Why does it take so long?

[davewill]

I made it work with Shrink by adjusting the quality settings. I'll try your suggestions with the next one.

Thanks!

[Lownox]

I just used DVD-RB to backup Ciderella Man, A 2:10 min movie using HC16 on the Best setting in 259 mins. I don't think that was too long. Please give feed back and opiniions

[techreactor]

I completed a 2:56 (176 min) encode in 287 min with Normal quality using AVS script. Results were acceptable to me, seeing a 7.6 GB to 4.36 GB reduction (56.2% reduction).

The tweaking of the avs script + DVD-RB with HC helped to optimize the speed with decent quality, in this case.

[UncasMS]

I just used DVD-RB to backup Ciderella Man, A 2:10 min movie using HC16 on the Best setting in 259 mins. I don't think that was too long. Please give feed back and opiniions

an encoder takes its time and that's fine

comparing speeds is difficult as two films with an identical running time may still be different (e.g. due to aspect ratios etc) but on my system (A64-3500/1gb ram) for example a 161 min title took 213 min with hc 016 in BEST mode

[blutach]

Well, the complexity of each frame is important (as is NTSC vs PAL), but the number of frames (and therefore running time) is a key element to speed.

Wish I could achieve those speeds. Just did a Taken disk - almost 3 hours running time - with Procoder 2, Mastering Quality. Almost 9 hours to finish. By god, it came out great though. Thanks jdobbs (and canopus )

Regards

[UncasMS]

procoder is indeed not the fastest but especially for heavy reduction it gives me way better results than anything else

i did kingdom hospital 1-4 these days

~160 min / dvd took me 347 (used the pc for some time while encoding), 297, 299 and 316 min using procoder2

[blutach]

I had huge reduction in all the 5 Takens - 7.5Gb+ to 4.36Gb Hard word for the encoder Worth the wait.

Regards

[UncasMS]

-d +k

[Demvang]

ProCoder2 is slow compared to CCE because it starts up with the speed it's supposed to be, then about 1/3 or midpoint of the process, the speed starts to drop. It doesn't keep its speed like CCE, has anyone noticed this?

[UncasMS]

it is normal that the first pass has different speeds than pass 2

[jdobbs]

Can't speak for ProCoder -- but for encoders in general, it isn't that unusual. Usually during the first pass they collect information, but don't necessarily have to write an MPEG file. Sometimes instead they write to an intermediate file (keeping collected information from the pass). HC is the opposite -- it is faster on the second pass.