Hi guys - I'm kinda new on the DVD burning scene and I was reading some of those helpful threads in here and I can't help to notice that my encoding speed seems to be way too slow. I have a P4 2.8GHz PC (HyperThread) with 512DDR-400 RAM, ATI RADEON 9800 AIW PRO and WIN XP SP1. I use CuCusoft AVI to VCD, SVCD and DVD encoder and it takes, on average, 8 hours to encode a 700MB file. It's there a tweak that I have to do to make my encoding process faster? I have already tried TMPGEnc and it's even slower. I've also tried Mainconcept's encoder and it has decent encoding speed, but it encodes 1 single mpg file. I don't know what to do with that single mpg file. In summary, I have 3 questions; 1. How do I make the encoding process faster? 2. Can I use Mainconcept to just encode the video part of a movie and just demux the audio using another software? 3. How can I get an M2V file from the MPG output of Mainconcept? I use IFOEdit and it only supports M2V file (I think ;( I'm a newbie).. thanks for the help guys.. silver
i presume 700MB is 90 minnutes of feature. i've only use tmpgenc, as its good and free. if your're using 2pass vbr, you'll definteley will double the encoding time, try using CQ, but beware, its hard to predict the file size the first time. then you can use the motion estimate search, its fast but not the best. don't use any filter if you don't have too. go into the enviromental settings and check the use multi thread, though it will detect automatically, check it if it did. for me i use high quality and 23 minutes of video will take about 1hour10minutes with 2 pass vbr. and this is on an athlon xp2500+ barton core. the video card doesn't speed up things.
