i just started using divx5,1, and it seeeems sloow
damn slow. like 10 hours for a 2pass with no filters, no resize, no crop, nada. set to (as far as i can tell) normal speed in its config box.


is divx5.1 just superslow at encoding, or am i missing something inconfiguration?
if it is this slow, i may need to go back to a previous version.


anybody have any tips/ideas'thoughts?

You're not the first I hear of this.....though I can't confirm myself....

You checked the divx forum ?
I haven't yet.....

10 hours? What computer do you have? A i386?

hey, if I turn ALL options on and DE-interlace at slow/quality setting , then xvid or divx , I'll be that long busy too...extreme case even 13 hours (p4 1.7GHz 256mb)

But on average 4-8 hours.....depends on a lot of things....mainly PAL/NTSC & Progressive/Interlaced.....the rest don't slow things down as much as some guides tell you...

thanks for replying you two,


eh, i have a custom 2.9ghz 1gig ram. yes, a top of the line Tandy T-2000, the best radio shack had to offer in 1983.

it must be somesetting i did wrong, im going to mess around with the settings some more.

usually i can rip and encode a dvd faster then if i actually watched it, but these vhs rips seen abnormally sloooooooooooooooooow.

Takes about 8 hours for me to encode using divx 5 if I am encoding a VHS..that is with cropping and deinterlace filter.

ah, i just switched to xvid for a while.

cropping isnt nearly as slow as the dreaded resizing. that takes a month.

Divx is killing itself......

Divx 5.1 is NOT for the impatient or those with merely one PC...

If you must use divx 5.1 Make sure you set Speed/Quality to NORMAL....
you set it to slow then al those new algowhatever-isms kick in....
....and framerates of 8 FPS on a 3 GHZ machine are quite normal (!)

And this is where Divx STAKES itself ; Yes it has retaken the crown from xvid , IF you do the ( get ready for a shock) 4 pass encode !..

BUT WHAT IS THE POINT ENCODING 24 - 48 HOURS a 4 pass 1cd, when you can do a 2 CD 5.05 ( or 5.1 on normal setting , supposedly as good) IN HALF THAT TIME , ENDING WITH A FAR HIGHER BITRATE ??????"?????

Well, here's waiting for divx 6 then......

Oh, and Xvid's motion compensation BLOWS

Well according to your guys system mine sucks but I'm running a 1gig athlon and it takes me approx 8-10 hour a pass for stupid divx 5.1........on 100 minutes encode tho. If .0.5 is faster I'll fer sure take a step back.



x "the patient one"

heya xclaw,
8 hours is a long time for a 1 ghz.
i would guess you have a few other programs running while encoding, like emule. do you have virtualdub priority set to normal, both from windows taskmanager and the selection of the encoding codec menu?
if your running emule and peer guardian while encoding it would process ssssssssssssssllllllllooooowww as hell.

as far as i know it's set to normal, when i'm encoding i only have irc (don't ban me mod ) open for chatting. Otherwise nothing else is on at that time. If i set the priority higher would it go faster? When i open task manager cpu is at 100%. I remember when i encoed a toon way back it only took like 2-3 hours to encode but that was only 23minutes.....


x

it seems no matter what, virtualdub/vmod/nano will raise cpu usage to 100%. even when i have it on idle.

i wouldnt set vdub in taskmanager to anything above 'normal'. it crashes on mine. there is an option in the codec configuring(where you choose bitrate) on setting the encoding speed. slower is supposed to be better quality, but i cant tell the difference. i set it to 'normal'. then when your actually encoding there should be a small pop-up info screen with an option for encoding speed. normal is what i use, i dont notice any speed up above normal.

irc doesnt take up much cpu usage, last time i used it.

do you resize you videos? that makes it take a lot longer. i think every filter adds a bit to the encoding time, but resize is one of the worst.

I think it is the Saturation filter i use to bring up the level of the colours a bit, other than that I use mainly a noise filter and if needed a smoothing filter. From my knowledge the smooth and sat filter would be the ons to slow it down the most, I haven't tested this theory yet but I might just for fun


x

arrgh, i forgot i had been using xvid and not divx5.1

woops, i hadnt capped a vhs since that first post, and had been using gordian knot with xvid as default.


some of those types of filters ive used for cartoons can really slow it down too, temporal smoother i think is one. i dont think ive ever seen any of your work, so i dont know what the end result is. i can usually spot warpsharp/smoother/xsharpen if they are used on a video. if you cap them from old vhs tapes, flaXen's filters are some i use,fxVHS and cartoon tool for virtualdub.
you probably have them already, but
http://flaxen.dynip.com/vdf/fxtoon/help.html#intro

i had just used that latest virtualdub alpha version, good speed with divx5.1, on a 50minute show, each pass was a little less then 1 hour without anything else running. running bsplayer really lowered the fps, from about 40 to 50fps to 7fps, and it wouldnt reach back up to 50fps even after killing bsplayer, highest was about 30fps.
fucked up the audio though, it said it processed it, but it wasnt in the end file.