Encoding? - Club CDFreaks

realdeal99 · 02-06-2006

What is it and why does it take sooo long? Is there any way to speed it up?

**harley2ride** · 02-06-2006

Have you tried looking up video encoding on wikipedia or googling it? You can also learn about it at www.videohelp.com. For most purposes when you see encoding, and it has to do with video, it is converting avi to mpeg, or avi to divx, etc... It takes time, because it is doing a lot of processing, compression, and analysis. Figure that one second of video, is 29.97 frames. Ten seconds of video is 290.97 frames. So 2 hours of video, is one heck of a lot of frames...

wobble · 02-06-2006

And with programs like DVD Shrink it is not only encoding, it is decrypting and compressing everything to fit on one disc. If you are doing a movie leave all the extras out. Just doing the movie only can speed things up a bunch.

realdeal99 · 03-06-2006

So would I be better off when capturing video to capture it in MPEG2 instead of AVI? Would that speed up the encoding?

**TimC** · 03-06-2006

You should be able to immediately author it to DVD format , rather than have to encode it.

So yes , a considerable amount of time would be saved.

realdeal99 · 03-06-2006

Ahhhh! and really, no quality would be lost as it would be converted to mpeg2 anyhow.. correct?

**TimC** · 03-06-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by realdeal99

Ahhhh! and really, no quality would be lost as it would be converted to mpeg2 anyhow.. correct?

Correct.

*_chef_* · 03-06-2006

Clearly, it is transcoding.

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harley2ride Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,461	Re: Encoding? Have you tried looking up video encoding on wikipedia or googling it? You can also learn about it at www.videohelp.com. For most purposes when you see encoding, and it has to do with video, it is converting avi to mpeg, or avi to divx, etc... It takes time, because it is doing a lot of processing, compression, and analysis. Figure that one second of video, is 29.97 frames. Ten seconds of video is 290.97 frames. So 2 hours of video, is one heck of a lot of frames... __________________ Rob C2D E6550,3gb DDR2-800mhz,150gb 10000rpm raptor,320gb sata,geforce 8800 gt, Vista Premium, 22" Samsung LCD,Samsung bluray DVD reader\dvd\rw16x, Samsung S203N, ADS Pyro A/V Link,Klipsch Pro-Media 5.1 SS Dell P4 3.4GHZ 2GB PC533 DDR XP PRO SP2 w/ADS Pyro Firewire card,160GB Sata, 250GB ATA133, ATI 2600XT HD/ DELL 20" LCD/ ALS 251 5.1 Speakers / Audigy 2 ZS Platinum / Plextor PX716A / MD (NEC3500) 2FD firmware

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wobble Gone but not forgotten Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Dark Side of the Moon Posts: 1,624	Re: Encoding? And with programs like DVD Shrink it is not only encoding, it is decrypting and compressing everything to fit on one disc. If you are doing a movie leave all the extras out. Just doing the movie only can speed things up a bunch.

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realdeal99 CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 30	Re: Encoding? So would I be better off when capturing video to capture it in MPEG2 instead of AVI? Would that speed up the encoding?

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TimC Moderator Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Posts: 7,498	Re: Encoding? You should be able to immediately author it to DVD format , rather than have to encode it. So yes , a considerable amount of time would be saved.

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