How long does it take you to encode with TMPGEnc?

[fmctm1sw]

Hoping for a future upgrade. Please float me some data. For a regular 90 minute move or by the hour.. anything.....

Like:

CPU & speed: AMD, Intel, etc.
RAM speed: SDRAM, DDR, RIMM, etc.
Chipset: Sis, Via, Intel, etc.
Motherboard: if you know...
TMPG settings: CBR, 2 pass vbr, etc. to VCD and SVCD

[ZeroKool]

On my AMD Athlon 1900 MGhz 512 MB RAM, XP Home Edition 90 minute movie encodes in 90 minutes without any filters (standard CBR), with HIGH motion precision search filter it takes 120 minutes, with VBR 2 pass it takes 4 hours, longest ever was 7 hours with 5-6 filters applied.

[Toogy]

Man!

I must be doing something wrong, because it took me almost 2 hours to encode a 7 minute clip with 2 pass VBR slow motion selected.

Why would it take so long?

I have a P4 2.4 with 512 DDR ram

[Zippy72]

It also depends on what size the original capture/rip is, and what you're converting to. For example if I cap something at 352x288 and then convert to VCD (Motion Estimate Fast thing setting without filters), the conversion takes slightly less time than the running time of the film. However if the capture is at 640x480 or 704x576, the conversion takes longer.
Converting to DVD format for me takes approx 3 times the length of the film.
I'm on a PIV 1.7 gig with 256mb RAM.

[hammerhead]

I have a 333Mhz with 128Mb of ram and it takes about 10 hours to encode a movie. Its slow but it always works!

[decrepidloser]

I have a 333Mhz with 128Mb of ram and it takes about 10 hours to encode a movie. Its slow but it always works!

Just about the same here. I have a PII 333MHz, Intel 440 mb, w/192MB- SDRAM 33MHz(sorry no 1 just 33) and a 40GB ATA 100MHz (yes, I know the 440 mb can only do ATA 33MHz).

It takes me the movie length to rip.
Then to DVD2AVi takes x2 that.
(If I don't downsample it takes the length of the movie).
Then to encode with TMPGENc it takes about 8-9 hours to encode.
(This is where I kick it off right before I goto bed and it's done in
the mourning)

[mats.hogberg]

On my system, I usually get movie length * 1.25 when doing VCD standard encoding from DixX AVI source. For system specs, see profile.

/Mats