General Overall Timeline for DVD2SVCD's Completion

[stevecslee]

Hope there aren't any duplicates. I apologize in advance if there are any duplicates. :( I have tried to search as best as I could but didn't see one. :confused: I'm trying to find out the general and typical overall time of how long it takes for DVD2SVCD to convert a movie from beginning to end with both CCE and TMPGenc as encoders, on different platforms of CPU's. I understand that depending on the settings, times vary but I'm not looking for specific settings. I just wanted to see the comparison between the two encoders under different settings, preferably under P4 2.0~2.8 and Athlon 1700+~2000+. If there is any thread that covered this, again I do apologize to all for wasting your time. And I'd appreciate any reference to any existing threads so I may get that info. If not, I'd also appreciate any input to these time lines if you have any. What I would like to see are brief settings description, platform information with peripherals, such as ram and type of ram, hard drive type, etc.

Thanks again in advance for any assistance. :D

Sincerely

Chong

[manono]

Hi-

Here's a Huge Thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5777) on times to encode. This is CCE only and therefore just the encoding portion. The numbers given are for real time (=RT). The real total encoding time depends partly on how many passes you do. If you have a choice, I'd recommend CCE over TMPG-way faster and they say CCE has better quality (I've never used TMPG).

In addition to the encoding time, you have the ripping time, audio extraction, subs, muxing, splitting, etc. Also, many of those times given are for the fastest possible conditions (Simple Resize, Force Film (if NTSC), wide screen movie, no extra filters). So if you use a different resizer, full screen movie, IVTC, add Convolution 3d to the script, etc., then the times given can skyrocket. So, it's kind of hard to tell you how long it takes.

[stevecslee]

Thanks manono for that input. I just wanted to clarify one little thing. I didn't want to know how long it would take me to convert it (with the different settings that I have for my options I understand that no one can give me a specific time frame), but how long it has taken the rest of us to do it under their settings and preferences with their computers. I know this is too general and maybe I'm asking for too much. I just needed your (all of you) numbers for my reference. Do you, manono, happen to have any time frame of how long it took you to convert any of your movies? Would you care to share your experience? I'd appreciate any info on that.

Thanks again!!:p

[stevecslee]

Oh, I forgot to add, the numbers of threads where people have described the RT for their CPU's? I didn't quite understand/know how to calculate in terms of let's say a whole movie.

Sorry about that.

[manono]

Hi-

Well, CCE gives the RT figure to you as you encode. It builds up at the beginning of each pass and then stays fairly stable. 1 RT means it's encoding at the same speed as the movie. Put another way, if you ForceFilmed, or IVTC'd and the frame rate is 23.976, then 1 RT means you're encoding at approximately 23.976fps.

As for the total time. I'll get a little over 2.0 RT in CCE when I'm set up to do it as fast as possible (SimpleResize, widescreen movie, ForceFilm, no other filters). So, each pass of a 100 minute movie takes about half that (around 50 minutes a pass). If I'm doing VBR 4 passes, then the encoding alone takes around 200 minutes (3 hours and 20 minutes). Add in 10 minutes for the video ripping, 30 minutes for the audio ripping and decoding, DVD2AVI for 10 minutes or so, subs if you're doing them, the stuff at the end after the encoding. All this in addition to the encoding might give me a total of around 5 hours or so. If the film is longer, full screen, or I throw in some Temporal Smoothers, use LanczosResize, do IVTC, then the time goes up from there. That's a best case scenario on my system (P4 Northwood 1.8A Ghz OC'd to 2.48 Ghz and good RAM, etc.) Give it a try. DVD2SVCD (combined with Doom9's Guide) is a very good program on which to learn.

Edited later to fix typos and to provide more detail.

[stevecslee]

Wow!! Thanks Manono for that detailed reply. That actually answered some of the technical questions I had, but couldn't find out anywhere else (or probably didn't quite understand)!! I'm gonna keep testing it out on my P4 2.0GHz system and see what other results I get.

Thanks again!!

:p

:D