What can I do to speed up my encoding speed?

[puertorican138]

What can I do to speed up my encoding speed?

[vcd4me]

faster processor or less filters

Hope this helps
VCD4ME

[holistic]

Yup what vcd4me said ... faster CPU ... maybe more RAM

and only POSTING ONCE helps .

[puertorican138]

Where can I buy extra RAM, holistic? Would buying FlashMemory and Memory Sticks help? Can you tell me all the hardware (memory, etc.) that I would need to buy in order to make my encoding speed much faster?

Thanks holistic and vcd4me!!!

[holistic]

Would buying FlashMemory and Memory Sticks help? Can you tell me all the hardware (memory, etc.) that I would need to buy in order to make my encoding speed much faster?

You are joking right ?! I was almost ready to say buy 128Mb Flash Memory and get you to load it through your CD rom drive but i will give you a freebee.

The following info is required : Motherboard manufacturer / model

From that i can tell what type of memory you will require : EDO, PC100, PC133, DDR, Rambus ......

[vince]

Get the Tmpgenc 2.54a and enable "Saving result from first pass" under Env. setting--CPU (If you are using Tmpgenc and doing 2-pass VBR). It will be 30% faster.

[jtoops]

Hate to say this, but the rest of the people are right. The faster the cpu, the faster the encoding times.

John

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=93901&highlight=

[puertorican138]

Motherboard: Intel(R) Celeron Processor
Model: Intel(R) 810
Windows Version: Windows 98 Second Edition

[MOVIEGEEK]

Pentium Celerons are not good for video get a P4 or Athlon XP.

[Kdiddy]

get your PC hooked on crack or crystal meth.

[holistic]

The 810 chipset takes either PC66 or PC100 SDRAM

Goodluck finding these at a good price. Suggest 256Mb of PC133 (it will only run at 100 though - or whatever your board supports)

The is the option to overclock but i doubt you will have any success with a $ihtty generic board.

CELERONS ARE OK for video if you are patient and don't expect instant encodes.

Ideally a dual CPU setup is optimal, but for a hobby, lets be reallistic here a celeron will do the job.

[fmctm1sw]

The 810 chipset takes either PC66 or PC100 SDRAM

Goodluck finding these at a good price. Suggest 256Mb of PC133 (it will only run at 100 though - or whatever your board supports)

The is the option to overclock but i doubt you will have any success with a $ihtty generic board.

CELERONS ARE OK for video if you are patient and don't expect instant encodes.

Ideally a dual CPU setup is optimal, but for a hobby, lets be reallistic here a celeron will do the job.

For what it's worth Puertorican, I have an intel 810 chipset too. It's actually an 810e that can (allegedly) run at 133 MHZ FSB. Trying this will have DISASTEROUS effects though. If anyone has done this, let me know. Mine is running well at 100MHZ but I had to disable the L2 cache. It's faster this way. As far as captures go, just try with what you have dude. There's folks here that report caps with no frame drops with "SLOW" computers like ours. Just remember, it may take you forever to convertn though.

[puertorican138]

Yeah, it does take a long time to convert. It took me 24 hours and 13 minutes just to convert a 70 minute movie!!!

[fmctm1sw]

Yeah, it does take a long time to convert. It took me 24 hours and 13 minutes just to convert a 70 minute movie!!!

Wow, did you overclock your motherboard? Do you have any trouble capturing with the integrated audio and video? I am very interested in hearing other folks using i810 to cap.

[puertorican138]

Good thing you have an Intel 810!!! What does overclocking your motherboard mean? I don't have a capture card.

[wingfan]

Motherboard: Intel(R) Celeron Processor
Model: Intel(R) 810
Windows Version: Windows 98 Second Edition

What is the speed of your processor? This is very important. BUT reading that it takes 24 hrs to encode a movie means you got something less then a 500 .. cause I had a P3 500 with 256 MB RAM and it took 14 hrs. My solution was buy a new CPU (processor and motherboard) .. now I have an Athlon 1800 XP and it takes me 45 min or so.. huge difference. Hope this makes sense to you.

[puertorican138]

Thanks man.

[drewson99]

45 min???!!??

I have an XP 1800, 1GB DDR RAM, 7200 RPM drive, and it takes me 7 hours to encode a regular movie at the highest motion search quality.

Is there something wrong here?

Andy

[vhelp]

Hello all,

Yeah, he didn't say:
* length of movie he was basing that on
* what resolution he encoded to ie, 352x240, 480x480, etc.
* used any filters, etc.
* anything else I left off, just add to this list

my guess, is he was talking about makde standard VCDs not SVCDs.
I have an XP 1700 and XP 1800, but Never got that on ANY kind of
encode, be it 60min to 90 minutes!

So, take those statements w/ a grain of sand

-vhelp

[drewson99]

thanks, here I was remembering all the late nights thinking I had a setting wrong.

Andy

[wingfan]

Sorry I wasnt more specific ..

Im encoding a 1hr:20 min avi movie to mpg format at a 352x240 resolution standard VCD. It takes me 45 min to 1hr to do this.. I dont use any filters or anything cause I dont know how, thats why Im here in the Newbie Conversion forum

[drewson99]

yeah, when I do an MPEG-2 720x480 2 hours long CBR, it takes between 7-12 hours at the highest motion quality.

Andy

[vhelp]

Ah, now we're talking straight, he, he...

Thanks for clearing that up for the others here, wingfan.

I'll have to post my encoding times too, when I get things straighten
out w/ my VCR. I'm in the middle of figuring out an issue at the moment,
and I don't want to start, unless I have to.

anyways, for what't it's worth, in reference to the originator of this thread,
my encoding speeds for an 1 hour capture of Star Trek Voyager on my
old 900Mhz T-Brd was:
* 352x480 xSVCD
* minus commercials via vdub
* minor filtering (sharp/deinterlace w/ blend)
* 29fps
* encoding multi segmented clips (used as chapters)
* 3 hours or less.

As far as increasing encoding times, that all depends on your source and
what your goal is, in quality:
* don't use any filtering, but if you must, use defaults, and not high values.
* minimise the use of too many frameserving mechanism's, ie, using
AVS scrips, and feeding it into vdub, then feedng into tmpg
* try your hand at CQ vs. 2pass, and save 1/2 the encoding right their.

Good luck.
-vhelp

Motherboard - FIC VA503+
CPU - AMD K6-2 500mhz
Memory - 320 meg
HD #1 - Westerndigital 7200rpm 40gig
HD #2 - Westerndigital 5400rpm 6.4gig

Encoding times: 1 hour 40 minute movie = 7.5 hours.
Template - Standard VCD 352x240 TMPGEnc.

HOWEVER:
While using one of Kwags templates, I believe it was the 704x480
1CD template it took me 31 hours to encode. Needless to say I really
did not like that (Wear and tear on the system) so I just encode with
one of his smaller templates and change the fps to match what my
DVD player can handle, 29.97 fps. I did this to one of his templates
and it only took 6.5 hours.

Good Luck.