[MEncoder-users] mencoder slow

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 03 February 2008 00:49, Troy Perkins wrote:

> The frame rates looked good hours ago at about 27 fps.  It's been
> running for over 10 hours now and I noticed the frame rates on both
> have dropped to 1.2 frames per second and the times to finished have
> dramatically increased.

Did perhaps the first pass complete and the encoding move on to the 
second pass? With the turbo option, the first pass skips all the CPU 
expensive optimizations.