TMPGEnc problem

[arstigmata]

everytime i try in convert a movie with TMPGEnc it ends up taking for ever actually ive never converted a whole movie with TMPGEnc. I will start the encoding just like the HOW TO says and il leave for about 15 minutes, il come back and il say the remaning time is 245 hours. I dont know why it does this

[lnetzel]

Probably a number of reasons and if we just leave out that something would be wrong... the big bottleneck is a lesspowerfulk computer. So what kind of computer do you have?

I have a PIII 600 and for me to convert a DivX movie to MPEG-1, on Highest Quality (not really nessesary). It takes somewhere between 8-24 hours. Usually under 10, but I had a weird ASF movie which took 24 hours ones.

It does olso depend on if the processor or busy or not, I recomende turning EVERY other application off, like Real Player, Winamp aganet, ICQ, Zonealarm (takes 13 % of my processror) etc. That willl shorten the time.

I guess if you are sitting with a Pentium 133, 200 hours is not impossible.

I fyou have a powerful computer... I guess these must be something wrong...

[arstigmata]

I have a pentium 3 500mhz

[moneyman13]

arstigmata..mine doesnt take 200 plus hours but i do have a 1300 athlon with 256mb and mine takes anywhere from 5 to 6 hours..so it isnt a fast process, and that is running on either normal or high quality..also what will help speed up your encodin process is in dvd2avi program clip&resize it and take away the black bars around the movie, but make sure to have it divisable by 8

[arstigmata]

Even if I keep the enocoding goin it stops responding anyway

[P@iNKilleR]

Hello matey!!! are you converting a dvd? if yes try flask it will work alot better than Tmpeg... Tmpeg is good for splitting & merging but converting a dvd it is a little unstable!!! Kev!

[arstigmata]

Its an divx.avi since nero wont burn that I am try to encoded it to an vcd.

[RCP]

I've had problems with divx's taking super long and it was something the way the sound was muxed in. The divx played ok by itself. I skipped the first part of the movie and it estimated 2hrs(originally 8hrs and it never changed). The way I cured it was to use vdub and extract the sound to a wav file then use tmpgenc with the divx as the video source and the vdub wav as the audio source. I had to do this with several movies. I also noticed that some times if I tried to split the divx with vdub it would get a audio error doing the second half.

[Jeomite]

Make sure you changed the Priority Level under Option -> Task Priority. Also make sure your Motion Precision Search isn't HIGHEST QUALITY, but rather HIGH QUALITY only. Both definitely affects the encoding processing time.

[RaoulDuke]

Same thing is happening here I have about 20 .asf files I downloaded, all about 50meg and 25 minutes apiece or so and 50% of them will convert with tmpeg in about 35minutes (p3 600mhz 512mb win2k) the others it will estimate the time at 120 hours, I've set all the task priority stuff as recommended but what gives?

I've also noticed that the ones that convert in a normal amount of time, if I look at the perf. monitor in task manager the cpu is maxed at 100% but the ones that say 120 hours the cpu is only at 2 or 3% the whole time? anyone have any ideas? I could provide one of the tainted files to someone if you want to see this.

[agzz]

My TMPG always show the wrong time, i dont know why and i dont care, since im frameserving from flask and flask shows right.

take a look at the nr of frames right of the progress bar.
maby thats where the problem is. my always sais 3"and a lot of 0s". no matter how long the film is.