[b]CONVERTING DivX to VCD why does it take so long[/b]

[toys42000]

i am new to the whole vcd world so i am just messing around trying to learn this. anyway i am converting a divx to vcd using TMPGEnc well i get all the way to the encoding and it w=starts out saying it will take 4 hours to do it well i let it go till the next mouring and i looked to see what it did it was about 30 % and now it is saying it willl take 24 hours to complete and that is just have of the divx cause i had to split it. why does it take so long to encode stuff and is there anyway i can speed it up? what on your computer makes that faster the prosser? cause i am getting a new computer with a 2.0 GHz pentium4 will that make a difference right now i am using a computer i think is 800MGz or smaller please help thank you

[macleod]

Well, we/I'd like to know a little more about your settings for both the divx file and the TMPGENC settings. TMPGENC does take awhile to encode. The 800mhz computer may have a little to do with it, but not 24 hours. In order to give you a better answer, please let me/us know the following:

DIVX info like fps, bit rate, resolution size, audio

TMPGENC settings - are you using motion estimate/ highest/fastest, etc.

I have a 1.2 gig and to convert a 1:40 NTSC 29.97fps 352x240 dvix to the same spec vcd takes about 6-8 hours in TMPGENC.

Short answer is that it should taken 24 hours for normal divx to normal vcd even with a 800mhz, but you would be look at 8-12, depending. Need more info.

[Keitaro]

when you get your new machine, you will see a good perfomance encoding (less time ) ;)

[toys42000]

ok so is there any other profgram out there that would go faster and would it be faster to go from dvd rip (DivX) to DVD rather than dvd rip to vcd. i heard of this program DVD Studio Pro but it is for mac and not pc is there something like it for the pc? i just want to be able to download a DVD RIP DivX files like movies in one file instead of downloading part one and part two of the movie cause u can't find good quilty in those only in the dvd rip are good quilty and they only come in one file. what do u think and what should i do? thank you

[ABAB]

Hi there, I'm finding my feet in the encoding world also but what I'm guessing happens is this.......at the beginning of the film where there are just credits and stuff rolling up the 'estimated' time you see is if the rest of the film was like that, i.e. not much happening. Then as the film starts the calculations get a bit more complicated and the 'estimated' time increases.
Or I could be talking rubbish.........
Obviously the settings you use have a big effect on encoding time also, do a search on the forum for good info on that one.
I just upgraded from a Duron 800 to a 1.8 Athlon with 256 DDR Ram and the encoding time has come down by at least a third.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thx all

[macleod]

Ok, so you are want to know is there are program that will make a divx to vcd go faster. The three encoders that I use are CCE, TMPGENC, and nero, all for different reasons, depending on the divx that I get ahold of.

your question

would it be faster to go from dvd rip (DivX) to DVD rather than dvd rip to vcd.

it really depends on what the source file is. DIVX is a highly compressed video file, when you computer is converting it, it must uncompress it and then reencode it. That can take some time. I, personally have never done DIVX to DVD, but in the DIVX to VCD and DIVX to CVD world, it takes less them to convert to VCD (mostly because of the 44mhz and 48mhz audio issue).

Have you tried DVD2SVCD? If the Divx file has the comparable pieces to the orginal DVD, then you may want to use DVD2SVCD as it has a divx conversion tool.

[solarfox]

On my 1GHz Duron system, it takes ULead Media Studio Pro 6.5 about 1.5 - 2 hours to transcode a 30-minute DivX into DVD MPEG-2 form... which isn't much different from its performance when encoding from DV captures, or transcoding from other video formats, really.