[mythtv-users] How long should it take to transcode a DVD to xvid?

[Phil Bridges]

I tried my first DVD rip last night.  After a couple of minutes of 
making sure I had mtd running, I put in the DVD, and it ripped to my 
hard drive fine (in less than 15 minutes).  I chose "Good" quality, with 
subtitiles and AC3 audio.  When it started off, Myth estimated about 4 
hours to encode.  Over time, that increased to 12 or so hours.  I went 
to bed, and when I woke the display said that mtd had stopped running. 
Argh.

I sshed to my MythBox this morning, and tried to transcode via command line:
transcode -i /foo/bar  -g 720x480 -f 0,1 -M 2 -V -y xvid -A -N 0x2000 -o 
/var/video/movies/foo.avi --print_status 20 --color 0 -R 2,twopass.log

Originally, the EMT (estimated time of what?) showed a couple of hours. 
 Now, it's at 30 hours and counting, at 3.52 fps.  Surely it shouldn't 
take this long, should it?

I'm running FC2, Myth 0.17, AMD 1600+.  Any tips to speed this up a little?
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