DivX to Xvcd Conversion is Extremely Slow!!!?!!!

[fooda]

I have been trying the to convert a DivX movie to Xvcd using the walkthrough method on this site. The problem is when I get to the last step of the conversion using TMPGEnc and hit start, the video starts to play extremely slowly and the time left goes up to like 20 hours?!!!! Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Also, is Xvcd a better conversion then Svcd? Thanks.

[mats.hogberg]

"Not enoug data to compute." Without knowing neither your computer internals, nor the length of the movie, there's no way to tell if this is likely or not. Do you encode 2 hrs on a P200? Then it's a likely time for encoding. Is it 15 min on a PIV 2.4 GHz? Then it's a tad slow...

/Mats

[vitonxl]

I have a 1.3 ghz p4, 40 gb 8200rpm, 512mb ram

Mine is slow as hell too! I'll convert 75min of divx to svcd and it will take 4hrs and the settings are set to normal speed and i don't have any extra stuff set like color correction.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=121871

[mats.hogberg]

That doesn't seem too extremely slow. I never do MPEG2's, som I'm not the right person to ask, but I'm under the impression that MPEG2 takes longer to encode than MPEG1. My 1.7 GHz would take about 100 mins for a 75 min movie (standard VCD template).

/Mats

[bugster]

I have been trying the to convert a DivX movie to Xvcd using the walkthrough method on this site. The problem is when I get to the last step of the conversion using TMPGEnc and hit start, the video starts to play extremely slowly and the time left goes up to like 20 hours?!!!! Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Also, is Xvcd a better conversion then Svcd? Thanks.

Hmmm, 20 hours does seem quite long, but as mats.hogberg says, if you don't tell us your PC specs we can't really tell for sure.

vitonxl said:

I have a 1.3 ghz p4, 40 gb 8200rpm, 512mb ram

Mine is slow as hell too! I'll convert 75min of divx to svcd and it will take 4hrs and the settings are set to normal speed and i don't have any extra stuff set like color correction.

If thats fot 2-pass VBR in Tmpgenc, or even CQ mode with a high(ish) Q value, that sounds about right to me.

Mpeg-2 encodes generally have a higher bitrate that mpeg-1 and VBR is more complex than CBR and so takes longer. The only surefire solution is a faster processor (more/faster memory, faster HD etc may help a little but the CPU is the real bottleneck here)

[Timoleon]

I agree with Bugster --- if you are doing a 2-pass VBR with Tmpgenc, then the time doesn't seem way out of whack, just long. I start my conversions at about 8 in the evening and let the computer run overnight, then when I come home for lunch from work the next day the conversion is usually done. It is a long time, but the quality of the finished product makes it worth it to me --- although I have heard other posters here say it's too much a pain in the ass to wait that long....