encoding xvid w/ handbrake - how long?

[sohaness]

hi folks,

im encoding a dvd that i ripped with handbrake, and im wondering how long - on average - this is supposed to take?

i've ripped the main feature w/ mac the ripper and it comes in at about 5 gigs.

im then encoding it with handbrake / mediafork as an xvid with 128 mp3 audio for a target file size of 700 megs. outputting at a resolution of 640x480. its estimating 3 hours!!
im running a mac pro xeon 3ghz w/ 4 gigs of ram.

3 hours...is this normal???

thanks!
steve.

 

[contoursvt]

Hmmm that sounds like a very long time to me but to be honest, when I tried encoding it was on a totally different platform and software but I recall it taking about an hour and a half on a P4 3.0 with hyperthreading on XP Pro encoding Divx (and not Xvid) at default settings with a resolution of 640x480. Also for software I was using something called DVDx.

hi folks,

im encoding a dvd that i ripped with handbrake, and im wondering how long - on average - this is supposed to take?

i've ripped the main feature w/ mac the ripper and it comes in at about 5 gigs.

im then encoding it with handbrake / mediafork as an xvid with 128 mp3 audio for a target file size of 700 megs. outputting at a resolution of 640x480. its estimating 3 hours!!
im running a mac pro xeon 3ghz w/ 4 gigs of ram.

3 hours...is this normal???

thanks!
steve.

 

[sohaness]

it seems to only take this long when encoding from a VIDEO_TS directory on the hard drive.

when i use handbrake to rip and encode off the dvd disc in one shot, it only takes about 30 minutes.

odd...

 

[winchest]

That is bizarre. Could it be that particular movie that was ripped as well or is it faster from DVD with that movie? I have had issues with some files more so than others with the current handbrake beta.

 

[nurfen]

Just make sure not to read and write to the same drive. This is the reason it's going much faster when ripping on-the-fly.

 

[Trekkie]

Use h.264 instead! Sorry I just hate having to search for something compatible with my Apple TV and only finding these other encoders out there.

I keep hoping handbrake will enable Xgrid somehow. That'd be fun.