quicking up dvd2svcd

[farricker]

at the moment it takes around 8 hours to do everything using dvd2scvd (chickenmans method) on my pc (pentium III 866, 128ram) just wondering is there any thing i can do to quicken the processes, either by the software itself or by upgrading. Any ideas would be welcome
thanks farricker.

 

[celtic_druid]

A faster CPU or CPU's and more RAM should make a big difference.

 

[ChickenMan]

There a few things you can do:

1. Make sure you use D2VRoBa option with DVD2SVCD (see latest DVD to DVDR Tutorial updated a month ago) as it encodes in 1/2 the time with better quality as well.

2. Rip the movie off the dvd in IFO mode with Stream Processing on and selecting ONLY the streams you want.

3. Make sure your using mpeg2dec3.dll

4. Use LanczosResize

 

[celtic_druid]

If you want faster resizing I would go with simpleresize() or something like that lanczos is quite slow, but better quality. DVD-->DVD there is no resize anyway if that is what you are doing.

 

[farricker]

cheers guys you are great help, don't no what i would do without you


farricker

 

[ChickenMan]

DVD2SVCD does not allow the removal of the xxxxresize() line, but I have found Lanzcos faster than the default BiCubic resize.

 

[celtic_druid]

Just ran a small test, only 1000's frames with no resize, lanczos and bicubic 0,0.5. As you would expect with the resize being the same as the source, there was no real difference. Test was purely on the speed of AVISynth, not DVD2SVCD, CCE or anything else.

Throw in a resize to 1024x576 and lanczos was a little slower (under 1 sec), although you would need to decode a much longer piece of video for usefull results. Simpleresize on the otherhand was around 2seconds faster, so even with the small sample you can see that it is quicker.