Why does it take so long to encode.

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Hi. I downloaded a movie that was in VCD format and I am trying to burn in with Nero 5.5. Before it starts to burn it does it's encoding first, and this is taking sooooooooo long. For example, I started it at 12:27 A.M., and it is now 10:55A.M., and it is only at 30%. What I want to know is it normal for it to take this long to do it. My computer is 800Mhz and I am running 256 Ram, would this have anything to do with it taking so long? I am also running XP Professional. Please help me, this is very frustrating.

Debbie

-- Debbie Knight (gonight@hotmail.com), April 07, 2004

Answers

I'm not an expert but I do know that encoding/burning is a long slow process. I would guess your hardware is the problem, your processor is slow and you don't have very much ram. Even with my 2600Mhz processor and 1gb ram, it take me a couple of hours to convert and burn a 700mb movie

-- Adrian Jacobs (adrianjacobs@hotmail.com), April 08, 2004.

Don't use Nero to encode. It's slow and it doesn't do a very good job. TMPGenc (http://www.tmpgenc.net) is a superior product. http://www.dvdrhelp.com has some guides on using TMPGenc.

-- Root (root@yahoo.moc), April 08, 2004.

The VCD format is bound to really strict standards. If your MPEG file is not compliant to the VCD standard, most "automated" programs like Nero will automatically re-encode it. My suggestion would be to use a program like TMPGENC to be sure your file is VCD compliant. That will keep nero from reencoding it, since Nero doesn't reencode MPEG files that are already VCD compliant.

Hope that helps.

-- Sébastien Noiseux (mailgarbage@caramail.com), April 14, 2004.


I have found the same problem in my AMD K6-2 400Mhz. To encode ten (10) minutes of video, it takes one hour! But I found the http://www.tmpgenc.net and vcdgear freeware. I hope that help.

-- Igor O. Ferreira (ioferreira@hotmail.com), April 18, 2004.

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