Long encode time for ISO to xvid

[nsafreak]

This should be a fairly quick question and I may have just answered it myself but I just want confirmation. I'm doing an encode of an ISO file that I ripped from DVD to xvid format via Fair Use Wizard. This is being done with the Xbox 360 presets since I plan on playing it back using my 360. This particular encode is going to take close to 8 hours total. Which to me seems quite long but perhaps its just because I have an old PC. I'm using a Pentium 4 (Northwood) 3.0Ghz CPU with 2 GB of RAM. Should I expect encode times like this normally? And is there any way to speed up the encode process at all? The rip to ISO took just a couple of minutes so I was hoping that the encode wouldn't take terribly long.

 

[velillen]

yes some of it s probably just cause of your older pc specs (my mom had a p4 2.8ish with 1GB of ram and it took a good 10 hours to convert to ipod format form dvd)

as for speeding it up nothing i sreally going ot get it down super low...you could maybe shave 30 minutes to an hour if you set it to highest priority with the lowest quality and single pass. but best to just set this up when your going ot bed and let it run over night.

 

[0roo0roo]

rip is just copy and should be fast.
encode is far different.
depends on quality settings, skimp and you can lower the encode time. and of course efficiency of encoder. you can always try other software to see if it works faster.
doing two pass encoding?
also length of film
i haven't done a dvd in a while but 8hrs seems long for a 3ghz p4.

 

[ShawnD1]

My Athlon 3200+ could encode at the play speed of the video, when making standard video sizes. The standard size is about 350mb for a 44 minute episode of a TV show, or 700mb for a movie less than 2 hours long; this is with 128kb sound, and the rest going to video. The standard size is based on ~480p, or a bit lower, and with very few artifacts.

If you're ripping something like 5 hours of Star Trek, and you're encoding as high quality 1080p, then 8 hours is pretty good.

What you can do in the mean time is set encoding to low priority and just let it run while you play games and do normal computing stuff. You won't even notice the encoding process, but you'll have a product at the end of the day.