AVI TO SVCD average conversion time??

[Knoxy]

Hi,

I've just recently started using DVD2SVCD for converting my AVI Films
to SVCD format. I've used some of the comprehensive DOOM9 step by step guides which are excellent.

The question I need to ask is how long should it take in theory to convert a 1.4GB AVI file using DVD2SVCD's latest version?

The original file was split into to two but I consolodated into one file then tried to covert using DVD2SVCD everything went well upto the Cinema Craft Video encoded part where approximately 4.5 hours had gone and it was only at 1% encoded so I basically gave up and stopped.

I've tried cutting the film into a 10MB part to see what the quality was like before converting the 1.4GB file and I was impressed. But the length of time to video encode was shocking! am I doing something wrong?

This is the file information:

Video stream

Frame size 576x240 23.976 fps
No of frames 207647
Decompressor DIVX 5.0.2 Codec

Audio stream

Sampling rate 44100Hz
Channels 2 stereo
Compression MPEG Layer 3 Codec

The specification of my P.C. is quite good e.g. 1.3ghz AMD Athlon
asus motherboard 512DDR memory 40gb harddrive WIN XP Pro etc so I dont think thats a problem I think its the file I'm trying to covert.

Please help!

Thanks

[ppera2]

With your machine you should have encoding speed over 1.0 (faster than realtime).

I don't use DVD2AVI, but made conversions AVI (DivX) to SVCD with AVISynth as frameserver and CCE 2.66 . It works very fast...

To answer what is error by you need more details, but I suggest to you to try this methode with real simple AVISynth script.

AviSource("G:\Avi.avi")
BicubicResize(480,416)
AddBorders(0,80,0,80) #this of course depends of source AR

[abman]

I also have speed issues in CCE. I'm only getting 1.5 or so on my Xeon 2.8ghz. An athlon 1.3 should get about what I'm getting, I should get way more. Try running CCE on the avi not through DVD2SVCD and see what speed reading you get.

I'm also running winxp pro... I don't use dvd2svcd though, I do things the old fashioned way through avisynth and vdub. Wish I could help, but I have no clue why its slow for me either.