CPU speed

thanks ! I guess I'll save my pennies for a while longer until there is 3Ghz chips out...... :)

The biggest difference would be you SimpleResize. Gerti uses Bicubic, that's a big difference in speed, just try it yourself with one movie and compare it with your SimpleResize-speed.

SimpleResize is much faster, about 20% usually.

Hello, just for comparison, my speed is: 2.2 (CCE 2.50, simpleresize,plus some other filter i forget, mpeg2dec2.dll) I'm running on two AthlonMP 1.2ghz, system has 768mb PC2100 DDR266 reg, running on Adaptec 29160 64bit SCSI, and two IBM Ultrastar U160 drives. My problem is that almost ALL the applications that DVD2SVCD uses are not SMP friendly, so they only use one CPU. That means that my 2.2 speed is based on ONLY ONE CPU, since my CPU usage is only 50% while CCE is running :( That ofcourse allows me to encode two movies at the same time, one on each CPU, on different SCSI harddrives, and the 768mb ram are enough. Usualy CCE uses about 170 megs of ram on a 3 hour movie. Maybe one day CCE and Anisynth will be able SMP friendly, and i'll be able to see higher speeds (4.0?).

Is that speed normal? 

First of all, thanks for such a good handy program that enables us to make excellent versatile copies of our works ( To ddogg, Dividee, shh, DSPguru, doom9 and of course dvd2svcd ). I have been reading these forums long before I had a computer of my own and just read and read. No practice ground had I found until recently I built up my own tiny little system. That is Athlon xp 1800+ 256 MB DDR Ram Asus KT 266 A Ati Radeon VE 64 MB Seagate Barrcauda 60 GB 7200 rpm Ide Quantum 30 GB 7200 rpm Ide To my surprise I only got a realtime speed of 0.990 at the highest with this built while encoding a NTSC dics with simple resize and temporal smoother 2,1. What speed should I really get and what place am I doing wrong here? Thanks

@Cidici: Oh, seems I mixed up some facts ;) I assumed you were using SDRAMs - but now that you say you're using DDR RAMs with a KT266A chipset mobo your numbers are no suprise to me anymore (also the fact that you don't need the CRC patch then). Just check your memory bandwith with some bench tools like Sandra2002 and compare them to SDRAM based KT133 chipsets - it's awesome. And that is your real performance gain as video encoding is very demanding concerning memory bandwith. Greetz, Gerti

@murattttt...you are using temporal smoother so yes your cce rt speed sounds correct 40% reduction. Temporal Smoother (slows encoding down by about 40%) SmartDeinterlace (slows encoding speed by about 40%) BlendFields slows (encoding speed by about 10%) SeparateFields/SelectEvery (PAL) (slows encoding speed by about 15%) VerticalReduceBy2 (PAL) (slows encoding speed by about 20%) Telecide (PAL) (slows encoding speed by about 25%) PAL 480x576 takes longer to encode than NTSC 480x480

I`m running XP1800+ (1.55ghz),KT266A,512mb crucial pc2100,Geforce2pro,seagate baracuda IV 40gb. Encoding a PAL dvd to svcd with the following settings for my first attempt which i started at 5pm gmt today and is still going now at 2:33am! Telecide() SimpleResize(480,432) AddBorders(0,72,0,72) ResampleAudio(44100) I get a speed of 1.041, which means its going to be at it for 10 hours! surely thats way wrong for a pc like mine??? Just as a matter of interest is there a routine to follow to produce the fastest encoding time, because surely regardless of time it takes this programs bound to produce an excellent end product isn`t it? Does the cinema craft encoder use any of the AMD cpu extentions or is it primarily designed for intel chips? What would make the most difference to get it encoding faster it dvd2svcd`s settings? Would me getting another 512mb of ram (putting it upto 1gb) make it encode twice as fast? Is it just me, or is it miles faster encoding a NTSC movie than a PAL movie, cos it seems alot longer than 20% for pal encoding time?

@buggerlugs imho your speed is *too* slow, i've never tried telecide BUT if the 25% reduction mrbass reported is right, there's something wrong, because without telecide you wold get 1.25-1.30 speed, that is slower than my duron running at 1266 with simpleresize) - i think CCE should use some SSE routines, so amd cpus should perform well too - i dont think 512mb more will help you, i have only 256MB probably it would help you to set in dvd2svcd the process priority to HIGH. If this change doesnt help you, maybe there's something *very* wrong in your bios settings, but i cant guess what oh, i encode PAL movies too, so this is not a cause for the difference of encoding speed