Dvd ripping Speed

[Mrsash]

Well this is what i would like to know from good members of this forum

I own a 450Mhz P3 and was going to upgarde to the latest. I do a lot of stuff and one most is dvd ripping to svcds and vcds

Now my question is how lons does it take for you guys with the fastest or almost there to encode the movie

PLz include these details
cpu-speed
ram-type
Hdd-brand and speed
Time taken to encode the movie and the appz used(total time in each app)
Frames per second the app encodes

I know this is too many datails to ask but i was thinking either buy a new computer or just get a standalone DVD burner

thanks guys

[ChannelK]

Forget pentiums, (I know this is gonna start a fued) uless you have too much cash to burn their just not worth it. Get Athlon XP, I have a 1700+, msi kt7266 pro 2 ru mobo, 256ddr and compress dvd 2 svcd (using cce) at average 1.4* real time. Divx to svcd at around 2* and dvd to divx5 at around 25fps (renerally at real time be that 25fps for pal or ~30 for ntsc).

ATA100 or 133 hard drives any model will really be sufficient, this is not so critical (others would disaggree). 256 ram is a minimum for compression, significant increases with 512 using cce encoder will be seen. Just ensure you get a FAST cpu and GOOD mobo, a qaulity mobo is vital to support a high end cpu (get a 333 chip set and ensure on-board raid)

Hope this helps.

[Mrsash]

thanks for that mate one question
what is 1.4* and 2*

Is this the time in hours to encode a movie?

thanks again

[Mac Sidewinder]

That is a ref to how fast the computer is processing the movie frames. Such as 1.5 means that the computer is processing approx 45 frames per second (ntsc) or 37 (pal). You can estimate how long it will take by dividing the total number of movie frames by how many frames per second are being processed. Then take that and multiply it by how many passes your encoder is doing (usually 2 passes for divx or around 4 passes for svcd using cce). This is for the video processing only. Then you have to add in how long your computer takes to rip the vobs, process the audio, and finally mux it all together.

I have a pent 1.4ghz, 16x dvd, 80gb ata100 hdrive, and it takes around 4 to 5 hours for a 2 pass divx 5 movie or about twice that for a 4 pass cce encode to svcd.

Mac

[ppera2]

For correct comparing you need some details about video too:
Input resolution after cropping and output resolution after resizing.
It has very big influence on speed.

For example I have over 100 fps when encode VCD (MPEG1 352x288) to DivX 5.02 (Quality setting).
When encode full PAL DVD (720x576) with resize to 720x320 it is only 24 fps .

[Fantasma]

My machine:

Pentium 4 1.7 Gigahertz
256 megabytes DDRam
Hard disk Maxtor, capacity 60 Gigabytes ( I love it)
DVD Acer, 16x DVD rom speed, 40x CD-Rom read speed
XP930 motherboard
Video Card Gforce2 32 megabytes ram

Ripping: A two hours DVD takes 10 minutes to be copied
to hard disk.

Encoding: I may have a two hours movie in 4 hours doing
a two pass.

[theReal]

I have an Athlon T-Bird 1400@1500 (150x10)
AMD761 Chipset (Epox Board)
Crucial 512MB PC2100 @300MHz, CL2
Pioneer 10x ATAPI DVD-ROM (just about to crap out...)

Other stuff is unimportant, I guess.

Ripping takes about 30-40 minutes because my crappy Pioneer DVD is about to die. It won't rip any DVD faster than 1.5x to 2x anymore.

An easy PAL-DVD to Divx5 conversion (with b-frames, gmc) with no filters and neutral bicubic resizing (in avisynth) to 704xnnn makes about 23fps in the first pass and 28fps in the second pass.
So, it also takes about 4 hours for a 2 hour movie in two passes.

Different settings, different encoding speeds, though: I finished Schindler's List today, which is a DVD made from LD (ntsc). It needed to be ivtc'ed and filtered with temporalsmoother(4,1). I resized it with Precise Bilinear in VDub (an RGB filter, so slower) to 640x352, light psychovisuals were on in Divx 5.
The movie is 3h 15min long but the conversion took 6.5 hours for the first and 5.5 hours for the second pass...

I just saw you also want to know the HDD brand and speed - I don't think it matters but I have two WD 60GB, 5400rpm and two IBM Deskstar GXP 120GB, 7200rpm.