help for g-knot user

[SirRAIN]

hi im an old g-knot user and divx3 is i think the best on earth for divx- movies but nowerdays svcd/vcd is required so my question whats the best method for an "upgrader" like me to get into the vcd stuff- well tmpenc end dvd2svcd are quite simople but it toked me 15hours to encode mad max- thunder dome which was done in 2step encoding and in divx3 it only last 6 hours- is the mpeg codec really so slow ?

btw is there a way to use g.knot for vcd usage ?- dont think so maybe someone can get some light into this.. thanx

[Mac Sidewinder]

First of all - No Gnot does not support Vcd creation - only a divx format.

Second - 15 hours is typical depending on computer specs and movie length. If you want to cut down on encoding time you can try a one pass encode instead of multiple passes. Search and you will find quite a bit of discussion on single pass encodes.

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[SirRAIN]

yeah right my amd 1900+ gets an mad max- short movie within 6hours done- 2 passes g-knot- 640 resolution

sure 1 pass encoding is faster but what seems strange to me when i remember on the good old mpeg2avi command line conversion- it was a lot faster then tmpgenc or im wrong- maybe its just the wrong switch on a tab...

[emilius256]

TMPG is really damn slow, you can use CCE that is faster.
Otherwise you can encode with TMPG using CQ instead of 2PassVBR.
More is explained in the following link
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18665&highlight=how+get+tmpg
HTH
Bye.

[SirRAIN]

sounds good- i will try it