[MPlayer-users] Encoding taking too long?

[RC]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:43:01 +0200
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a 2.66GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB but when I'm mencoding a 5.9GB
> DVD: "mencoder dvd://1  -oac copy -vf crop=720:352:0:62,hqdn3d=2:1:2
> -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:au
> toaspect:vpass=1 -o Harry_Potter_2.avi" for 2 passes, it takes over 8
> hours. Is this usual? Thanks...

With *cmp=3...  8 hours doesn't sound unreasonable at all.  

If you want to speed it up, the quality should still be (nearly) as good
with those options left at their defaults, and MUCH faster.  At that
bitrate, you probably won't be able to see any difference.

Adding "turbo" will also speed up the process by perhaps 25% or so.