Fastest program to convert avi to dvd is to long

[goheadtry]

I have a program that takes way to long called dvd flick it takes like three hours to convert to DVD is there a faster program? I don't want a menu either.

[guns1inger]

ConvertXtoDVD is faster, and will give you about 90% of the quality of DVD Flick.

WinAVI is faster again, and will give you around 70% of the quality and will crash a lot.

If you seriously want to speed up your encoding, spend some money, get a quad core intel CPU, and you can use FAVC to produce a DVD in under 30 minutes. I can.

Bottom line, speed and quality rarely go together when it comes to encoding. Only raw grunt will give you real speed improvements and keep quality acceptable.

[mats.hogberg]

And as always: The fastest way is not to convert at all, but get a DVD player that also plays DivX/XviD AVI. The cost is the same as most commercial "allinone AVI to DVD" offerings.

/Mats

[Maikeru-sama]

Hey, let me ask you guys a couple of questions about ConvertXtoDVD.

1) If I have an MKV that has IDX/Sub subs, can I import it into ConvertXtoDVD and the subs show while playing on the DVD player or would I still have to use an OCR program to convert the IDX/Sub and then import it into ConvertXtoDVD.

2) Does ConvertXtoDVD work with Avisynth scripts?

[mats.hogberg]

From the developers site:

Handles subtitles files (.SRT .SUB/IDX .SSA) with color and font selection, and supports tags (italic, bold)

You may have to demux it tho. And yes, convertx2dvd can read AviSynth scripts.

/Mats

[Maikeru-sama]

From the developers site:

Handles subtitles files (.SRT .SUB/IDX .SSA) with color and font selection, and supports tags (italic, bold)

You may have to demux it tho. And yes, convertx2dvd can read AviSynth scripts.

/Mats

Yeah, I knew I would have to demux it, but I didn't know if ConvertXToDVD would accept them.

Also, you may or may not know this, but do MKVs that use IDX always come with a .sub file or can you have one without the other?

Thanks in advance

[mats.hogberg]

There can be sub subtitle files on their own, but then it's a text based sub. The kind of sub that usually go together with a idx is pretty useless without the idx, just as idx is pointless without the sub. Basically, the sub contains the images for the subtitles, the idx is information on when to show what image from the sub.

/Mats

[Maikeru-sama]

There can be sub subtitle files on their own, but then it's a text based sub. The kind of sub that usually go together with a idx is pretty useless without the idx, just as idx is pointless without the sub. Basically, the sub contains the images for the subtitles, the idx is information on when to show what image from the sub.

/Mats

Thanks for the response.

Spent a few minutes fooling around with ConvertXToDVD.

I got stream errors, which I am assuming it was the audio, which is OGG.

I was also confused on which file, the IDX or the SUB to drag into the Stream Portion but I saw that it didn't matter which one, as it does the same thing. What is cool is that if you demux the IDX/SUB files, it will automatically add them to the stream list.

I am sure I will have more questions but I am at work and it is impossible to judge the software one way or another.

[Delta2]

If you seriously want to speed up your encoding, spend some money, get a quad core intel CPU, and you can use FAVC to produce a DVD in under 30 minutes. I can.

too much I think for a Quad

I have friends of mine with Quads which had sent me this pictures

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6600/quadspeed1ge5.jpg

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9967/quadspeed2mj3.jpg

130.000 frames in about 8 minutes is much better, with CCE...they didn't tried HCEnc

I have a regular Dual Core Notebook, very poor, it takes about 40m to encode, or 1 H

[thecoalman]

http://www.cray.com/downloads/product_images/Cray_XT5.jpg

[guns1inger]

If you seriously want to speed up your encoding, spend some money, get a quad core intel CPU, and you can use FAVC to produce a DVD in under 30 minutes. I can.

too much I think for a Quad

I have friends of mine with Quads which had sent me this pictures

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6600/quadspeed1ge5.jpg

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9967/quadspeed2mj3.jpg

130.000 frames in about 8 minutes is much better, with CCE...they didn't tried HCEnc

I have a regular Dual Core Notebook, very poor, it takes about 40m to encode, or 1 H

Creating a DVD is more than just video encoding. That time includes applying pulldown, encoding audio, muxing and authoring. I get encoding speeds of 125 - 140 fps on average with HCEnc.

[AlanHK]

Creating a DVD is more than just video encoding. That time includes applying pulldown, encoding audio, muxing and authoring. I get encoding speeds of 125 - 140 fps on average with HCEnc.

If you're really in a hurry, HCEnc, which is normally a two-pass encoder, can be set to one pass "constant quantization" (on Settings 1 page). The size of the output file is unpredictable then, but it takes about half the time and quality is still good.

[guns1inger]

FAVC uses a Predictive Quant mode that hits the right size and can also split the file and process in sections for separate cores. At the moment this is faster than letting HCEnc do it's own thread management.