TMPGenc taking REALLY long time, why?

[Stabmaster-Arson]

Ive tried a couple verisons, and same result, usually taking a really really seriously long time. Im talking about 12 hours to encode a 352x480 mpeg 2video thats 5 minutes long. This is on a dual P3 800.

I tried on my shiny new Dual Athlon mp 2600+ system with same result. The cpu's will go 100% for a while, then fall back to almost 0% cpu time. This makes encoding a whole movie impossible, and short clips very painful.

I have tried with the huffyuv source, also I have tried with avisynth 2.07

avisource("x:\movie.avo")
and as

avisource("x:\movie.avo").converttoyuy2

(Just in case the colorspace matered)

Same result. How come, and how can I fix it? I got my dual 2600 MP's and I want to be able to use them! Thanks.

[Erik_Osterholm]

Are you using any of TMPGEnc's built in filters? Those will slow down an encode tremendously. Use AVISynth's instead.

If that's not the case, I don't know what the problem is.

[sky_dave]

I have the same problem, so i move to CCE, and the problem is reduced.
But I love "mpeg tools" in Tmpgenc, still using it.

[ultradna]

Try this :

a) Some TMPG versions have a bug, so it takes a 4x longer time to encode a file.

b) When you load the file(s) go to the Template settings (!!!: First load the video/audio files, then load the template, then go to the template settings);

ADVANCAED :

1) Go to Source Range, double-click!

2) Move to "Start-Frame" & then "Click Set-Start-Frame"

3) Then move the slider to right (to the end) and then klick on "Set End Frame) , now TMPG knows how long the file is and should show you the correct time (and work proporly)

Cheers