Frameserving speed

[lemmy999]

I inverse telecine, temporal smooth and smart smooth in Vdub and save to multisegment AVI, then I open up the AVI segments and frameserve to TMPGEnc. This works fine, except that it takes 3 hours for 12 minutes of video (SVCD 480x480, 2pass VBR) on a 1.2GHz Athlon w/ 256MB DDR Ram. I was wondering if there are other methods of getting large files in to TMPGEnc that are faster. I am trying VFAPI but I can only get it to read the first segment, which does me no good, I could just do that by loading the first file segment in TMPGEnc and forgetting about VFAPI...Do I need to save a .tpr file in TMPGEnc for each file segment, then add all of these jobs in VFAPI?

[menaz]

Im wondering if you could frameserve while you are applying the filters, instead of having to save the segments. Im not sure if that would even save you anytime.

[lemmy999]

The filtering is being done while I am at work, so if I could filter while frameserving, that would be very nice because the encoding & filtering would be done when I got home. However, I am performing inverse telecine & temporal smoother which can't be used while frameserving. I guess the best option would be to inverse telecine and filter in TMPGEnc, but I am more familiar with what it takes to get good results in Vdub.