How's this for the ultimate act of patience (or insanity depending on your p.o.v)

[BOB]

So, I decided to have a go at re-encoding one of my films (Terminator) I did test encodes of the first minute or so of the film and I followed the doom9 guides fairly closely.
Now, as it turns out after looking at the encodes fairly closely ReMPEG2 came out as the best quality, which I found a bit surprising considering how the guides say you achieve better quality with CCE & Tmpgenc instead of ReMPEG2, it was mostly minor stuff... like I could notice macroblocks on fade ins on the CCE & TMPGEnc encodes but I simply could not notice any macroblocks etc at all in the ReMPEG2 transcode.
So, i've decided to give Terminator a go transcoding the entire film to 82% of its original bitrate.. which is really a test run for my T2 and Leon region 1 dvd's since my dvd player isn't multiregion and is stuck on region 2 until I get arsed enough to get it chipped.

However... well, look at the time its taking for transcoding in the pics..

http://home.clara.net/mccasey/transcode1.png

http://home.clara.net/mccasey/transcode2.png

BOB

[slk001]

Yeah, ReMPEG2 is anything but a speed demon. How did you set this up in CCE?

[BOB]

Argh!
Computer resetted cos of my hollywood+ :(
I was about 30 hours away from the encode finishing too.
I wish there was someway to resume a transcode with rempeg if your machine suddenly reboots or something.
Erm, the settings I used for CCE was something like 9 pass etc
Can't remember exactly.

BOB