OMG! DVD2SVCD 25+ hours???

[silab]

Is this normal?

I only have Pentium 3 @ 500 with 512 RAm and WindowsXP.

This is my first time to use this program, is this even normal?

I set it at 11 midnight, woke up at 6AM and CCE just finished doing something then goes this conversion to another file format that is gonna take another 17 hours?? And i suppose it will do another conversion to mpeg?

What am I doing wrong?

Also, it ripped 6 vobs, i thought it would only rip one.

[Truman]

What am I doing wrong?

You did not read a DVD2SVCD guide and you did not read the CCE manual. MPEG encoding is quite complex stuff. Even if you use dvd2svcd it is worth to learn something about it.

[w00kiee]

being that i currently have a slow pc (375 mhz k6/2) i avoid all in one solutions. would take a week of straight plugging to do a project. i use smart ripper and dvd2 avi and setup the encodes individually

a 3 hour movie like pearl harbor had 7 vobs just on disk 1!!.. a 90 minute movie will likely have 5 or so (not including 'extras' which will use more vobs) your ripper will only pick the largest assuming that is the main film
or is smart enough to figure out by the ifo what is the main move (disk 2 of pearl harbors VOBS for the main movie is smaller than the 'making of...' VOBS so smart wanted to rip that instead.. hopefully you view the VOBS before encoding..

and yeah.. a 500 mhz p3 aint what it used to be... svcd gonna take a while even on that .. cant wait till my 950 amd gets here tomorrow (rubs hands)

anyways.. you should view a dvd2avi guide (available here and more detailed ones on doom9.org) then you will understand the process a bit more

[stanwebber]

25hours is not out of line even for a 1ghz cpu. ivtc + subs will run me that long

[sommersby]

Thats probubly about right for your CPU. Running it on my AMD 1600+xp from start to finish takes about 7-8 hours and over all the system is probubly about 3-4 times faster.

[Vejita-sama]

First, the default setting in DVD2SVCD is 5pass VBR. W/ a slow computer (and 500Mhz is slow) I would drop that done to 1pass VBR or CBR. But you're speed sounds about right.

I had a K6-2 500 and it took me ~18hrs to convert a 90mn DivX in TMPGenc to MPEG1. CCE is faster than TMPGenc, but I'd still expect 13hrs+.

[silab]

I actually followed the instructions on doom website. I followed everything thats on there

Anyhow, i guess my pc is slow thats why. So I think i should just be sticking with DVD to Video CD but right now cant find the right tools. So many guides and I dont know which one to follow.

So if i dont use all in one, it goes like

Use smart ripper to rip, then DVD2AVI (what file will it be?), then use tmpgenc (?) to VideoCD?

[Vejita-sama]

You can use DVD2SVD just change, you just need to change one setting. Under the 'CCE tab' change from 5pass VBR (the default) to a lower value.

Either CBR, or enter 1-3 in the VBR space. This will lower your encode time. The bottle neck isn't the software, it's your CPU. CCE is faster than TMPGenc so...

[silab]

Well ill try one more time tonight and see