Please help with AVI to MPG converting with TMPGEnc

[Matrixaddict]

Hello
I'm new at this and I was wondering if you guys could maybe help me out a bit. Any help will be greatly appreciated. So far I have had no probs converting files, but it takes a long time and I wanted to know if thats just the way it is of if I can do something about it. When I convert an AVI to MPG it takes about 40 mins to do 30 mins worth of video. Is this right? Can it be made faster? Also how can I tell if the file will fit on a 80 min CD? So far I figured that SVCD is about 38 to 40 mins of video on a 80 min CD. Is that right?
Here are my PC specs
P4 2.4ghz
512 RD ram
2 x 40GB maxtor 7200rpm drives with 10gb free total
GeForce2 GTS 64mb Video
SB Live sound
TDK Velocd 16x10x40

Thanks guys

[MaDmiZe]

First....I wouldn't complain about 40 per 30 minutes of video....thats almost real time...It takes my dinasor( see spec) about 12-14 hours for an hour and a half movie.....Once I did a Kwang templat encode that took 39 hours for a 87 minute long flick...(shakes the clown...the ben hur of alcoholic clown movies)

Where was I...Oh for standard VCD roughly 80 minutes of video on a 80 min CDR.......SVCD 40 minutes is about average....Nonstandard VCD I've goten 2hours 16 minutes on...good quality.

[KingJohn]

Hello
I'm new at this and I was wondering if you guys could maybe help me out a bit. Any help will be greatly appreciated. So far I have had no probs converting files, but it takes a long time and I wanted to know if thats just the way it is of if I can do something about it. When I convert an AVI to MPG it takes about 40 mins to do 30 mins worth of video. Is this right?
Thanks guys

That is slow on a 2.5, for 30 Min on a P4, 1.6 that would take 25 min or so using a standard VCD template, I would expect a lot of improvement on a 2.5...

You put me off getting one now

Do you have the latest version of TMPGEnc, are you changing any of the settings ?

Ah, I can see you have Windows 2000, dont know about that, I use Win98SE

[Matrixaddict]

Thanks guys
Another issue I got going is that sometimes I need to use 4 cds for a 2hr movie. Can I fit more time in one cd while keeping the quality high. I use TMPGEnc but I dont change any settings because I dont know how to.
Any help would be appreciated.

[KingJohn]

If they are 320 Minuet long movies then yes it would take 4 VCD's, unless your using SVCD ?
What is the length of the movies, they mostly fit on 2 VCD's