Stupid Question, mpeg2 encoders

[drewbert1973]

Hiya,

Really stupid question before new year. I do a lot of DVD 'backups' and editing and authoring, I run a dual MP2200+ system with 240gig Raid and 1gig DDR 2100 memory.

My question is this, I have an old DVB sat card and an Mpeg 1 encoder card and wondered if there were any cheap mpeg2 encoder cards on the market that will speed up my encode times even further, I use all the reencoders (TMPEGENC, CCE2.5, CCE2.66 and ReMpeg2).

Also is CCE 2.5 or/and 2.66 dual processor enabled (I know avisynth and VFAPI isnt).

And slightly off topic, I know every one wants a working way to renecode with CCE and IFOEDIT but just a thought, if you use DVD Decrypter to backup the main movie and demux and you end up with a large (bigger than 4.7 gig file) m2v file, is there any way to get CCE to accept the m2v file to reencode, I know TMPEGENC will without frameserving (Avisynth etc). I know this wont fix the CCE/IFOEDIT problem but it would save a lot of messing when reauthoring.

Happy New Year you guys and gals, keep up the excellent work on advice etc.

Drewbert

[HomerJ]

so drewbert, are you trying to save hours, minutes or seconds ???

HomerJ

[drewbert1973]

as much time as possible. Have I posted this in the wrong place, I normally get loads of replies, perhaps its my stupid questionj but people please help me.

[HomerJ]

Drewbert,

I think your in the right forum, it's just that your questions are a bit non-specific.

Also, looking at your current setup, you must be getting some good figures already (but you don't say what).

I have a P4 2Ghz and frameserving to CCE I can do a 2hr movie in about 1hr 45 mins.

I must admit, I'm never sure what all the fuss is about in getting Ifoedit to accept a CCE encode file, when a good authoring package suits just as well (if not better)

I use Spruce Up, the only problem there is it takes about 1hr to create a title set.

As for the hardware card, I'm afraid I don't know of any "cheap" cards. Most seem to start at about £300 upwards, and even then I'm note sure they'll do the job your looking for.

HomerJ

[drewbert1973]

Cheers, I know my questions are a bit all over.

Ive been trying to find out about the Haughpage PVR 250 which says iut has hardware encoder, will this increase the speed of my encodes.

Also, any thoughts on the m2v to m2v conversion using CCE without frameserve.

Please help guys.

[HomerJ]

Drewbert,

What's wrong with frameserving ?

Suggest you post your CCE question on the CCE section to get a better reply.

HomerJ

[auenf]

http://www.tecoltd.com/enctest/enctest.htm

Enf...

[HomerJ]

Enf,

Great site, lots of reading to do there.

How do you do it ??

HomerJ :)