dvd2avi-cce-avs, 2 pass, 3 pass- How long approx?

[El_Mero_Zooter]

Got my dvd2avi project file (forced film, ntsc, rgb, credits cut off, 1h58min movie, 16x9) cued up fserve it to cce-avs (avisource to my vfapi avi,resizing to 480x360, addborder 0, 60, 0, 60), cce 2.50, doing a 3 pass im getting about 18 hours to 21 hours encoding to svcd, 480x480, aspect ratio seems fine, not squeezed not almost full screen like dvd2avi shows, video only. Doing a 2 pass, its clockin' at around 12 hours.

Are these times on par more or less? I know its roughly about 2-3 hours per hour of film. Just trying to figure out if my cpu is being taxed too much or if its my setup thats wrong somewhere?

If i converted the dvd2avi project file to rgb, the video coloruz seem more vivid against leaving it yuy2. But, the cce 2.50 encode file seems to revert back to a yuy2 brighter video. Does cce convert well the rgb data or does it keep it in yuy2 format for the speed advantage?

Also, my conversionz of the audio, using toolame, are crashing and giving me errors such as, not enuff data, filling up with zeros, or crashing after creating temp wav filez?

t.i.a.

Zooter

[sunmiztres]

Using the same filters you are using my pc usually takes about 9 hours to do a 2 pass vbr. I have never done a 3 pass because i am happy with the 2.

I am also having the same problems you are having with toolame. It seems like when i finally get one error to stop another one takes it's place. Right now i am having a problem with it crashing after making the temp file.

[El_Mero_Zooter]

sunm,
the weird thing about toolame is that the very first time i cued it up with tmpenc it worked fine, gave me an mp2 file roughly 107mb and with the audio for the whole movie.
Then i started playing with the settings and trying to lower the bitrate and thats when it went buggy.
I've only tried tmpgenc 12, and 12a though.
It may only work with the default svcd audio, 224 or something.

9 hours huh? umm, k , something is up with my cpu or project file..
thanx bro.

zTr

[sunmiztres]

Yes same thing here...when i first used toolame it worked great for a few movies but then it just started giving me errors. I am thinking there is a conflict with another program but i have no idea which one. I have succesfully used tmpgenc 12, 12a, and 12h with toolame but now all 3 are giving me errors. Maybe i shall try 12i.

[El_Mero_Zooter]

dude, this is buggin..
gotta figure it out...
gonna redownload it and see if that works

[VidGuy]

Toolame seems to crash on some of the WAV files that DVD2AVI makes - I haven't had any flakiness with it and it's reproducible between different versions of Toolame - It either likes a WAV file or crashes while encoding it.

I've even invoked Toolame by hand and it always crashes in the same place if it's going to crash.

I do 3-pass CCE using DVD2AVI and AVISYnth/MPeg2Dec, and it takes about 8 hours total to do the vaf pass and the 3 passes.

El_Mero- there's not a lot of payback for cutting the credits off - they don't take much bandwidth up in the final product. That's one reason I always encode all at once then cut with BBMPeg, so that the bandwidth that's unused by the credits gets amortized over the whole movie, but I like having the credits available.

You will find that if you use FitCD (in the tool section), and work on keeping the black borders on 16-pixel boundaries, AND you mask the left and right 16-pixels (either mask them or rescale the video so they're not part of it) you'll get better quality. Your TV can't see the left or right 16-pixels anyway (nor the top or bottom 16, for that matter - but normally with widescreen movies, that's not an issue).

[El_Mero_Zooter]

vid,
thanx, ill work on 16-pix.
i was getting around 7 to hours, before, doing the vaf and 3 pass, so im trying to figure out why now its taking longer, if its my script or the cpu, been workin it like mad for da past three weekz.
I aiming for the quality of the 3000MTG.Land that was on the pipe over the weekend.

That's what it is why toolame. hmm. interesting. come to think of it it is a diff wav file i did with dvd2avi.

thanx again for your input.
will keep an eye out fo mo of ur work...

ztr