How long should it take to encode a VCD with Nero..

[DanFungus]

I'm burning a 77 minute VCD on my 1.4 Athlon, 512MB RAM, from a 40GB 7200RPM hard drive, with nothing else running but Nero, and its taken 13 minutes to encode 15% of it, not even start burning. I've never burned a VCD before, but how long is normal to encode it.....?

 

[Zlash]

Normally only takes a minute or 2.

 

[DanFungus]

are you serious??????
It has taken me around 70 minutes now, and it's at 74%!!!!
(still encoding, not burning yet...)

 

[Gunslinger08]

Actually using a real program to convert from standard mpg to vcd (352x240, 29.97 fps, etc), takes me about 2 hours per half hour of video. I'm on an xp1700+

Josh

 

[Willoughbyva]

Video encoding is very cpu intensive. that is why most video professionals either use dual proccessors, or Apples.


Will

 

[richleader]

They're not talking about video encoding.

It should only take a minute or two, even if you added a custom menu. You might have better luck with Roxio.

 

[DanFungus]

thanks richleader, I will try Easy CD Creator!

 

[teddymines]

What is the source format you are feeding into nero? If you have mpegs that are close to the resolution of vcd (352x240), then it should be pretty quick. I capture to AVI at I think 352x480, then use TMPGEnc to batch process to VCD. A full hour's worth of source files took 5 hours to encode to VCD format on a 1.4 tbird, 512mb ddr, 60gxp, windows 2000 sp2 machine!

I recommend you do not use nero's built-in decoder, the quality is poor. Go the AVI->MPG route with TMPGEnc. You can set the motion precision to high and get output that is very close to vhs.