TMPGenc performance question

[dramos]

I using TMPGenc for the first time. I am attempting to convert an 82 meg AVI to VCD mpeg1. It has been running for over 24 hours and is only %50 done. Is this normal? My computer is a 500 mghz pentium 3 with 128 megs of Ram.

Watching the system monitor shows that the CPU utilization is only 15-20% so it doesnt seem that my processor is a bottleneck. I did noticed that my swap file is quite large so I am considering double the memory to 256. Will that make a significant improvement in performance?

[MaDmiZe]

That is pretty slow....check my system...most my movies 3-6 gigs (d2v and vob) take 12 to 14 hours to convert to mpeg1.... a 150mb avi takes 5+/- hours..
Check TMPG under options ...task priority...see if the"when not active" is set to normal...my guess is yours is set to idle time only....which a cpu of our size has little of...change to normal...see if that helps.

[Barnabas]

That does seem rather slow. On my machine: Athlon 750 mhz, Windows XP Home, 256 megs of ram, It takes about 8 1/2 to 9 hours to convert a 96 minute avi to VCD with the quality set to highest. You can speed things up a bit by enabling the multi-processor mode and the 3 boxes under that.

[drewson99]

It seems to me the problem may be with your ram, although I wouldn't even try encoding video without at least 1GHz, I used to use a PIII 550 and it took full days to do stuff, then I got the Athlon 1800+ and I can do a movie in 5-6 hours.

Andy

[Mxjshaf69]

That seems slow I also used to have a p3 500 mhz with 128 mb of ram, and it took me about 4-6 hours per half of movie on cbr.

[dramos]

Well I think it was user error on my part. When I first tried I selected a few settings. Apparently some of them were very time consuming. I wasn't aware of templates. I tried it on the same file using the template settings and it only took a couple of hours. I noticed that when I was running the app and it was taking forever it was I had selected the inverse telecine setting. That was the only thing I saw different in my selections so maybe it was the culprit.

[Barnabas]

Inverse telecine will indeed make encoding take much longer, and should only be used movies from film. Noise reduction will also take MUCH longer than it's usually worth. Glad you got it working faster.