how long does it take to convert

[disney]

hi, i am using tmpge, how long does it take to convert a movie , i have in settings used very fast and then start, and the program shows that it takes about 20 hours to finnisch it. anyone?

[taximan408]

I`m new at this too , and right now I am ripping Thirteen Ghosts off the dvd to convert to vcd, using TMPGE,all this to be able to put on cd`s for home dvd use. Anyway the total time of conversion from the tmpge program was around 18 hours and I still have to burn after that. Don`t know of any way to speed up , if you do let me know. I will do same.

[fantomlord]

hi, i am using tmpge, how long does it take to convert a movie , i have in settings used very fast and then start, and the program shows that it takes about 20 hours to finnisch it. anyone?

how long it takes depends on a number of different things...
what kind of system do you have, are you frameserving...
I've got PIII 800, 256MB SDRAM, and full movies will take anywhere from 12-16 hours depending on whether or not I frameserve the movie to TMPG.

[taximan408]

I forgot to list computer specs, 733 with 640 megs of ram and it still is slow , is there a better way , or should I say quicker. I dont want to ruin the video quality so in tmpge i use slow conversion to achieve the quality, any other ideas

[fantomlord]

I forgot to list computer specs, 733 with 640 megs of ram and it still is slow , is there a better way , or should I say quicker. I dont want to ruin the video quality so in tmpge i use slow conversion to achieve the quality, any other ideas

unfortunately, TMPG is pretty much going to be that slow, CCE is much faster(it's a lot more picky though)---but very expensive. I guess you get what you pay for in terms of encode speed.
just set up TMPG before you go to sleep, and let it work overnight.

[samo21]

For a two hour movie it only takes me 3-4 hours...

[sumibas]

you can use DVDX and CCE. on my P4 1.3 it takes about 1.24 times real. it 2 hours move takes me about 1 hr 40 min for encoding. so riping 15 min and cut and burn about 45 min on the whole to do a 2 hr movie it takes about 2.45 min to get it as VCD

[emtownsend]

Using:
Athlon XP 1800+
Windows XP Pro
512MB DDR RAM
ATA100 HDD
16X Pioneer DVD-ROM A106

It takes about 15 minutes to rip, and about 4 hours or less for the rest.
-Eric

[speedy726]

you guy shouldn't complain about 18 hours, that's a walk in the park compared to the 33 hours it takes me on my Pentium II 266. Looks like I am in dire need of an upgrade. :cry:

[SHARKuk]

Takes me around 15-20 mins to rip the dvd .. about 7-10 mins the audio then around 2-2.30 hrs to rip the final ... but it took around 9 hrs for braveheart and pearl harbor .. but they are big films .. either that or my pc had had enough

[Wonderin]

XP1700+
256 DDR Ram
ATA100 Hdd

Doen to VCD using TMPGEnc 2.51 Plus template

PAL

90 Minute movie ie:Spy Kids

* 6 Mintes to RIP - Smart Ripper
* 5:27 DVD2AVI Leaving audio at 48k - converting to 44.1 slows almost to realtime in Ultrahigh quality
* 1:57:04 to encode - TMPGEnc 2.5

Bewdyful Output...looks almost DVD on a 70cm Tellie - no noticable blocks or artifacting

[andy73]

have you checked in tmpge if you're using any filters ? this is done by clicking on the SETTING button then the ADVANCED tab. i found that when i attempted to use the NOISE REDUCTION filter the total time taken to encode it jumped from what i was use to (3-4 hrs) to about 18-20 hours...therefore I do not use any filters bc it just takes too long !!

cheers..

[kenminator]

I am new to this too. I am curious if anyone experimented with multi-cpu machine? Can you add CPU and half the conversion time? I guess it might have to depend on the software and OS itself. I happened to have a quad Ppro server, wondering if it's any good.

[taximan408]

Has anybody tried to rip the Matrix. Is it me or are there 5? different files to start with . And when i rip the first time ot convert to vcd one or more of the vob files is part of the documentary. Do i hve to do all five versions and take the seperate vob files to make one file to be able to make the vcd.

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[gonz0]

Here's are some results comparing encoding time with dual and single processor computers.

Source: 5 minute segment of a DVD (video and audio from DVD2AVI w/ forced film on) encoded with TMPGEnc 2.53.35.130 using the default NTSC Film template.

Computer specs:
1. Dual Pentium III 866MHz processor, 768Mb RAM - Win2k
2. Single Pentium III 1200 MHz processor, 512Mb RAM - Win2k

Test 1: Dual Pentium 866 in "Single processor mode" (no Multi-Threading options set)
encoding time: 12min 14sec

Test 2: Dual Pentium 866 - with Multi-threading options turned on in Environmental Settings. I also enabled "pipeline" and "pipeline for motion search"
encoding time: 9min 45sec

Test 3: Single Pentium 1200MHz
encoding time: 3min 29sec!!!

So I guess the conclusion is that a faster CPU is much better than a slower second CPU.

[nemethmik]

To samo21, sumibas, emtownsend:
What MPEG encoder do you use?
If it's Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE) did you really pay $2000 (the price of 100 hollywood DVD movie) for it?
Does it work for you on Windows XP?

Intel CPU's are slow for multimedia. Here's a post from a Mac forum:
"Just for the record, to convert a 10 minute DV clip to MPEG2 using QT 5 player (or Premier 5.1c) takes 19 minutes on my G4/733. On my new dual 1 gig, it takes 6 minutes!!!!!"
In this perspective it isn't reasonable to buy CCE for $2000.
For that money you can buy a 800MHz G4 iMac with a DVD burner
http://www.apple.com/imac/

[falconx]

ok a month ago on my old system it takes 25hours with all filters on to convert 1 hours of 352x576 5000kbps to vcd format on P3 1Ghz with 384MB of sdram running on asus cusl2-c M/B .......... but now...

8) with the new system Intel M/B D850MV with P4 2Ghz 512 cache and 512 Rdram PC800 the time decreased to 11 hours ...

[AUGUSTIUS_1]

AMD XP1800+
512 DDR Ram
ATA100 Hdd
win-98 second edit
to make an SVCD using DVD2SVCD
an 2 hour movie 6-7 hours incl. subtitles (pal)
Ntsc. 5-6 hours

[emtownsend]

XP1800+
512 DDR
ATA100
Windows XP Pro

Just wanted to add:
ReMPEG2 (recompress) for Moulin Rouge disc 1 (2:07:41) took 18 hours.
Now, what do I do with the .M2V file and the .WAV file??
-Eric

[Lextorite]

If you really wanna speed up, use LSX Mpg encoder but I warn you, the quality is crap.

[movienut2002]

If you're going to do alot of encoding, a fast dual machine is well worth your investment. You can overclock some of the dual mboards if you care to. I have two dual xp1700 systems and each encode to vcd in about 82% of real movie time. I'm waiting for the 2200's to go down in price :) . Tmpgenc can use dual processors, but it doesn't necessarily cut the time in half. My understanding is that CCE does not take advantage of dual processor availabilty so if you use CCE duallies wouldn't help unless you're going to do other things while encoding.

Want more info on duallies check out www.2cpu.com - do your homework before building a dual amd - many issues are out there.

:lol:

[TomGR]

Another thought for you who get long hours. Have u checked that your HD isnt slave to a dvd or cdrw? Because if it is bye bye ATA100.