Should conversion take 24 hours

Joannec · Post by **Joannec** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:35 pm

Every time I use AVI2DVD it takes over 24 hours to convert. I'm doing it right now. I started process just under 13 hours ago and HCEnc is converting at 2 fps with another 13 hours to go.

I'm converting from and to an external hard drive as I only have a small capacity internal hard drive.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Your help is appreciated

Joannec · Post by **Joannec** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:58 pm

Just me then??

Thiaggo · Post by **Thiaggo** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:11 pm

What is your computer configuration? And what file are you converting?

Joannec · Post by **Joannec** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:30 pm

What info do you want to know?

Thiaggo · Post by **Thiaggo** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:17 am

Processor and memory size.
And what kind of file - is it xvid or anything else?

Joannec · Post by **Joannec** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:06 pm

I've got a pentium 3 processor. I only have 4 gb free space on my internal hard drive so I convert it onto my external hard drive (150gb) through a high speed usb port. I've got 384 mb ram.

Its an avi file (divx) file I'm trying to convert about 700 mb big.

Thanks for your help.

Post by **trustfm** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:14 pm

try using freenc at one pass . tHIS WILL DO FASTER faster results

Thiaggo · Post by **Thiaggo** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:55 pm

Pentium 3 with only 384MB of memory is not a good system for converting purposes but it sholud be faster than 2 fps. Check if you have any other programs running in background which may consume processor's time and disable them.

deepburn · Post by **deepburn** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:20 pm

Using that external drive is also going to slow you down also. If you're not too concerned about the quality of your output choose the faster settings for whichever encoder you're using in step 3 - as recommended by trustfm try FreeEnc with 1 pass.

Joannec · Post by **Joannec** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:17 pm

Just an update, I now use freeenc with one pass and its sped it up no end. Thanks for all your help.