Phil I have the same problem, not sure if this is normal as well? Sempron 2400, On surfing around people seem to be able todo rips in 4 to 6 hours in total.
Mike Choy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Bridges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:39 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] How long should it take to transcode a DVD to xvid? > 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? > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
