Any faster programs to encode?

[sikwidthis]

Been using TMPGE to make .avi to mpeg so i can burn to DVD+R, The average movie takes 6hrs or more.( Ex. Sweet Home Alabama) I have a Compaq 800MHZ Is there a faster way Plus a Hp200i DVD Writer and Plexter CD Burner.

[BJ_M]

get a faster cpu or use mainconcept or cce .. faster cpu speed going to help the most ..

[medievil]

with a 1.3 thunderbird Iand cce I get faster than real time encodes. CCE is expensive though. You can try the demo and see if it's to your taste.

[Faceman101]

CCE will give you a huge speed boost, but the learning curve is higher. You can increase speed with TMPGEnc by changing temp/cache setting in the options somewhere (do a search or im sure someone will post exactly how)

sorry, faces are from Pat

If you increase the temp/cache to something like 600meg the 2nd pass will fly.

[sikwidthis]

OK, If I buy a new Computer like the top of the line ,the fastest what that fastest now? How much faster will the encoding be?

[weeyoo]

You could probably cut it to less than 2 hours instead of 6, a big difference. I have a 1.2 athlon, and it usually takes me about 3 hours for svcd.

[EnemyWithin]

Depends on how many passes you are doing as well. On my dual AMD 2100's, I get around 1.8x speed with CCE. So, in my case, each pass takes around an hour (for an average movie of 110 minutes).

Unfortunately, CCE doesn't make full use of both CPU's (they run around 65%). Sometimes, I run 2 transcodes at the same time and get around 1.2x or so on both (they fluctuate).

[RabidDog]

I like that tip about inceasing the cache settings and making the second pass fly. Whenever I encode the first and second pass take pretty much exactly the same time. Except at the very very end when it writes the log for about thirty minutes. Will def give that a try! And will turn off the log.
Hmmm just checked that option .. its likely to need 1-2 EXtRA GBs on top of all your other files??