Faster encoding

[muskie]

I am not a computer wiz but I have figured out that the reason my encoding with tmpgenc takes so long is because I have an amd-k6 333mhz processor. My motherboard is an asus. If I change out my motherboard to an asus a7v socket 462 with an althone xt 1800 how much will it speed up the process? Is this a good combation? Any takers on this question?

[condone]

my Athlon 1.4Ghz takes about 8 hours with 2Pass VBR SVCD (but that was Saving Private Ryan, a 3 hour movie) so a VCD would probably be 3 or so hours and a normal 2Pass SVCD about 6-7 hours. your 1.8Ghz system would be about 30mins-60mins faster on each, depending on how well the movie can compress. i cant give u an exact calculation, hope that helps.

[Mirror_Image]

Video encoding is heavily CPU dependent. To oversimplify things: The more CPU muscle you have, the faster your files will be encoded.

[xaanin]

Also remember that the XP has SSE instructions which the K6 doesn't have. Just upgrade, the difference will be noticable. What takes 8 hours on my 1 Ghz Athlon takes about 30 hours on my P3 450. You can see the difference

[muskie]

Thank you all for your input. It has helped alot.

[FusionMafia]

I have a question also about encoding speeds..
I have Amd 1,2, 512mb and using TMPGenc in WinXP. I takes about 6 hours to encode 45 minute material captured from VHS. I use DVD PAL VBR 4000kbs settings which are set by default in tmpgenc.

Is there any settings I could change in TMPGenc to make it faster? I don't mean the settings that effect the video but settings in the program itself.

[Chris X]

Yes, u can set the priority levels and disable viewable display when encoding should speed things up a few but not shure by how much.

[aruprc16]

Using TMPGEnc Pro and SVCD VBR 1950kbps my dual P-III 850 is roughly one hour faster than my P4 1.7GHz using the same movie and settings.

[mikk]

right now i don't think any commonly available cpu is adequate for mpeg2 encoding. have any of u ever tried encoding 720x576 PAL MPEG2 (served from dvd2avi on highest quality decode) with highest motion search precision, floating point, and 1-1 noise reduction? it takes a loooong time, especially when u use vbr. but the quality is so excellent. it's better than a lot of commercial dvds i've seen.

can u try this and tell me how fast it goes on your pc?

[FusionMafia]

I tried one minute test clip with VBR 4000kbs and noise reduction and all the settings in max quality. TMPGenc showed 6 hours left so encoding whole 45 minute episode would have taken 200+ hours..

[mickboss]

ADVISE: Use CINEMACRAFT!!! (CCE)

I own a K7 Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1800+, 256 PC133, 2 Maxtor 7200 rpm HDDs

2 Hour movie, VBR, 2-Pass, Máx. Settings + sound -> 3 hours top!

- TMPGenc offers better definition and color but more macroblocks and MUCH slower than CCE!

- CCE offers VERY fast compression, EXCELENT with motion, very good image quality.

PS: compress sound with another program (don´t use CCE)
PSS: compress video with CCE, sound with TMPGenc and then multiplex with bbmpeg 8)

[mikk]

um, i don't think it takes 6hrs per minute, it's more like under an hour per minute on my old PII 350@392 with 384mb sdram with a sloooooowwww hard drive.

i think the time estimation is a very inaccurate for the 1st few minutes of encoding.

but it still takes 5-6 days to encode a whole movie....

cinemacraft won't work on my stinky old cpu because SSE is required.

it would be interesting to see the quality difference between encoders. i suppose i could try it on some pIIIs or p4s i have access to.

[Mirror_Image]

A little less than $200 will get you an "Athlon XP1800+" and motherboard combo.

[FusionMafia]

I will try the CCE today. Last night I encoded 1 hour 30 minutes survivor episode captured from VHS and it took 12 hours to encode. Without noise reduction and other extras.

What is the problem encoding audio in CCE? Now I use mpeg2 audio 384kbs and it's ok, at least with VHS captured stuff. I first export the sound from premier and do the noise reduction and normalize it in Cool Edit to make it clearer.