isn't decoding suppose to be fast?

[kreactor]

using xp2500 1gig ram (1gig static swap file ) to convert rmvb files to mpeg and it
takes forever..... i thought it's only encoding audio/video that's the time
consuming part, or is this part of real media's crappiness and thus frowned upon
by most atoters when they see a link to a .rm

 

[Crusty]

Uhmm.. you are decoding the .rm and then ENCODING it to .mpg....

 

[kreactor]

umm....what's the intermediate file called?

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: kreactor
umm....what's the intermediate file called?

There is no intermediate file.

Your computer takes the .rm file decodes it and then encodes it to .mpg and uses whatever codec you have decided for .mpg be it mpeg-2 mpeg-4...

 

[kreactor]

no intermediate raw/ source file .....damn....

would converting it to mpeg2 be faster than to mpeg1 since there's less
compression involve (more clueless assumptions by me)

where can i read about which file format is compress and which isn't?

 

[Crusty]

It all depends on the program you are using really.

You could save it as an uncompressed avi file... but it will be huge.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: kreactor
no intermediate raw/ source file .....damn....

would converting it to mpeg2 be faster than to mpeg1 since there's less
compression involve (more clueless assumptions by me)

where can i read about which file format is compress and which isn't?

Don't know but encoding takes time. Just leave it on over night.

 

[notfred]

FYI:

Decoding is the process of turning a compressed video file into moving pictures.
Encoding is the process of turning moving pictures into a compressed video file.

If you're going from one format to another, your converter program might not actually draw the moving pictures that it gets from decoding before it starts encoding that picture again... it can do the whole thing in memory.