How much time does it usually take's ?

[NewToDvd]

Hi,

I'm very green behind the ears where it concern's ripping DVD's and converting and burning them to (S)VCD's and I would like to know some stuf about it :

How long does it usually take's from the beginning to the endproduct while keeping a reasonable quality (from DVD to *S*VCD that is) ?

I've tried to do it with a 1:28.xx min DVD using DVD2SVCD but aborted when "CCE" gave a time indication of more then 15 hours in the beginning of the 2nd encode proces

I'm sure i overdid it while choosing the quality-options in DVD2SVCD but before continuing my rip attempts it might be usefull to get an indication of the normal amount of time it usually takes.....

Example situation :

(1) the DVD to be ripped/converted/burned to SVCD (with dolby AC3 6 ch. in english and subtitle's in one language included) has a length of 1.28.xx min's and is originally 16:9 (wanna keep it like that on the SVCD)

(2) I wanna watch the SVCD on my PAL television via TV-out from the computer

(3) My system spec's are :

Asus CUSL2-C Motherboard
PIII 1Ghz
447 MB Ram
Pioneer DVD-116 (DMA enabled)
Plextor 12/10/32a
Gforce 2 GTS
Soundblaster live
Maxtor 20 GB 7200 rpm (Master, DMA enabled)
Western Digital 20 GB 5400 rpm (Slave, DMA enabled, used for the conversion)
Windows ME (Swap-file set to 500 MB max)

I hope someone can give me some indication.

Regards

Ray

[NewToDvd]

Figured it out so no reply is necessary, 4 hours is what it take's to get a well enough quality on my system (PAL-tv).

8)

[offline]

As a fellow PAL user myself I'd be interested in what
settings you used and your idea of end result quality?

Right now I'm using quality 3 , multipass of 4
for CCE (or dvd2svcd) with a max 2 disc allowance
up to 90 minutes (= low bitrate) 128 audio (48hkz)
temporal smoother at default.

(7/10 my quality rating compared with DVD) 10 hours encode

For tmpgenc I use CQ 90, Audio 192 (41Hkz), no half pal motion
search and a search setting of high (very high for NTSC conversions)
with a max 4 disc allowance. spatial smoother via avisynth

(9/10 my quality rating compared with DVD) 15 hours encode


System
o/c Celeron tulatin 1.0Gz to 1.4Gz
256 147 Mhz SDRAM
7200 hdd

[NewToDvd]

Well, i'll be happy to tell ya but am a little at work now so i hope to fill you in at some later hour (don't expect to much out of me plz, very newbie on the subject........)

The only thing i can tell ya right now is that compared to DVD the quality was like 6/10 or near, looks like a good quality VHS on PAL-tv but kinda crappy on a pc-monitor (sawtooth effect).

It was VCD encoded, SVCD take's double the amount of time on my sytem, but the result was quite nice. SVCD was also tested (tested and compared it to VCD-encoding-time using a single chapter) and the end result was really fabulous, came very close to DVD quality, like 9/10 of it, (easy guess on what's the next thing to do at home...... )

Hope to get back on this, if you like i could post a little report afterwards (software used and stuff).

Regards

[NewToDvd]

Well, i ripped a 100 min video and encoded it to Mpeg2, took a bit longer then what i expected...... While encoding to a reasonable quality Mpeg1 took only 4 hours (90 min's of video) encoding 100 min's to Mpeg2 took 13 hours, strange thing was that with a little piece (only one chapter) ,encoding it to Mpeg2 took only double the time opposed to encoding the piece to Mpeg1

Sorry "offline"......

Regards