Is this normal encodeing speed ?

[LiNUXG33K]

Hi -

I am just wondering if this sounds normal and if there is any way to speed this up at all. I am captureing with Dazzle DVC II and their software. I edit the cap with TMPGEnc then re-encode with TMPGEnc and CBR. The re-encodeing takes about 12 hours with CBR, which is ok ... but ... I would like to use 2-pass VBR, except that it takes up to 24 hours to re-encode my 30 minute clip !!!

Thank you for your help/time

LG

My Specs:
MB: SOYO FireDragon
CPU: P4 NorthBridge 512K Cache 1.8 GHz
MEMORY: DDR 266 SDRAM 768MB PC2100 (Corsair)
VIDEO: Nvida GeForce2 GTS w/ 32MB SGRAM
IDE: UDMA Mode 5 ATA-100 7500rpm 80 Gig.
OS: WinXP PRO

[tenders]

encodeing does take a long time. i'm just finishing a move that took 32 hours

[jwhitlow]

LiNUXG33K, your time seems a little excessive. What format are you capturing to and at what bitrate?

I have done many MPEG-1 captures at 7.5mbps and encoding to VCD using 2mbps 2-pass VBR. It usually took about 10 hours.
This week I did an AVI capture at 480x480, edited in VirtualDub and frame served to TMPGEnc encoding to SVCD using 2-pass VBR.

All of the above is using highest motion precision and the video length is 40-43 minutes (a 1hr show with the commercials removed).

[LiNUXG33K]

Hello -

Well, I capture to either SVCD or DVD-MPEG2. The DVD-MPEG2 is captured with VBR at 8.0 MBs and if I use SVCD it uses 2.4 MBs.

What I am trying to do is, move my VHS collection to CD's (that can play on my home DVD player) I also capture some Digital video from Sattelite.

I want to be able to have the best cap's I can without out taking over 14+ hours.

Thanks for any insight/tips

LG

[quote="jwhitlow"]LiNUXG33K, your time seems a little excessive. What format are you capturing to and at what bitrate?

[offline]

Try frame serving with avisynth to tmpeg or cce. Reduce the color and resize on the fly.

[devinemi83]

Yeah re encoding takes a long time and patience. For me, without ANY filters in TMPG, in my 500MHz celeron, it will take 8 hours per 2 hour movie.

[LiNUXG33K]

Mmmm well 8 hours for a 2 hour movie isnt bad. Why does it
take 23 hours for me to encode a 30 minute clip ???

Using-> TMPGEnc SVCD/NTSC 2-pass VBR on a 30 minute clip
Captured at -> SVCD 480x480 8.0Mbs VBR


Help !

LG

[devinemi83]

My guess, I used VCD standard settings. No filters, no resize, constant bitrate, one pass. Using VBR from what I understand increases time needed because it has to analyze the video to find out what areas need more data or less, than it does it all over again.