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JermBos
11th December 2001, 00:05
Hi, I just made my first SVCD using DVD2SVCD.
It worked fine and the quality is great. One problem tho, I turned it on at 11:30 at night, and it didn't finish untill 4:15 the next day. Is this normal?
I am running an AMD 1Ghz Athlon with 256MB RAM and a 40GB Fugitsu HDD, I think this should be fast enough for this program.

Jeremy

mrbass
12th December 2001, 08:43
watch the CCE encoding part..what's your RT and number of passes then you can calculate at least your video encoding portion of the process. See Q61.

SVCDPhreek
12th December 2001, 09:53
well the biggest factors in your encode time is the lennth of the source and the the number of passes if using multi pass vbr,


I my self have a athlon 700 with 256mb,win2k sp2
and it gets realtime speeds of .480-.680 so that means that my usaul 3 pass encode of a 90 min source takes about 10 -12 hours start to finish hope this helps you

rudeboymcc
12th December 2001, 20:03
i set dvd2svcd at 10.00 , woke up the next morning thinking it would be ready, and it said 8 hours left. i've read that win xp slows the whole process down. this true?? i'm using amd athlon 800mhz, 384mb ram, win xp final corporate build.

markrb
13th December 2001, 07:02
I don't know where you read that. Most of the people I have read about say WinXP sped things up.

On my old P3 750 it would take about 20 hours on average to do a complete encode. On my Athlon 1700 XP it takes less then half that.

If you are using VBR drop the default encode(5) down to 4 or 3. You won't see any difference and it will knock off about 20% off the encode time.

Also shut off audio downsampling unless you use a SVCD stand alone player. DVD players play 48 just fine. This will save you about an hour.

Mark