how long should it take to convert?

[sunfire231]

Hello
I was hoping someone could help me. I have been trying to convert an avi to svcd through dvd2svcd. I started this last night at 10:00 and it is now 1:00 in the afternnon and the TMPGE shows I have 40 hours left! Does it usually take this long or did I do something wrong? the movie is only 83 minutes long. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks :o

[impmon2]

How long it takes to convert depends on many things. #1 do you have any other applications or background task running? Some like th eantivirus can be disabled.

#2 what is your computer specs? Mine is a 1.4GHz P4 and an 83 minute AVI would take me almost 2 hours to convert to SVCD standard MPG2

[Stelios]

Hi impmon2

What setting do you put for on the Rate Control Mode in the Encode field (TMPGenc). I use CQ rate and it takes me about 6 hours on a PIII 1GHz. If I use VBR rate will it take longer?

Regards
Stelios

[impmon2]

I just loaded the SuperVCD standard (it should have come with your copy of TMPGEnc). I checked the Rate Control Mode, it is set for CBR, 2520 kbit/sec.

[sunfire231]

Thanks impmon2,

I have checked the CBR rate, it's fine. I have a 800Mhz, maybe that's the problem. I am going to try again and turn off anything that could be running in the background. I'll let you know how I make out.
Thanks again!

[impmon2]

800- yikes! I used to have an AMD K6-2 500 up until last fall before getting the 1.4GHz P4. Took me about half a day to encode a 30 minutes show.

[sumibas]

i have a P4 1.3 GHZ 512MB RDRAM / Pioneer DVD / sony CDRW.
it takes me about the time of the lenght of the movie to convert it to VCD using DVDX and CCE 2.5 SP Plugin.

[Calimalim]

The best thing to do is go to your garage

Look around real hard, now make sure you squint to cuz more than likely it's late and you didn't want ya girl thinking you were crazy.

Put your hands out...DON"T TURN ON THE LIGHT! Keep looking...

Your gonna see a nice shiny, polished up, solid iron baseball bat.

You're gonna put this bat in your hands. Both of em, if you closed the door behind ya you're gonna have to bust through, **** trying to be quiet.

NOW RUN.. YES RUN.. GO to that room where that piece of crap computer sits in and then you're gonna stop!

SLowly creep up inch by inch and then. . . BEAT THE COMPUTER! BEAT IT DOWN ! BEAT IT BEAT IT BEAT IT

Hope it works out for ya man

[impmon2]

LOL! I should have thought of that when I decided to dump (literally) my k6-2 500.

[xaanin]

DVD2SVCD with CCE, 4 pass VBR takes me about 6 hours per 40 minutes of video, on a 900 T-bird.