CCE Encode times

[Skinleech]

Hi all

I was recently re-encoding some dvd files following the "Getting the best out of CCE" guide. I noticed this when reading the guide:

"Luckily, if you have reasonable modern hardware you can expect faster than real-time encoding, especially when using Avisynth. I get like 1.45 real-time on an Athlon XP 1800 so the wait is not as insupportable as when using TMPG."

Now, I am running an athlon 1.3ghz, 1.2gb pc133 ram, Win2k SP3, and using Avisynth to frameserve. What sort of speeds should I be expecting on this system when encoding, as at present, I am getting about 0.65 and I wondered if this is poor?

Any assistance, tips, etc will be greatly appreciated. I really wonder what my speed should be, especially when I see this link on the forum:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5777&highlight=cce+time

[benf2]

There are a few variables to answering your question. Version of avisynth, which dll, which cce version, whats in your script. I am running an athlon 1.3 with 512mbddr with a raid using a basic script on version 2.07 to cce 2.66 and get around 1.17 give-or-take on the speed. When i say basic on the script..i just have setmemory to 250 and loadplugin, load my source(d2v) and finaly killaudio.

Hope this helps:)

[Skinleech]

Thanks for the reply benf2. I was writing my post on the sly at work, so I forgot to put in some info, and couldn;t get back online to add it!

I am running CCE 2.50, and Avisynth 2.05 (I think). My script is just the standard on the robshot guide, i.e.

LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\video\mpeg2dec_dll\mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("D:\Theoffice\1\Ep1\Ep1.d2v")
ResampleAudio(44100)

Any more assistance would be sweet - I obviously need to try a new version of Avisynth as it may help alot.

[jacobjef]

I top out at about 1.15-7, and I use a Pentium 4, 1.7ghz. That seems to be around what most get though.

[benf2]

A few suggestions for u ... change to 2.07, maybe switch to mpeg2dec2.dll, and version 2.66 cce. You can also try KillAudio() unless you are actually encoding the audio. And play with the SetMemoryMax() feature.... i have mine setmemorymax(250).

[Skinleech]

Thanks guys, I will see what I can do.

The help is appreciated.