Every minute of video takes 25 minutes to encode with TMPGenc???

[sumptor]

I've tested several DVD compliant MPEG2 encoding software and have found TMPGenc to be the best quality wise. Great piece of software. I ran a bunch of tests over the weekend with several AVI clips and converted them over to NTSC DVD files. After crunching through the numbers, I found that on average for every 1 minute of video that you're encoding, it takes approximately 25 minutes to perform the actual encode. So a 1 hour video would take over a day to encode. Seems awfully long. Is this right or am I missing something here??

Here are the parameters that I used.

Original AVI clip was captured in Huffyuv at 720x480 resolution, YUY2 and 48 kHz, 16-bit stereo.
Conversion was to a NTSC DVD compliant MPEG2 file using the 2-pass VBR method at 6000 average, 8000 max and 2000 min kbps.
Encoding quality was set to highest in the bottom pull down menu. No filters used.
PC is a 1.2 GHz Athlon using two separate 7200 rpm drives (one as the source drive and the other the destination drive)

Just wanted to see if other users were getting similar results.

[avih]

yes, it's possible. the reasons are the 2-pass and the quality.
many ppl found 'normal' to be not so much different from 'highest' but 'normal' is much faster.

[WarpEnterprises]

(As avih said)
relative speed is: normal ~ 3, high quality ~2 highest ~1
For most sources there are (very) small difference between normal and high, but ~none between high and highest (see the Q-level in bitrate viewer).
And of course the time is proportional to the area (=final resolution) encoded! (VCD = triple speed compared to SVCD)

And with your average nearly equal the max there is not very much gain in using 2pass.

[Pyre8]

That makes me happy ... to be using CCE for the encodes:D