, select your DivX as the Video Input and the WAV as the Audio Input, and then load the VCD Template (make sure you load the Template LAST!) and then press the Encode.

[Viceroy]

bump

[Sefy]

Viceroy, instead of just bumping the topic, why didn't you say if you tried or not what i have suggested ?

[Viceroy]

Viceroy, instead of just bumping the topic, why didn't you say if you tried or not what i have suggested ?

It's not a divx file. I'm sorry, I was just hoping those working on this mysterious problem might have found something out.

[Sefy]

The file ssdss send me I was able to convert successfully using TMPGEnc 12a, the latest one doesn't handle it, also I would highly recommand using the Kristal Studio Codec pack, that's the only thing I had on my work PC and that was what was used to open the file.

[KSJ]

Hey Everyone,

I'm trying to convert a 150 meg file with Tmpeg and it says that it's going to take around 23 hours to convert. I have a farily fast computer, 900 mhz, 256 megs of ram....is there some reason why it will take a day to convert?

Thanks,
Steve

How long do you wait before cancelling the project when it tells you this?

For me, when I start encoding with TMPGenc, it starts telling me an absurdly long expected time remaining, then in a few seconds, it drops that time by a couple hours, and a few seconds later, it drops the time by maybe 1 hour 50 minutes, and then 1 hour 40 minutes, and so on, with the increment of time it drops every few seconds getting smaller the closer it gets to the actual expected encoding time, until it might be dropping 10 or 5 seconds from the expected time every couple of seconds. Depending on the length of my file, it may take a couple hours for the "time remaining" figure to be an accurate estimate of how much time is actually remaining.

So if I'm encoding a 43 minute TV episode, it might start off telling me it's going to take 120 hours, then 95 hours, then 81 hours, 73 hours, 66 hours, 58 hours, 50 hours, 45 hours, 41 hours, 38 hours, 35 hours, 33 hours, 31:45, 29:50, and so on, and so forth, until it ends up my actual encoding time is only 6 or 7 hours.

KSJ

[Viceroy]

It says a short amount of time, and then continues to get bigger, and bigger and bigger. :(

Steve