How to convert avi/dvix to VCD faster?its going sooo slow!

[Protoss]

Im converting this Lord of the ring Avi into VCD,and its taking me about 7-8 hours for each hour!

i have a AMD 950 with 756 RAM, its not the best,but its pretty decent.
One of my friend can convert a whole movie in like 2-3 hours...and this LOTR movie is gonna take me like 24 hours.

I use the standart setting,and the motion search Precision is set at normal.
I'm using TMPGenc by the way.Also i use avi2wav to extract the sound first(if that does matter).

Also there is 1 wierd thing...its been a pretty long time i didnt made VCD,but i remember back when i was encoding a lot,when encoding avi into Mpeg,the Mpeg always got about 130% the size of the AVI.

Now lately i been encoding,and i always get an mpeg file that is smaller than the original AVI.Also the quality is still pretty good even if its smaller.
I'm not whinning about this,its just great,but i just want to know why its smaller

thx in advance

[Protoss]

oh..and forgot 1 question.

I use nero for burning,and i would like to know if its safe to overburn.
Im scared that overburnning could cause problem to my cd-burner.

[Gazorgan]

Very odd? I encode VCD's at something like 200 fps on an Athlon 2400+, so you should be doing at least 80 fps ( 1 hour to encode the whole thing ). I strongly suspect the problem is in your resizeing. Since your original is what??? 640x2?? and your going to 320x240? This is very difficult to do correctly and not get a very very skinny picture.

You may get much better speed by cropping/resizeing/masking with VDUB and frameserving?

[Protoss]

original Avi is 320x240 so i keep the same size.

Im not sure i understand that thing about Vdub.Some ppl told me to use the frame serving thing but i dont know how to.

can u explain to me how Vdub can make me converting faster?or if its too long,can u just tell me where i can get the appropriate info?