Converting avis to mp4s. Anything faster than QT Pro?

[jive]

I have an Intel 17" iMac 2Gb and the encoding is painfully slow. Using automator it took me 30+ hours to encode 10 hours of media.


iSquint was faster but it was rubbish quality...

This isn't for use on my iPod.


jive

 

[balamw]

This isn't for use on my iPod.

What is it for then?

Recompressing already heavily compressed material is usually pretty complex since the encoder tends to spend a lot of time trying to reproduce compression artifacts that it has no idea are not part of the data.

If the AVI's are already MPEG-4/DivX you might just be able to demux/ and remux them as MP4/M4V.
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[steelfist]

tried isquint?

tried ffmpegX?

they should be faster.

 

[clevin]

I have an Intel 17" iMac 2Gb and the encoding is painfully slow. Using automator it took me 30+ hours to encode 10 hours of media.


iSquint was faster but it was rubbish quality...

This isn't for use on my iPod.


jive

I think You just need to manually increase the bitrate in iSquint. also, try ffmpegx's ffmpeg encoding.

 

[The Void]

MPEG Streamclip?

The Void
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[jive]

I'm using FFmpegX - it's going well. I can do around 30 episodes an hour which is fast enough for me.