How fast is everyone encoding with 3-pass VBR. Give us the numbers...

[kingshiz]

I have a 1 ghz Pentium III and to do a two hour movie with 3 pass VBR it takes roughly 16-18 hours. With a faster computer, say a 2.4 ghz or a athlon how fast are others getting with 3 pass VBR and a two hour movie. Please give me some numbers, I'm thinking about upgrading to something faster, like a 2.4 but if it doesn't improve performance screw intel i'll stick with what I got.

[roy]

I have AMD XP 1600+, 256 DDR RAM, Abit KG7R and I get speed 1,32. It means 33 fps. You can calculate now how much time will it take to encode any film. This is much faster than encoding the same film using as codec Divx or Xvid.

[jledhead]

I have an Athlon XP1500 and a 2 hour movie takes about 4-6 hours with 3 pass MPEG-2 and frameserving to CCE

[ChrisBensch]

I have a dual athlon MP 2000+ and 512mb pc2100 and I get anywhere between 1.750 and 2.100 in cce which makes the average movie take about 3 to 4 hours or so. That includes separate audio and muxing/authoring.

[baskarans]

i have a P4 1.3 with 512 RDRAM i use it for VCD creation. i usualy get up to 1.5 real time. but on avarage it is around 1.27. it takes about 2hr for a 2 hr 32 min movie on 1 pass vbr to make VCD.

[Deepa DvD]

I have a Pentium4 2.0 Ghz + 528MB and I encoded a Mpeg2 video in 16 minutes, the lenghth of the movie was 03:12:08 And used VBR 3-Pass min-2,000 max-9,000 avg-6,000 I am going to use this video to Author a DVD in Scenarist. But right now I am having problems with the encoded file.

[kingshiz]

16 minutes your full of shiz.

[Deepa DvD]

Originally posted by kingshiz
16 minutes your full of shiz.
Not 3 hours.3 minutes 12 seconds and 8 milliseconds or sometin.< whateva they call it.
My mistake cuz I just copied the numbers out of CCE which were on the video file.

[kingshiz]

sorry i'm a dumb ass.

[jdobbs]

I have an AMD 1.3GHZ TB Processor with 512Mbytes memory and three passes on a two hour movie takes a little less than 5 hours to encode (the VAF pass and two more).

[user]

With pseudo avi (.avs) (advantage: you need only little space on HD) it resulted to 0,3 down to 0,2 or 0,25 (dependent on aspect ratio and Bob-deinterlacing or not) on my P3-600@800, 256 MB.

Today I changed to real avi way (LeadTools 1.0.0.3).
my new 80 GB HD...
Space enough....

0,7 !!

More than double speed !

[Arky]

Unless you are all going to supply your output framesizes, then this discussion is utterly redundant. ANY processor will encode smaller framesizes (e.g. 352x288 VCD PAL) faster than full DV1 (720x576 PAL / 720x480 NTSC). Number of passes is obviously relevant, too, together with any resizing (i.e. what size original footage is everyone using?), and any filters applied during the processing.


Arky ;o)

[priss]

I have a PIII 500mhz + 512mb PC100 RAM. I do a 2pass VBR in about 15hrs.

[GitsLM]

Ive a p3 1 ghz running on 750 mhz 512 mb ram (pc133) and a 110 min movie with 4 pass takes about 18 hours :) but the quality is perfect so i dont care :) ill never use 3 pass so i dont know how long it takes ;)

[golfbc]

I have been exclusively a DIVX fan but am warming to SVCD because of portability. The 4 pass process took 6.5 hours for a 139 minute movie. System is P4 2.0 GHZ with 512 DDR.
Golfbc

[Arky]

Can anyone give me numbers for encoding >TO< PAL 720x576, >FROM< PAL 720x576 DV-footage, rather than DVD-rips?

I wish to encode DV PAL footage (DV probably in Canopus DV codec format, for the techies amongst you!).

Thanks for any replies - I do relaise that most of you are using Ripped DVD source material, rather than DV-footage, but since the colour-space is different between these sources, there will obviously be a difference in encoding speed.


Arky ;o)

[jdobbs]

Arky,

I know you're asking for PAL information. But just for consideration, I do NTSC DV footage into MPEG-2 and it encodes at about half the speed I get using AVISynth on ripped DVD source material.

[Arky]

Ok cheers jdobbs :)


Arky ;o)

[destarded]

System:
AMD TBird 1.33 GHZ
256 MB RAM (pc133)
I get about 0.5 in CCE, although, I'm using temporalsmoother, without it, roughly 1.0