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dave268
23rd May 2005, 03:27
I have a PIII, 512 MB, 40 GB & 80 GB drives. I encode with CBR 2520 Highest quality settings, Downsample 48 -> 44.1. TMPGEnc encoder. Latest versions of encoder and DVD2SVCD. A 2 hr movie takes 16 - 18 hrs total. This seems awfully slow. Is there something/s I'm doing wrong ?
dave268
23rd May 2005, 13:37
Oops, PIII 1000 MHZ
jikchung
23rd May 2005, 14:25
Sounds about right as I remember. Highest quality setting is very slow in TMPGEnc.
tigerman8u
23rd May 2005, 19:19
Mainconcept is much faster than Tmpgenc. Just curious why you would want to go from dvd to svcd.
Nick
23rd May 2005, 20:15
But DVD2SVCD doesn't support MainConcept...
As for ehy he's doing DVD2SVCD, I'm guesiing he doesn't have a DVD player and wants a backup that will play on his set-top DVD player.

TMPGEnc is awfully slow.
Try QuEnc for size.
tigerman8u
23rd May 2005, 22:54
i apologize if I didn't make myself clear. What I meant was if "dave268" wanted a faster way to do this he could use Mainconcept as an alternative to Dvd2svcd.
dave268
24th May 2005, 00:33
Originally posted by Nick
But DVD2SVCD doesn't support MainConcept...
As for ehy he's doing DVD2SVCD, I'm guesiing he doesn't have a DVD player and wants a backup that will play on his set-top DVD player.

TMPGEnc is awfully slow.
Try QuEnc for size.

How much faster do you think it will be ? How does the encoding quality compare ? Where can I get QuEnc ? How much ? Thanks.
Rockas
26th May 2005, 00:41
How much faster do you think it will be ? How does the encoding quality compare ? Where can I get QuEnc ? How much ? Thanks.

Depends on your setting... but it can get you results in half of the time :)... the quality is usually good enough... HERE (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94813) ... nothing its FREE... you're welcome :cool:



ps. You can also try CCE (speed/quality can't be beaten using DS2ROBA) :D
dave268
27th May 2005, 03:38
Thanks. The encoding end of the SVCD creation process takes about 1/4 of the time of TMPGEnc (using 1 pass in QuEnc) with no apparent reduction in quality. Also I now get about 52 minutes on 1 CD where with TMPGEnc and CBR of 2520 I only got 41 minutes on 1 CD. So many thanks to Nic - Great guy - deserves a lot of credit for this superb software !