Length of Time for DVD2SVCD to Finish

[ron spencer]

Just tried my first project with this fine prog. Target is LOTR's the Fellowship of the Ring NON-EXTENDED version. I would like to put it on DVD. So I started running it. CCE started at 9:30pm. At 7:00am the next day (9.5 hrs later) it still said it had 18.5 hrs. to complete!!! This would be a total of 28 hours before any muxing occurs!!!. I am using a PIII 866 with 512 megs of RAM. Should it take this long to re-encode onto a single DVD (I stopped the process to ask the forum here). It seems a bit long without knowing if the process will work or not. Any insight here? Is the re-encode THAT good? I am using 4 pass CCE.

Thanks

[jsoto]

Hi ron spencer,

Well, you can reduce by 4 the encoding time with Tylo's D2SRoBa plugin (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64825), (only one pass OPV, similar quality than 4 pass). To save time, its better for you to don't do the sizing pass (quality is not affected), so select a CD size a little bit lower than 4350.

But, yes, CCE takes its time, but IMHO, with long movies like yours, it is the right choice.

jsoto

EDIT:
In fact Blank DVD sizes (from www.mrbass.org) are
Blank DVD-R 4489MB
Blank DVD+R 4483MB
so 4350 is a safe value.

[morey]

give mainconcept a go,i use it on 2 pass and with all the motion settings set correctly the quality is amazing .im running p111550
and im getting 6hrs to encode 1hr so most films can be done overnight plus it will run in the background easyly even while playing games ect.
just look in the dvd2svcd movie folder and load the avisynth file and the encoded audio

[ron spencer]

Thanks....are they any issues that can crop up over the course of encoding? If I am going to run this thing for over a day I do not want it to be fruitless. Any problems that people may want to share?

RS

[Venom_IL]

well.. have you tried D2SRoba or not ?

If you have, and that is too slow for you as well, you might want to try CBR encoding

also, i believe changing the image quality priority and bias options accordingly would reduce encoding time, at the possible cost of quality of course

[r6d2]

Originally posted by Venom_IL
If you have, and that is too slow for you as well, you might want to try CBR encoding
CBR is not significantly faster than OPV.

also, i believe changing the image quality priority and bias options accordingly would reduce encoding time
These have no impact on speed either.

If a 4 pass CCE (which is 5 passes actually) takes 28 hours on his PIII 900, that's 5.6 hours per pass, on a 3 hour movie that's RT 0.5.

D2Sroba may reduce that to 5.6 hours, optionally 11.2 with sizing pass. But that's pretty much it, unfortunately.

My Celeron 1.8 gives me about RT 1.0 on unfiltered sources.

[ron spencer]

Thanks for the posts....havne't tried D2SRoba but it looks like even with that it will take 12 hrs if I use a sizing pass....still faster than 4 pass CCE (5 pass as was pointed out).

Has anyone compared D2SRoba to DVDShrink or Nero Recode with deep analysis?

-ron

[r6d2]

Originally posted by ron spencer
Has anyone compared D2SRoba to DVDShrink or Nero Recode with deep analysis?

That's actually a encoder/transcoder comparison. Try this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62858) guide to make an educated guess.

[Venom_IL]

Thanks for correcting me, r6d2. will know better next time :sly: