[MPlayer-users] encoding is slow, is it normal for my system?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> I'm making a 3 pass encode from a dvd, the movie is 1h 15m long. The 3
> pass encoding on an athlon 500 with 256 megs of ram takes 7-9 hours. I'm
> using the following options:
>  mencoder -dvd 1 -pp 0x20000 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi
> mencoder -dvd 1 -pp 0x20000 -oac copy -lavcopts
> vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=1056:vhq:vpass=1
> and same as the above, except vpass=2.

you forgot -ovc lavc

and it probably uses divx4 by default, with unknown settings...

> Is my system slow, or is something wrong? By the way, is the latest
> divx4linux package (2002.04.18) supported? Last time, I have tried it
> crashed by encoding. Thx.

it is, i've encoded a 2cd vcd with it yesterday, anyway quality sucks
compared to lavc vhq


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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