Can somebody help me?

[jadafa]

I've read that everyone should be getting for CCE encoding 0.3~1.6 on the average...however, I screwed up somewhere and it's giving me an average of 0.08 for speed. So right now, I have another 50 some hours of encoding left, and I've already wasted 16 hours (for a nice total of 66 hours). Did I do something wrong?

I'm using Multi-pass VBR of 4. Is this what's making it so long?

The movie is only 89 minutes long with only dolby-digital 2.0 audio at 192kbps. I audio downsampled from 48->44.1 (the audio encoding took about 12 hours to do...is that right?).

I don't know...something is amiss...and it's pissing me off.

I have a AMD Thunderbird 900MHz (non-overclocked) with 128MB SDRam running under WinXP. I followed everything that was in the DVD2SVCD guide. Why is the encoding time so slow then?

Should I be getting a faster processor? Is this normal?

I've read the DMA needs to be turn on. I can do this under Win9x and ME, but WinXP doesn't allow DMA to be turned on, or am I missing something?

I'm kinda jealous that everyone usually can finish their SVCD's within 12 hours. :( I've been waiting a day now and I have 2 more days to wait!

[DDogg]

first thing is bring your ram up to 256 minimum. See the Q&A on this subject. Ram is cheap.

[Bob01605]

WinXP doesn't allow DMA to be turned on, or am I missing something?

I believe you can turn DMA on and off in the SETUP menu of Windows XP - You can't do it in the Properties menu like Win 98 - DMA ( direct memory access ) should be turned ON for best performance and DDogg is correct - DVD2SVCD is slowed a great deal ( CCE especially ) when it hampered by having to work with only 128 meg of Ram.

Bob

[DDogg]

"WinXP doesn't allow DMA to be turned on, or am I missing something?
"

I think so, choose device manager>IDE>Primary IDE Channel>advanced settings

Set to "DMA if available"

Current transfer mode should show you in dma mode