Why does it take so long?

[Chewy]

Yes but it is supposed to be equal to a Intel 2ghz.

what's your available memory at idle?

[nwg]

what's your available memory at idle?

330MB out of 512MB.

[Chewy]

thanks nwg for confirming what I already knew

a lean clean video machine! drf take note

[jdobbs]

These times seem awfully long. I have an AMD XP 3200+ (2.2GHz) with 512MB of memory. I purposely use that computer because it's middle of the road -- because faster computers make lazy programmers (like me) fail to write efficiently.

Using 2 pass CCE it normally takes about 2 hours for an encode. For very long movies I've seen it go as high as 3 hours. HC takes about 50% longer.

I think the secret is HD usage. I created a separate partition for the video stuff and I keep it defragged.

[nwg]

A CCE 2 pass for me takes over 4 hours. I don't know the exact time. It has been like that since the first DVD-RB beta.

The 12 hours time was for Return of the King which is very long at 4 passes (I think).

[blutach]

@jdobbs - I find procoder is very long process. I'm not worried and I have an old machine AMD 1700! But it works.

Regards

[Demvang]

Cinderella Man (movie only + 2 audio tracks) -> 794 mins with ProCoder (mastering quality) on my AMD Athlon 1Ghz

[UncasMS]

ooops, that's long, demvang

time for a dualcore, isnt it?
*gg*

[jdobbs]

I like ProCoder's quality. But its just too slow for me. I guess, though, that when it's running overnight while you're sleeping it really doesn't matter, does it?

[blutach]

Not at all - my philosophy 100%

Regards

[gobama05]

It usually takes around 2 hours on my Athlon64 3500+ using cce with 2 passes. I have found that with 2 passes, the quality is outstanding. Using Nan's DgDecode.dll and using idct = 6, it seems to really fly. Of course, I would like to add another gig of Corsair pc3200 memory. I have a gig of it now. Those dual-core procs look really sweet. Oh well, I can dream about it till I can actually AFFORD to buy one

[techreactor]

I would strongly suggest everyone to check their avisynth filters, most of them do a good job but are not optimized for speed and are not SSE compatible.

Choose the ones which are SSE enabled for better speeds and since there are multiple filters available for a desired job for eg denoising etc, you have a choice.

[davewill]

Do you have to make an ISO file after using DVD-RB? I tried to burn the Video_ts folder using Nero and it errors out immediately while trying to reallocate files.

[techreactor]

No, ISO is totally optional, you should be able to burn the VIDEO_TS folder directly also.

[blutach]

Make an ISO and burn with ImgBurn. See if that works. Ner0 doesn't like 0 byte files - that could be the problem.

Regards