How long does it take to convert a DVD to AVI on Core2Duo ?

[pynex]

Hello !

I just want to know - how long does it take to convert a episode of a series (like 24 oder Battlestar Galactica) on a Core2Duo 6300 or higher ?

original: DVD, 40 min,AC3
AVI: 350 MB, MP3 128 Kbit

Is it much faster, when you enable more than 1 thread in xvid ?

Many thanks in advance,

Pynex

[len0x]

something like 17-18 min on 6400 with 640 width (two threads which does matter)...

[BigDid]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

You also can have a look on these benches, even in french will give you relations between AMD and C2D dual cores and monocores:

http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/306/merom-et-conroe-test-des-core-2-duo/page8.php
or more recent:
http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/346/intel-core-2-extreme-quad-core-qx6700/page7.php

Did

[pynex]

something like 17-18 min on 6400 with 640 width (two threads which does matter)...
wow - that's quick - many thanks for your answer.

Hi and welcome to the forum.

You also can have a look on these benches, even in french will give you relations between AMD and C2D dual cores and monocores:

Ah, very informative - because of the comparison to P4, too. Thanks.

Pynex

[Mary H]

Is it much faster, when you enable more than 1 thread in xvid ?

I just got a Core 2 Duo 6600. Pardon my ignorance, but how do I enable more than one thread in Xvid? An encode of the size described above takes almost 2 hours, which is much faster than it was on my old P4, but it sounds like I could get a lot more speed by making this change.

[len0x]

if you're using latest AutoGK this is done automatically...

[Mary H]

Still with 2.27, I changed xvid encoder config to 2 threads setting. Time went down to 45 minutes for the same episode that before took two hours. (688 width, 4:3 AR, 400 MB size, 6600 core 2 duo)

Upgraded to 2.37b, time is still 45 minutes.

Nice increase from two hours, but still not close to the 17-18 minutes mentioned above.

[len0x]

Width of 688 at 4:3 has approximately 45% more pixels to encode comparing to width of 640 with 16:9 that I described, so no wonder (my timings also include no audio transcoding, no deinterlacing, no color correction).

[Mary H]

Width of 688 at 4:3 has approximately 45% more pixels to encode comparing to width of 640 with 16:9 that I described, so no wonder (my timings also include no audio transcoding, no deinterlacing, no color correction).

OK, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

I'm pretty new at xvid and AutoGK, but learning fast. :D Great program, btw!

[pynex]

(my timings also include no audio transcoding, no deinterlacing, no color correction).

O.K. - I was wondering, why it takes 50 min on my computer. Without all the other stuff, it takes 20-23 minutes.

[len0x]

yep, the rest of the difference is due to very aggressive memory settings and overclocking :)

[ghastly]

How do you enable multithreading for Xvid encoding? It takes forever to encode even 10 minutes of video and I have a core 2 duo processor... I think I'm doing something wrong.