Increasing speed in WME9?

[Benholio]

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone has any tips for increasing the encoding speed of WME9? I would like to know because on the second pass of a 2-pass encoding I average 8 fps! for my hardware, I feel this is way too low (using divx 5.0 pro it never goes lower than 30fps). I was told that closing all of the panes in the encoder would help and I have tried this with very little effect. Finally I dont know if this matters, I am going from a vob input and ac3 inpit directly to WME.


Ben

Extra info Below.

Encoder Settings:

1100 Kbps VBR
96Kbps WMA9 VBR
Complex Setting fro video
Deinterlace processing
720x480 input 640x480 output
Allow Non square pixels, Enabled
No cropping

My specs:

AXP 1800+
Nforce 415
512MB Ram
Radeon Vcard.