space needed to encode in divX502pro

[dahkiam]

I had 30 GB free on my 3rd partition and after I launched an encode (progress 16%) free space had droped to 14 GB, a previous encode saw that I ran out of disk space, could someone point me to where the problem is, I had less free space than that when encoding with 502 normal and encoding ran fine.

TIA

[N_F]

Are you sure you're really using DivX? Sometimes I've by mistake checked uncompressed video instead which will give you a huge file. Could that be it?

On the other hand, if you're using Gordian Knot this shouldn't be possible.

[manono]

Hi-

Sometimes I've by mistake checked uncompressed

Sometimes I forget to choose any codec at all with the same result. Funny, eh, the mistakes that supposedly experienced people can make sometimes? But he's saying, if I read it correctly, that he's used up 16 GB on 16% of the movie, or around 100 GB for the full movie. Do even uncompressed files get that big?

[N_F]

Originally posted by manono
Sometimes I forget to choose any codec at all with the same result.

That's actually what I meant. I was a bit misleading when I used the word 'check' I guess. A similar things happen now and then when I work with MPEGs. If you forget to change it to 'no sound' and leave it at direct stream copy you'll end up with an uncompressed audio file in your resulting video file.

100 GB for a full movie sound a bit too much for me too, but it was the only thing I could think off.

[hakko504]

Sure, no problem, 720x480x29.97x90x60=55'931'212'800 pixels, at 3 bytes a piece = 167'793'638'400 bytes = 163'860'975 kB = 160'020 MB = 156,3 GB.

@N_F
I deleted your double post.

[N_F]

Heh... you deleted it just as I was editing it giving me an error :)

[hakko504]

:devil: That's life, you can't win 'em all.. :rolleyes:

[dahkiam]

thank you all for your response, problem was vDub had uncompressed video selected as codec...

now everything is back to normal, encoding second pass at this very moment and still a lot a free space on the HDD

cheers people