quality vs time

[strontium_99]

Sorry for this real newbie question.

What I'm after is a bit of guidance. I'm looking for a sort of happy medium if you like.
What's the best route for ripping a DVD > VCD balancing time against quality?

I've tried using DVDx which is ok, but the rip quality is not that great.
I've also tried SmartRipper > DVD2AVI > TMPGEnc, which seems to give a good quality rip, but took twice as long as the movie length to encode.

Is that just the way it goes?
Is there a better route?

Sorry again for this quite lame question, but thanks in advance for any feedback.

Cheers group.

Strontium_99

[NeWcS]

Whats are your systen specs??

What one person thinks is a long time someone else might think its not. If it takes me 10 to 12hrs to rip a DVD and encode it with 2-pass im happy.

So I guess the question is.......what do you consider a long time?

[strontium_99]

Arrrrr Now I really do feel like a newbie.

It took about 4.5hours using TMPGEnc. So I guess that's not too bad.

My system is a 1.4GHz P4 with a gig of memory using WindowsXP and a NEC DVD drive.

So what you are saying to me is shut up and get on with it..!!!!

Strontium_99

[themamboman]

Whats are your systen specs??

What one person thinks is a long time someone else might think its not. If it takes me 10 to 12hrs to rip a DVD and encode it with 2-pass im happy.

So I guess the question is.......what do you consider a long time?

Actually, he asked about VCD, not SVCD. VCD is constant bitrate. No multipass involved.

[mikewg]

Something's wrong, it shouldn't take you that long.

I have an Athlon 900, and here's what I do from DVD -> VCD.

First, I capture the DVD movie. No I don't rip it. I capture it through my capture card. The capture comes out practically the same and saves a ton of time. The capture is only as long as the movie is.

Then I use TMPGEnc to convert that to VCD. Using my 900Mhz, the conversion time is about 1.5 times the length of the movie. So a 1 1/2 hour movie shouldn't take you more than 2.5 hours to convert. Especially if you're running a computer that is faster than mine. What settings are you using in TMPGEnc? Are you using highest quality processing? If so, set it down to High quality. Less time, pretty much same output.

I'm not looking for flames, these are my suggestions on saving time.

[strontium_99]

Dudes,

No need to get uptight about the subject.
It was DVD 2 VCD I was after.

Cheers,

Strontium_99 8)

[sumibas]

hi,

i have a P4 1.3 GHZ 512MB RDRAM(800 MHZ). i use DVDX and CCE2.5 sp Plugin. my timings are for a 2hrs 20 min movie 15 for ripping + 2hrs 45 min for converting to VCD. so 3 hr for a 2hrs 20 min movie. i thing this is the best you can get and the quality i better than tempengc. in my view

[FunkyP]

Something's wrong, it shouldn't take you that long.

I have an Athlon 900, and here's what I do from DVD -> VCD.

First, I capture the DVD movie. No I don't rip it. I capture it through my capture card. The capture comes out practically the same and saves a ton of time. The capture is only as long as the movie is.

SO,

I was always playing with the thought of capturing the dvd movie myself instead of ripping etc. But I wonder, what card are you using for that job?
tried to do some realtime capturing with powervcr and my simple hauppauge wintv go but the result wasn't satisfactory.