CPU Speed VS DVD Ripping Times

[Pliablemoose]

Am ripping my first DVD (for back-up purposes only) with a 1.6 P4, TMPGEnc is running now, with a calculated time of 5 hours CPU pegged @ 100%.

How much would my performance increase (% of time) if I bumped up to a 2.4 P4?

 

[gaidin123]

Well ripping a DVD is mostly dependent on the DVD drive you use to do the ripping. If you are talking about encoding a DVD to divx/mpeg/whatever, that is very much a function of CPU speed and bandwidth/latency. Take a look at Anand's new hyperthreading article and check the divx encode time improvements just with hyperthreading.

Tom's Hardware has several good articles on divx encoding but basically if you just bumped up your 1.6A to >=133Mhz FSB you will experience a pretty good improvement in encode times.

divx especially is one of those things that you can't have too fast a computer for. 🙂

Gaidin

 

[P4spooky]

I am running a 1.6A at 2.4Ghz on a 4G4A+ at DDR 375, 512MB RAM. TMPGEnc runs for 3.3 hours to RIP a 2 hour movie. Hope this helps.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Thanks😀

 

[HappyNic]

depending on what format you want to encode the dvd vob file to, on a P4 2.0a @ 2.6 for a 2 hour movie (not mines) with 512 ddr ram

Divx 5.02 , with Simple DVDx2.0 you get around 40-50 fps, and a whole 2 hour movie takes about 45 minutes to 1 hour, this also depends on what movie you are encoding too.


(AMD XP 1800 (1.53g mhz) 512 ddr ram 120g hd, etc
I use TMPGEnc to encode Divx (avi) into SVCD format so I can play them on a standalone dvd player. For a 30 min episode with motion search set to HIGH Quality (slow) it takes about 30 mintues to complete the encoding. If you set motion search to "normal" or "estimate" it'll take about 23 mins to complete. Both using the SVCD(film)ntsc templates.

I'm gonna go try out my friends 2.53a at 3.0 P4 when I get a chance

 

[techietam]

I've noticed that my 1900+ was doing better job than P4 2.4
running DVD2SVCD 🙁

 

[r0ck]

i can rip a 150 mins DVD with DVD2SVCD in about 10 hours (using 5 VBR pass,subs,2500 max bitrate)
this is with XP 2100+

 

[Duvie]

While I don't use same program...I use gknot divx encoder with 2 pass vaiable bit 2 cd rip with 192-224 kbit audio.....


Same movie encoding time....

1.6@1.6 with 266mhz ddr = 4hr 10 min
1600+xp at default w/ 266mhz ddr = 4hr
1.6@2.4 w/ 400mhz ddr = 2hr 34min
1.6@2.64 w/ 440mzh ddr = 2hr 15min
1.6@2.73 w/ 342mhz cas 2 ddr = 2hr 13min


I hope this helps....

 

[techietam]

While I don't use same program...I use gknot divx encoder with 2 pass vaiable bit 2 cd rip with 192-224 kbit audio.....

Is it DivX or VCD?
Does it do all-in-one job instead of using different programs?
Thanks 🙂

 

[Duvie]

I think you could do it all in one program..I know it has a ripper built in...

However...I run smartripper 2.41...then dvd2avi (takes like 2-3min) then the rest audio and video is all done in the same program. Just walk away from it and it will be ready to play...It has divx 3.11 and divx 4 support as well.

 

[gaidin123]

gknot, or Gordian Knot is a frontend for several freeware programs. doom9.org has several very useful guides for encoding divx, or vcd, or copying DVDs. The guy that writes the guides has been using gordian knot for a while now and I've used it with pretty decent results. I still wish I could find an even simpler program to control the entire process but I guess you have to balance usability with ease of use and when it's free, I can't complain. 🙂

EDIT: The nice thing about gordian knot is that it includes all of the free programs it uses so you don't have to hunt all over the place finding the right ones.

Gaidin

 

[tart666]

i can rip a 150 mins DVD with DVD2SVCD in about 10 hours

That sounds a little slow for an XP2100+

I get about 1/3x (1hr movie -> 3hr convert time) with DVD2SVCD, CC 2.50, 4-pass on my XP1600+

I've noticed that my 1900+ was doing better job than P4 2.4

That's very discouraging. Considering DVD2SVCD was one of the reasons I got the new Dell 4550 2.4 a couple weeks back. :frown: Haven't tried it yet, though.