encoding speed

[bolke]

This must have been asked before,but I couldn't find much info about it.

I'm trying to make a DVD from a few avi's using The Filmmachine (first tested it with a single small file). I have no experience with this, but the conversion seems to be very slow. CCE reaches something between 0.5 and 0.8 speed. With HCEncoder (using "best") the whole process (4 avi's, a little under 4 hours in all) would have taken something like 13 hours.

Is that normal for a Pentium 4 2.8 512 MB ram, with all other programs closed?

Apart from that, after recently moving from a P3 to this P4 I'm not impressed at all. Ah well, at least the room is nice and warm now when the PC is running. :(

[bolke]

Yes, but is that a normal speed?

[influenza]

Seems to be very slow if you ask me. Usually I get speeds between 1,8 and 2,1 with CCE on my amd xp-m 2,5 Ghz (running at 2,5 overclocked) and 1024 MB ram.

If you're deinterlacing the speed will drop, but 0,5-0,8 is very slow.

[alfixdvd]

Seems to be slow. Usually I get speeds between 2.0 and 2.5 with CCE 2.70 on P4 2,8 with 1024 MB DDR400 and SATA HardDisk.

[bolke]

Thank you. That speed didn't seem normal. At least now I know I won't be telling nonsense when I go back to the shop to complain about it (the PC is brand-new). :thanks:

[movax]

More RAM could help somewhat. A 2.8C should be working a lot faster than that.

[bolke]

I can't get it to go any faster. there must be a weakness in the system somewhere. Is this info about the CPU like it should be?

[influenza]

are you using an avisynth script and if so, what's in it?

[bolke]

I don't change anything. It's what TFM uses by default.

[influenza]

My guess would be applied filters and deinterlacing slowing things down, but maybe you can paste the contents of the avs file(s) used.