<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pete Cap</b> <<a href="mailto:peteoutside@yahoo.com">peteoutside@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.
<br><br>So, I have maybe 20 shows I want to transcode so as to free up some space.<br><br>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?
</blockquote><div> <br>Your processor is your biggest problem. Upgrade that and favor processor frequency over a slower frequency dual core as I have yet to see any of the myth transcoding tools use the second processor in any big way.
<br><br><br>John</div></div>