[MPlayer-users] Encoding taking too long?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 11/8/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a 2.66GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB but when I'm mencoding a 5.9GB DVD:
> "mencoder dvd://1  -oac copy -vf crop=720:352:0:62,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -ovc
> lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vpass=1
> -o Harry_Potter_2.avi" for 2 passes, it takes over 8 hours. Is this
> usual? Thanks...

You may have a bad dvd on which your dvd reader chokes. Try to dump
the dvd track with:

mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.vob

and then replace "mencoder dvd://1 xx" with "mencoder movie.vob xx"

You may also wanna speed-up the encoding with appending "turbo" to the
encoding options of lavc.

Also, please remember that the time it takes to encode a video is
directly related to the total duration of the movie. If a movie is
long, so is the encoding.

Guillaume
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