I just started using dvd2svcd with cce a few days ago and decided to try it. I read the guide at doom9 and understood most of it. i started to try converting home alone 4 dvd to a svcd. everything seems to have went okay till the encoding. at first, it said 4 hours till encoding is done. once that was done, a new window popped up and it said 7 hours till encoding time is done. is that suppose to happen? i am using 3 multipass vbr with noise filter and some configured bitrate. i have a amd athlon 1050mhz with 256 ram. hoping someone could help tell me average enocoding time and why mine is so long. i read that the average was like 4-6 hours. plz help. thanx
try using easy vcd it's much easier to use it convert to many formats including XVCD and XSVCD which can be played in a standard DVD player... Check out http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.php for compatiblity with your Stand Alone DVD and http://www.eazyvcd.tk/ for the Easy VCD Program.. you won't be disapointed..
When you use multipass VBR in CCE, there is an extra pass at the beginning to create a file with information about the video so it can set the bitrate for the best picture at the desired bitrate. When it does the first pass, the time left that it reports is for that pass only. When it starts the 3 passes you told it to make I believe it will show you the total time left for all remaining passes. I've used 1 Pass VBR for a while now so I can't remember for sure, but I think that's right.
If you are Backing up a DVD to SVCD then there isno need to use Multipass, One Pass VBR will work Just as good when useing High quality sources such as DVD"s, In this case Multipass is a Waste of time....
