On Sunday 20 February 2005 07:33, Mike Choy wrote: > 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.
I do two-pass encoding, the entire process takes about 2x the length of the movie on a dual Athlon MP 2000 system. I'd say 30 hours and 3.5fps isn't normal. > ----- 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? -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
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