Fastest encoder?

[Twizzle]

I am using Windows XP on an AMD athlon 1.33 running at 1.47Ghz and 520 mb ram.
I am wondering what the fastest software available is for encoding to VCD or SVCD. I have been using TMPGEnc and it is usually taking real time to encode at the moment from avi to mpeg (1 hour film = 1 hour encoding), but I would like something faster!

So if money is no object, other than upgrading my system, whats the best program(s) out there?

(Oh and the reason I told you about my system is becasue I figured maybe some software is optimised for AMDs)

[adam]

Cinema craft encoder is by far the fastest mpeg encoder. My system is fairly comparable to yours and cce is more than twice as fast as TMPGenc. I get close to double time (2 hrs takes 1 hr to encode) per pass when encoding svcds and well over that when doing vcds, though I never do vcds anymore.

Quality-wise cce is inferior to TMPGenc at encoding mpeg1 (vcds) slightly superior at mpeg2 at low to high bitrates (svcds) and significantly higher quality at highest bitrates (dvds.)

If you really want cce than money better not be an object for you because it is quite expensive, several thousand dollars.

[Twizzle]

Thanks

I downloaded the trial version of CCE but it is very picky about what it will encode as far as I can see. I have a load of avi clips that TMPG will happily encode for me but CCE just wont open.

I am probably doing something stupid so feel free to correct me if i am

[adam]

Well your right cce is very picky.

What is the nature of these avi clips? Are they divx files? If so load them in virtual dub and goto file/save as old format avi.

Cce should be able to handle this avi directly now.

Cce is purely and encoder, it does not natively support features such as resizing, cropping, or inverse telecining that you may be used to using in TMPGenc. You should install avisynth and frameserve to cce. You also may wish to use DVD2SVCD, it automates much of the encoding process.