Conversion Time

[changohead]

I'm running a 400mhz PII with 256mb ram. I'm trying to convert an 89 minute movie in Tmpgenc. I've used kingviper's template and the generic ones. But the time of conversion is over 13 hours for sVCD. Is this right? If anyone has any helpful tips to lowering conversion time.

Also i'm trying to make an 89 minute movie into a 2 part SVCD, but when i split the movie into two the disk capacity is well over 130%. I'm sure there is a way to make this smaller, any help would be great thanks.

[changohead]

Does someone have any kind of info on this, Please any help is appreciated

[Mirror_Image]

Does someone have any kind of info on this, Please any help is appreciated

CPU encoding time is mainly dependent on 2 things:

1. CPU muscle (more is faster, less is slower - very low speed CPUs take a really long time to encode)
2. Quality settings (higher quality takes longer)

Your encode is taking roughly 13 hours to encode ~1.5 hours of video to SVCD. That's about 8x, and that might be about normal for a 400MHz CPU. If you are changing resolution from the source file (i.e. 320x240 to 480x480) that also takes exra time. If the source file is compressed (such as DivX) remember your CPU has to decompress and recompress each and every frame (or should I say decode and re-encode)..

[changohead]

all the time spent on conversion and rendering my computer unusable makes it almost not worth it. One movie I converted took about 20 hours to dvd rip, extract audio in dvd2avi, and convert in tmpgenc. and the end result was less than desirable. Instead of building myself a new supercomputer why not just buy a new dvd-rw for $350.

[dgsmith]

still have to convert with a dvd-r/w. That computer you have is going to take a LONG time to do anything with video. I bought a K7S5a, Athlon 1.7, and 256 pc2100 for under $200.00

[changohead]

what kind of converting is there with a dvd-rw? Doesn't it just copy dvds? Where did u find such a fast computer for so little?

[spagyrist]

Get used to long conversion times. I'm running an AMD 1700 XP with 256 MB RAM, and to convert a captured AVI full-length movie into M2P format for DVD authoring routinely takes more than 12 hours on my machine. I usually capture the video in the evening, then let my PC run overnight for file conversion. The next evening I spend authoring the DVD.

- Spagyrist :P