Anything faster than Nero?

[aiannar974]

I am using Nero Digital AVC. The time it takes to compress a video/DVD is about 8.5 hours. Is there anything faster?

I am running on an HP Laptop with an AMD 65bit 3200 processor with 512MB memory and a 4200 rpm harddrive.

Anthony

[westgroveg]

I am using Nero Digital AVC. The time it takes to compress a video/DVD is about 8.5 hours. Is there anything faster?

I am running on an HP Laptop with an AMD 65bit 3200 processor with 512MB memory and a 4200 rpm harddrive.

Anthony
Your hdd is the speed bottleneck so I doubt anything else will give you better performance.

[westgroveg]

My P4 1.7 GHZ is giving 15.55 FPS, so I expect it to take about 8 hours.

[DarkZell666]

If you're encoding to AVC, of course the HDD ISN'T the culprit, heck, it's AVC, you can't expect 80fps just as if you were passing the DVD through DVDShrink ...

And expect the 2nd pass to be slower still (if it needs one).

And HDD's are capable of writting a whooping 10MB/s (100mbps, as in ATA-100), so I doubt a clumsy 800kbps (0.08mbps) encode will saturate the HDD activity ;)

Nero can be faster, just as x264 can be faster if you don't use all the maximum-quality settings.
The tradeoff is yours.

[westgroveg]

If you're encoding to AVC, of course the HDD ISN'T the culprit
[QUOTE]
Do the test & find out.

[QUOTE]it's AVC, you can't expect 80fps
He didnt say he wanted ASP speeds but I'm sure he was atleast expecting realtime.

I have a Athlon 3000+ 64 bit, & get 30+ FPS using Nero AVC so why do you think he has such poor encoding speed using a 3200???

[DarkZell666]

It mostly depends on the resolution and the settings he's using if you ask me ... but I find 15fps kinda normal.

I have a Athlon 3000+ 64 bit, & get 30+ FPS using Nero AVC
My P4 1.7 GHZ is giving 15.55 FPS

You have 2 computers then ? Not that I doubt it or anything, it just seemed wierd when I read your 2nd post, I though you were inventing those numbers :)

@aiannar974: I'd be grateful if you described a bit more precisely what you were doing. What version of nero ? What settings ? What resolution are you encoding to ?

8.5 hours.What length is the movie and what's your encoding speed ?

So many questions people should learn to answer before they're asked, it makes solving the problem so much easier and avoids confusions or guessing games ...

[westgroveg]

You have 2 computers then ? Not that I doubt it or anything, it just seemed wierd when I read your 2nd post, I though you were inventing those numbers
Yes I have 2 computers, I use the P4 & my girl firiend uses the other.

Those numbers are what Recode was telling me.

[aiannar974]

Hello,

I am using Nero Ultra 7. The Nero Digital veriosn is 2.3.2.0

Movie Length is 2:23 hours. The movie resolution is NTSC 720x480, 16:9 @ 29.97 fps.

I have nero digital set at:

Nero Digital Category: Nero Digital AVC
Nero Digital Profile : Standard AVC
Fit to target of 1750 MB this will give 1.63 Mbps

I did not use expert mode so everything should be defult except I asked for High Quality encoding (2-pass).

Does memory have an effect? I have a lot of memory being taken by processes (about 200MB). The hard light only comes on every few seconds during encoding, so I agree, it is not HD limited. What would adding a gig do for the speed? Or getting rid of some processes like Norton.

Anthony

[DarkZell666]

Memory's speed (DDR vs. DDR2) would have an effect, much more than the quantity (unless the swapfile is used often because you have oher hungry processes running at the same time, like norton AV, as you mentionned).

But hmm no, according to what you said, your speed is pretty normal. The only thing that would make it faster would be to turn down the big horizontal slider (can't remember what it's called). I get hardly faster speeds encoding stuff to 640*y or 576*y on a mobile sempron 2800+, so there really isn't much you can do.

[aiannar974]

Okay - Thanks for the info. It is what it is and it sounds normal. There is no reason not to run it at night.

Thanks,

Anthony