less than snail's pace

[jackel]

I'm having the same problem with both GK and AutoGK: a 5% compression test is estimated to take more than 8 hours, and Nandub is estimating that a first encoding pass will take 43 days. So of course I've never completed a job using either bundle. Does anyone have any idea what can be causing the problem?

[jggimi]

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

AutoGK is XviD or DivX 5, GK also can do DivX 3.11a SBC. Your mentioning Nandub leads me to think you're looking at the latter.

We can only make the most rudimentary guesses with what you've provided so far. More information will help us to help you. Some of these apply to GK only, but obviously, things like: The codec you are using Your codec settings Number of frames in your content Resolution Filters (noise, smoothing, IVTC or Deinterlacing)Yes, something is wrong, but it's not easy to tell exactly what, so far.

If you'd like to produce GK or AGK logs, you can always work with smaller content, for example, using just a single chapter from a DVD rather than an entire film.

[jackel]

Thanks for the welcome. You're right, I'm using DivX3.11a. The film (87 minutes long) has approx. 126,000 frames; resolution 608x464; bits/(pixel*frame) 300. As for my codec settings, I don't know the answer to that one. Where do I look? I'm trying to produce a 2-CD AVI at an average bitrate of 1981 kBit/s. I might add that I'd had some success earlier with DVDtoOGM and DVX, but both of them have recently stopped working for me, with different symptoms from each other and from this GK problem. BTW, the 43 day-estimate has now shortened, after 1.5 hours (and 1% completed),to a comparatively lightning-fast 3 days 13 hours. If this info isn't helpful (I mean, to me, with a small amount of experience and minimal technical know-how, those figures don't look unusual), I'd better take your other piece of advice and try to produce a log file with a very small VOB.

[jackel]

Does this help? It's AutoGK's log of an aborted coding, terminated after 14 hours

[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Input dir: C:\36Fillette\VIDEO_TS
[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Output file: C:\36Fillette\VIDEO_TS\36fillette.avi
[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Audio: Japanese
[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Subtitles: none
[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Codec: DivX
[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Target size: 1400Mb
[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Custom audio settings: VBR MP3 with average bitrate: 144Kbps
[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Started encoding.
[6/7/2004 5:33:15 PM] Demuxing and indexing.
[6/7/2004 5:37:49 PM] Analyzing source.
[6/7/2004 5:37:49 PM] Writing the following script to C:\36Fillette\VIDEO_TS\gk_tmp\lastjob.vcf
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VirtualDub.Open("C:\\36Fillette\\VIDEO_TS\\gk_tmp\\_.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.RemoveInputStreams();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\36Fillette\\VIDEO_TS\\gk_tmp\\_.avi");
===========================================================
[6/8/2004 7:51:06 AM] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 37.61
[6/8/2004 7:51:06 AM] Source has percentage of telecined patterns: 32.73
[6/8/2004 7:51:06 AM] Source has percentage of progressive patterns: 30.64
[6/8/2004 7:51:06 AM] Source has percentage of interlaced patterns: 36.63
[6/8/2004 7:51:06 AM] Source is considered to be hybrid (mostly NTSC).
[6/8/2004 7:51:06 AM] Writing the following script to C:\36Fillette\VIDEO_TS\gk_tmp\lastjob.vcf
===========================================================
VirtualDub.Open("C:\\36Fillette\\VIDEO_TS\\gk_tmp\\_test.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.RemoveInputStreams();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\36Fillette\\VIDEO_TS\\gk_tmp\\_test.avi");
===========================================================
[6/8/2004 7:51:06 AM] Looking for optimal hybrid thresholds.
*************************************
EXCEPTION: Job aborted
*************************************
[6/8/2004 10:35:04 AM] Job finished.

[jggimi]

126,000 frames is between 70 and 87 minutes of content, depending on your framerate. I could imagine that with a relatively old PC and a lot of noise reduction filters you could see a 24 hour encoding, but as that doesn't appear to be the case, based on the little we know so far, I'm betting that something is wrong with the performance of your PC.

It could be anything, such as a hardware problem (e.g.: CPU cache disabled), an operating system problem (e.g.: virtual memory disabled), or most likely, other software running that is consuming CPU or memory resources without your knowledge.

We don't yet know the version of Windows you are running, nor your PC skill level; but if you're running any of the Windows NT based versions (Win NT/2000/XP) the task manager can show you all processes sorted by either CPU consumption or memory consumption. Have you looked there to see what else is running, and how much resource is being consumed?

I don't believe you are having problems with GK. That's because you mentioned having performance difficulties with AutoGK, which requires no deep knowledge, and you are also reporting problems with other tools such as DVX.

Regarding codec settings -- that applied to XviD and/or DivX 5, which was not applicable to your GK problem, and is automated for you with AutoGK.

If you're wondering why I keep asking about things you have neglected to mention, it's because without more information, everything is just conjecture. Click on http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19566 for a guide to the kinds of information you might consider posting. It's from another forum here, but will help you understand the kinds of things forum members might need to be able to help you.

[EDIT: Just saw your post with the log (I'm a slow typist) and I don't see anything obvious in it.]