avi to mpeg conversion time

[umps]

is it normal for a 407mb aiff.avi video file to take 50 hrs to encode with tmpgenc or nero? a simple yes or no would be fine. unless its no, then maybe someone could tell me if it is just because of my pc specs. thanks

[VaguelyWeird]

No, it isn't. Being fairly new myself, I also had that problem. It seems there is a bug in the new tmpgenc: If you use the Source Range option, for some reason, the program takes *forever* to encode. Use VirtualDub to clip the movie to your selected range, and then use tmpgenc to encode the "full" clip. I've checked the tmpgenc forum too, and no one seems to address this problem. Hope that helps.

[umps]

No, it isn't. Being fairly new myself, I also had that problem. It seems there is a bug in the new tmpgenc: If you use the Source Range option, for some reason, the program takes *forever* to encode. Use VirtualDub to clip the movie to your selected range, and then use tmpgenc to encode the "full" clip. I've checked the tmpgenc forum too, and no one seems to address this problem. Hope that helps.

thanks for at least clarifying that it is a problem. but,
i don't know what you mean by 'virtualdub'.

[VaguelyWeird]

Its an excellent clip editing program.

[KingJohn]

is it normal for a 407mb aiff.avi video file to take 50 hrs to encode with tmpgenc or nero? a simple yes or no would be fine. unless its no, then maybe someone could tell me if it is just because of my pc specs. thanks

You have not filled in your CPU in your computer details, 50 hours on a 386 whould be just fine

No, it isn't. Being fairly new myself, I also had that problem. It seems there is a bug in the new tmpgenc: If you use the Source Range option, for some reason, the program takes *forever* to encode. Use VirtualDub to clip the movie to your selected range, and then use tmpgenc to encode the "full" clip. I've checked the tmpgenc forum too, and no one seems to address this problem. Hope that helps.

Probably because there is no bug

If there are any junk frames in your AVI, with not many keyframes, you could end the convention in a loop, use option > preview option > display with thinning. This will show if the movie has finished converting.

Use a standard VCD template, using other settings like colour adjustment, will add to the conversion time.

[umps]

is it normal for a 407mb aiff.avi video file to take 50 hrs to encode with tmpgenc or nero? a simple yes or no would be fine. unless its no, then maybe someone could tell me if it is just because of my pc specs. thanks

someone told me that i might not have the right codecs installed. how do i know which ones i have and need?

[VaguelyWeird]

If there are any junk frames in your AVI, with not many keyframes, you could end the convention in a loop, use option > preview option > display with thinning. This will show if the movie has finished converting.

Use a standard VCD template, using other settings like colour adjustment, will add to the conversion time.

Consider: I start encoding from 360 frames into the movie and, what? It's going slow as heck. Estimated encryption time? 124+ hours. Something is wrong. Then, I encrypt from the beginning, and what? 3 hours. Now, I didn't search and clip bad frames. I didn't "repair" the avi. I didn't do anything else except not use the source range feature. Satisfied?[/i]

[KingJohn]

someone told me that i might not have the right codecs installed. how do i know which ones i have and need?

If you install the Nimo codec pack, and DivX 5.01 you will have all the popular ones.

http://nimo.everwicked.com/ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/nimo/

http://www.divx.com (Or kazza)

aiff.avi ?

Exactly what is your source, I can see you have updated your computer details to match my CPU ? an Intel 1.6 should take 80 min or so, with a DivX AVI at that size

[umps]

king john - my source is pulp fiction divx dvd rip high resol.avi. my pc shows that i have divx 5.0.2 bundle and huffyuv avi lossless video codec. should i still get divx 5.01 and dimo codec pack? and, once those are installed, how do i use them? or are they just incorporated in the conversion process? thank you

[umps]

king john - my source is pulp fiction divx dvd rip high resol.avi. my pc shows that i have divx 5.0.2 bundle and huffyuv avi lossless video codec. should i still get divx 5.01 and dimo codec pack? and, once those are installed, how do i use them? or are they just incorporated in the conversion process or do i need to select them manually? thank you

i forgot to mention the source is aiff.avi

[KingJohn]

No you wont need DivX 5.01 if you have 5.02
The Nimo codec pack will provide you with the rest, and will be made available in any playback, editing program.

I am a little lost with the description you give for your source, are you using a MAC by any chance ? The reason I ask is that (AIFF) was developed by Apple and I don’t think I have ever seen an AVI with that for its audio

The Audio Interchange File Format allows for the storage of monaural and multichannel sample sounds at a variety of sample rates. Since it is an interchange format, it is easily converted to other file formats.

How big is that AVI 407mb ?, most of that might be audio then

AIFF files can be quite large. One minute of 16-bit stereo audio sampled at 44.1kHz usually takes up about 10 megabytes.

pulp fiction DivX (DVD rip) at 407Mb with AIFF audio ?

If you load into Vdub file > file properties What does it say

I juest did a search for pulp fiction, and found the DVD rip
675,103 KB Well thats a bit more like it, but who knows what they get upto out there

[umps]

No you wont need DivX 5.01 if you have 5.02
The Nimo codec pack will provide you with the rest, and will be made available in any playback, editing program.

I am a little lost with the description you give for your source, are you using a MAC by any chance ? The reason I ask is that (AIFF) was developed by Apple and I don’t think I have ever seen an AVI with that for its audio

The Audio Interchange File Format allows for the storage of monaural and multichannel sample sounds at a variety of sample rates. Since it is an interchange format, it is easily converted to other file formats.

How big is that AVI 407mb ?, most of that might be audio then

AIFF files can be quite large. One minute of 16-bit stereo audio sampled at 44.1kHz usually takes up about 10 megabytes.

pulp fiction DivX (DVD rip) at 407Mb with AIFF audio ?

If you load into Vdub file > file properties What does it say

I juest did a search for pulp fiction, and found the DVD rip
675,103 KB Well thats a bit more like it, but who knows what they get upto out there

king john - pulp fiction is aif. 641 mb. it actually took 8-10 hr with tmpgenc. i picked vcd but it saved it svcd. i also encoded snow dogs part 1 407mb with nero and it took 36 hr with audio out of sync; it definitely IS aiff. now i can't seem to load snow dogs pt2 or any other avi's into tmpgenc--says incompatible or can't be opened (even though i was able to do snow dogs pt1) . i had opened them before (testing tmpgenc). maybe its a glitch and need to redownload it??

i don't have apple. my specs are posted: winxp; pent iv 1.6; 20gb ibm 7200. i don't have vdub yet.

this is really getting on my nerves. unless you have any ideas as to why i can't open any video files into tmpgenc all of a sudden or have any other suggestions, i'll just go get nimo codec pack and hope for the best. or just quit trying all together. matter of fact, pulp fiction audio ended up out of sync. picture was fine though. thanks so much for your help. i think i should just pick movies that are already encoded such as labeled svcd or mpeg--they are already encoded aren't they? i messaged someone in winmx about it and they said yes. what i don't know is whether mpg and mpeg are synonymous??

[KingJohn]

You picked VCD but it made it SVCD ?, at the bottom you hit load to load a VCD template PAL/NTSC, after that you change NOTHING !, if you start changing things then who knows what might happen.

If you have made SVCD, they will take longer.

If you have the free version of TMPGEnc there is a 30 day limit on the mpeg 2 conversions, and V2.55 would work with the Nimo codec pack.

If you have the new TMPGEnc Plus 2.57, you wont be able to open SVCD mpeg 2 unless you have one of the recommended codec's . One installed by Power DVD 4 works just fine.

Trouble is, people update to the latest versions of these programs without realizing that things they did before no longer work.