rempeg encode time

[dvd_maniac]

To anyone that might know,
I currently have a p4 1.5, 768 pc800 rdram, intel mobo running at 400fsb, 2*80GB ata100 7200rpm WD drive. I am thinking of where to put my money to best use. I capture alot of video with ATI AIW 8500 at it's highest possible capture settings and then reencode with rempeg. a 2 hour movie usually takes around 8 hours to encode. I am thinking of upgrading to p4 2.8, 512 pc1066 rdram, and p4t533 mobo 533fsb.
can anybody with similiar components tell me AROUND what to expect for a 2 hour movie to encode through rempeg? If not that great I will put that money elsewhere...
thanx in advance everybody

[bgates222]

i have a p4 2.4ghz 512 1066 rdram and rempeg takes about 5-6 hours

[auenf]

putting your money into buying CCE or TMPG or ProCoder would be your best bet.

you would get faster encodes and better quality encodes too.

Enf...

[bgates222]

yeah i have cce it takes about an hour and forty min

[dvd_maniac]

yeah i have cce it takes about an hour and forty min was this a 2 hour movie? I only do the main movie and rip just the ac3 and m2v files, then input into rempeg I don't even have to create a cffl file. change source and resolution and % and done. Now I have tried cce before but stopped because of the complexity of it. However I would go back and give another shot if someone can tell me the easest way to accomplish what I do?

[bgates222]

ACTUALLY I USUSALLY JSUT USE THE SAME SETTINGS AS THE CCE GUIDE IT CREATES THE M2V FILE THEN I JUST USE IFOEDIT TO AUTHOR THE AC3 AND M2V

[dvd_maniac]

i used cce just as the guide said for single pass vbr and got a file around 3.5GB for braveheart region1. this is fine but when after I use pulldown (with no parameters) it gives me a file that is the same size. Great so far, but here's where the problem begins. I import that file into maestro and it says 3 hours and 41 minutes. but the audio is just 2 hours 57 minutes. So I try to import the file that cce made before using pulldown and it goes in fine at 2 hours 57 minutes. I thought it had to be pulled before authoring program accepts it? will it work anyways, what gives. I am totally unfimiliar with pulldown.exe but have a decent understanding of what it does.

[bgates222]

ive done a few dvds with maestro and have never used pulldown cause i dont know what its for lol hmmm i wonder if that is why some of them are choppy? but as for the size if i noticed that is was too big a good way to cut out some megabytes is to reencode the audio from 384kbs to 224 it sounds the same to me. I doid heat with deniro/pacino and the gun battle sounded the same as the 334kbs. th eonly movie that cce didnt work to well for me is windtalkers the movie has pixelization on certain parts and at the end it kind of jumpy but its still decent and thats with one pass

[HomerJ]

dvd_maniac,
Spend some money / time on CCE. I used to use Rempeg, but not anymore.

It's CCE and Spruce Up for me.

As for Pulldown, one of the doom9 guides says :-

"If you have an NTSC movie you've most likely encoded it at 23.976 and will find that no authoring program will accept your video stream. This is because the stream has the wrong framerate."

I use PAL, so this does not affect me, but it seems straight forward enough.

HomerJ :)

[dvd_maniac]

but it seems straight forward enough.
not so, it doesn't say it when explaining the first pass. after the first pass is done it says that you are ready to burn if the size/quality is ok, but after explaining about multiple passes then it talks about pulldown
also, I rip with smartripper and I get a d2v file, everytime i try to frameserve through avisynth i get a frame size 748x56, cce supports up to 720x576 error message and can not continue...Anybody know why?

[auenf]

open up the avs in virtualdub and see what the error is (if any).

Enf...