encoded "neil peart - a work in progress" dvd using procoder 2, took 349 mins and it used about 90% of the cpu, the video is 3 hours 53 mins incl extras.... then encoded acdc - stiff upper lip live using cce 3 pass mode and it used about 85% of the cpu and took 213 mins, the video is 2 hours 19 mins with extras... would encoding be faster if i went to bios and disabled hyperthreading so it used the whole cpu? i now about dualdvdrb but i cant get the damn thing to work correctly... tried it with hc and the second instance tried to encode what the first one was encoding (yes followed diff directory instructions) wouldnt work with quenc either.... cpu is 2.4c at 3.0 on a 250mhz fsb, thanks
I never disabled my hyperthreading..... I get great times for a DVD-RB user, anywhere from 59-112-120mins..... some of those movies are over 2-3 hours long..... the speed of your computer is the culpret... your times sound about right for the computer you are using. I don't think that turning off your hyperthreading will increase your times significantly. I could be wrong though.
if you are using the pro version $ the actual program dualdvdrb they will not run correctly together the prog has been successfully incorporated into dvd-rb ver 1.07 I believe! as far as ht being enabled! it can only have positive effects or none @ all ( at least in my exp's) the simplest way to nudge down those times would be to improve upon your memory (ram)! w/ the new dual core I'm getting times of < 1 1/5 hrs w/ hc running dual! the old 3.0 w ht enabled I got times or about 2-2/15 hrs w/ hc! procoder2 well I say your times are around par for the system! it's a trade off for the quality! please elaborate on the dual dvd-rb prob's it's creating the [bold]exact[/bold] mkv files?? what movie? luvs it!
movies listed above.... what im trying to figure out is how to use CCE by hand and have dvd rebuilder do a "rebuild" using the files i encoded, so it will redo everything with the menu's etc.... i find i can get better results doing it by hand with other encoders, but dvd-rb does something weird..... i put the resulting .m2v files into the DVD-rb working folder and hit "rebuild" and it just never works...wtf... everytime i hot "rebuild" it starts to encode the damn thing and erases the m2v files.... right now i'm encoding a section from the movie "heat"....the part where they walk out of the bank and the shootout begins, lots of fast movement... it's chapter 32 and 33 on the dvd.... used smartripper to rip just those 2 chapters, it's a 5 min 56 second section, using CCE with a VBR 2 pass mode of 3100kb/sec it comes out awesome.... i determined this bitrate using a calculator, i just want dvd-rb to use the resulting files to rebuild the dvd....any ideas? or do i have to just let dvd-rb to it all on it's own and leave the result to chance
hmmm... i just did the whole movie of heat (2 hrs 43 mins) and it only took 160mins with 3 pass cce... came up saying only a 1hr 36 min movie, obviously something went wrong...
dvd rebuilder can actually be used in 1,2,or three click mode. say if you want to use the editer you can just do a prepare edit out content and then hit rebuild this will encode and rebuild in one step! that feature is what is stopping you! as far as leaving it to chance you can use rb-opt plugin to adjust your bitrates! and rockas matrix editor to configure matrices,and filters! if that's not more than enough you could try setting your ini file to start encode on say the last file and let it rebuild your files if you don't get errors, it may work! but those two plug-ins (mastered) will give you plenty of options and they are pretty user friendly!
