How many passes to convert DVD to AVI using Dr. Divx?

[Serp86]

I apolozize, but i have already posted this in general hardware and got no reply, thus i tried here since on second thought it looks to be more appropriate.

OK. So basically, i was trying to convert a 130min dvd to AVI (2x700Mb so it fits on 2 cds), and everything is going on just fine.

However, i thought that it was nearly finished, but as the bar reached 100%, it started encoding the 2nd Pass. It is now 65% in the 2nd pass. Normally i wouldnt mind, but i am encoding on my main computer and have already been 2.5 hours waiting.

So, how many passes are there?

 

[Nothinman]

Depends. You can do either 1 or 2 pass encoding, I believe 2 pass is supposed to have better looking results.

 

[styrafoam]

The first and second pass usually take identicle lengths, at least for me they do.

 

[Serp86]

So, since i am in the 2nd pass, when it reaches 100%, i am finished?

Thank god....i was beginning to worry there was a third....and a fourth......and a fifth........and so on

(by the way, i chose DivX home theater video before beginning, not the High Definition option)

 

[Serp86]

1st took 1hr, 20 mins - i am 85% in second one, and 1hr 20mins have passed.

But i opened some programs during the 2nd pass

 

[Serp86]

hehe - my poor 2600+ @ 2300Mhz has been 100% loaded for 3hrs 30 mins

66 degrees C

 

[styrafoam]

I did a 95 minute file about 2 weeks ago, i think it was about 4 hours total. All of the setting were set to high quality.

 

[Serp86]

just finished 3hrs 30mins for a 124min video.

Not much of the quality was lost. Im impressed.

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Serp86
hehe - my poor 2600+ @ 2300Mhz has been 100% loaded for 3hrs 30 mins

66 degrees C

My XP1700+ @ 2.1GHz has been 100% loaded 24/7 for the past year 🙂

2 pass allows you to get the best quality in the same space 🙂 What it does is go through and estimate, then go through the second time, and actually encodes, using the information it found the first time, so that it uses more bits where they are needed, and less where they're not 🙂


Confused