DVD2SVCD. Does it take that long?

[bOnKe]

I was going to convert at DVD to SVCD yesterday. It all went along fine until i saw the expected time for the convertion to finish: 62 hours!

My question is this: Is this correct or should I ignore this? It seems att bit much On the other hand it's a long movie, almost three hours... I use the highest quality setting with TMPGEncoder and the option "2-pass variable bitrate".

I have a Pentium III 500 Mhz with 256 Mb RAM...

Is the CinemaCraft Encoder faster than TMPG???

[Mac Sidewinder]

I have heard of people having that long of encode times. Try setting your quality level down to high instead of highest (you probably won't notice the difference). I encode on a 1.4Ghz P4 and usually average around 8 to 12 hours for a 1.5 to 2 hour movie so a 3 hour movie may take as long as 15-18 hours.

Mac

[bOnKe]

OKi... Thanks!

[Sean Turner]

Ripping times

I use smartripper to rip the DVD straight to HDD, then RipItAll to rip video only, smartripper again to rip ac3 soundtrack direct to a .ac3 file, and Nandub to merge (dub) and split the resulting avi.

These steps take, respectively:

20 minutes (after which you can give the DVD back to whoever it belongs to, usually video shop)
2-3 hours
20 minutes
<1 hour

Meaning I can rip while at lectures etc, etc.

This all on Athlon XP1500+ running Windows ME.

I have been meaning to write a script to do all this automatically, if anyone knows of one please tell me.

Otherwise, try it, get superior quality sound and stop waiting all day for rips!!

[Sean Turner]

Oops - sorry, didn't read orig message - SVCD may be a little slower, but must be faster than 12 hours surely - it's essentially the same format as DVD!!!