[mythtv-users] Slow, slow, slow transcode

[Jeff volckaert]

On 12/3/06, Pete Cap <peteoutside at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I transcoded a video today using FFMPEG--took around 3 hours for a 2-hour
> video and the quality was just awful.  So I tried again using transcode and
> DivX, same properties.  I guess I should have read up on multi-pass
> transcoding before trying, but I just noticed it entered the "final pass"
> after 6 hours of processing...it has another 7 to go.
>
> So, I have maybe 20 shows I want to transcode so as to free up some space.
>
> Is there ANY way to speed up this process?  The computer is not great--is a
> 2.4ghz Celeron with 2 gigs of RAM--maybe getting a beefier processor?  More
> RAM?  ANYTHING?
>
> Or, if someone can suggest specific transcoding options that will result in
> a recording FINISHING transcoding the same day it is STARTED, that would be
> good too.
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
What transcode setting where you trying to achieve?  When I run
pdatranscode on an hour long show it takes about 15 minutes.  I shrink
it down to 320x240 300K bitrate which comes out to about 150M.  This
is on an AMD 1700 with 500M ram.  I'm using mencoder's lavc codec
(mpeg4) with pdatranscode.

Jeff