Encoding DivX takes a looooong time.

[BlamoHammer]

I have been on a mission to backup all of my DVDs into DivX format for easy viewing on my PC and tonight I finally started. Jesus this takes a long time. Enemy at the Gates was the first candidate and its going to take nearly 5 hours to take it from DVD rip to DivX format. Does anyone know of anythign I can do to speed up this process?

I'm currently running a 1.8 P-4 with 512 MB DDR. If I were to upgrade how much of a difference might it make?

 

[Dragnov]

Whats your DVD Rom speed?

Naturally, faster computer will help but dont think its worth the cost. Maybe save you an hour at the most I think.

 

[BlamoHammer]

Originally posted by: Gr1mL0cK
Whats your DVD Rom speed?

Naturally, faster computer will help but dont think its worth the cost. Maybe save you an hour at the most I think.

It's a 16x.40x DVD but I'm not sure if that really makes a difference. Ripping the movie from the DVD takes only 15 minutes. It's the encoding that ripped file on my hard drive into the mpeg-4 format that is taking soooo loooong.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: PCH0

Originally posted by: Gr1mL0cK
Whats your DVD Rom speed?

Naturally, faster computer will help but dont think its worth the cost. Maybe save you an hour at the most I think.

It's a 16x.40x DVD but I'm not sure if that really makes a difference. Ripping the movie from the DVD takes only 15 minutes. It's the encoding that ripped file on my hard drive into the mpeg-4 format that is taking soooo loooong.

deal with it

 

[Dragnov]

Yeah, just wondering... might have been gneralizing ripping and encoding. Don't think theres a way around w/o faster parts. I believe its the processor that makes the most difference (friend was ripping before on Duron, but when he was doing it on my Athlon it was faster.) You probably know more than me anyways...

 

[hollowman]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n1

Originally posted by: PCH0

Originally posted by: Gr1mL0cK
Whats your DVD Rom speed?

Naturally, faster computer will help but dont think its worth the cost. Maybe save you an hour at the most I think.

It's a 16x.40x DVD but I'm not sure if that really makes a difference. Ripping the movie from the DVD takes only 15 minutes. It's the encoding that ripped file on my hard drive into the mpeg-4 format that is taking soooo loooong.

deal with it

wow, that does speed up the process doesn't it.

 

[KK]

Why not just download it off a newsgroup or something. You own the CD, so copyright infringement is non-existant. Should only take 1-2 hours to download if you're on broadband.

KK

 

[klah]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1718&p=10

 

[BlamoHammer]

Originally posted by: KK
Why not just download it off a newsgroup or something. You own the CD, so copyright infringement is non-existant. Should only take 1-2 hours to download if you're on broadband.

KK

True, my roommate as asked me the same question a few times. I do like being able to ensure myself that the quality will be top notch though. Ive downloaded too many and had them come out subpar.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

does nobody else just rip like 3 dvds, queue them up to encode, and sleep in?

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n1
does nobody else just rip like 3 dvds, queue them up to encode, and sleep in?

Nope, some of us are too busy hacking into our roommates computers to steal the address to Live Journal sites

 

[0roo0roo]

if you really own the dvds, its not worth the trouble. a 2 pass divx is still not as good as a dvd. its size isn't all that much smaller, maybe 4-5 times smaller then plain vobs. and why would you bother anyways, your computers dvd drive is too precious to use? if you like amovie enough u probably want to see the special features anyways.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

XviD > DivX

 

[randomlinh]

blah, divx5 has won... or is pretty close. They have their "dvd divx player" now...

but yes, encoding does take a while. is that 5-6 hrs for 1 or 2 pass? Regardless, you'll be spending a good amount of time

 

[Buzzman151]

dude... that's not that bad for a DivX 5 2x pass rip on a large movie like Enemy at the Gates..... i usually get anywhere b/t 4 and 6 hours myself so you're not sitt'n too bad

 

[BD2003]

The lower the res, the faster it'll encode. Use P4 accelerated components and it should get faster. I can usually get through a 2-pass DivX5 with all options on in about 3-4 hours. BTW, what program are you using?

 

[0roo0roo]

my celly def takes 6 hours for 2 pass i've tried it on a p2 400, literally 24 hours+. scary.

 

[rh71]

I don't know the specific details of my encoding divx session (2-pass, etc.), but it took me less than 3 hours total for KISS THE GIRLS the other day.

It's a 1.0GHz T-bird, 384MB PC133 ... using DVDx w/ divx codec and Radium MP3 audio codec.

 

[0roo0roo]

that doesnt make any sense unless your resolution setting isn't very high.

 

[Parrotheader]

I rip my DVDs so I can watch them at the office on my secondary system while I'm working. I usually don't bother with 2-pass since it takes so long and since I'm not that concerned with the quality as I'm basically using the movies for background atmosphere and not actively watching them most of the time. Although I have ripped some 2-pass high bitrate DVDs to fit on 2 CDs and the quality was awesome. Although once you get up to bitrates where you're ripping for 2 CDs you can almost get away with only doing one pass since the bitrate level's so high anyway. For a one-pass on my Celeron 1.3 most movies take roughly 3.5 hours or so.