Extremely long video encoding times?

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My system is an Athlon XP at 2.2ghz, 512MB RAM, nForce2.

Right now it's taking me over 5 hours just to encode an hour of DVD (mpeg2) at 4700kbs video. I'm using TMPGEnc, converting from AVI(DV). Now I know Athlons aren't the best at encoding, but this means it'll take me 10 hours just to encode one full DVD. Please tell me I'm just doing something wrong...

Thanks for any tips you can give...

 

[LeetViet]

In my experience, encoding is all about CPU power so try closing any potential CPU hogging program?

 

[Bateluer]

Not familiar too much with that utility. I usually use GordianKnot and DivX5 or Xvid to encode my movies. Encoding DVDs on an AXP is usually an overnight process, but 10 hours does seem a bit excessive. I'd take a look at www.doom9.org. They've got everything you ever wanted to know about video/encoding. 🙂

Edit - Out of curiousity, are you running your NF2 mobo in dual channel memory mode? It might help a little if you are, but you'd need two identical sticks of ram to do it. Not really sure how much of a boost it'd provide given that the AXP's FSB isn't fast enough to take advantage of it.

 

[UCJefe]

That actually sounds about right. TMPGEnc is slooow, but you get what you pay for (it's free!) CCE is the other popular alternative and is much faster but you also have to pay for it if you don't want a little logo on all your movies. I always do all my encoding overnight.

 

[jim1976]

If you are trying to convert captured videos then capture @ 720x576 with standard DVD bit rate.
That will dramatically decrease the time. Anyway most of the times you need a significant amount of time when converting large mpeg2 files to dvd with any program.