by Qyot27 » Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:07 pm
Choose different options. Insane level settings take forever to encode. My own profiles move along at .2 fps, and that's the more permissive distro one (the 'master' encode usually dips below .1 fps - even compressing the lossless copy with Lagarith takes less time, by several orders of magnitude). And I use x264 directly, via the command-line. Or otherwise, through MeGUI.
As a very basic measure, use just CRF 18. No other options, just CRF 18. Even on my comp doing that doesn't get me over 3 or 4 fps. If you have to, set it up and let it encode overnight.
As for audio, encode it separately if you have to. Take the .wav and give it to Nero or iTunes - there's no way it should take 2 hours to encode.
YAMB, or MP4Box in general, is only meant to mux together video and audio that's already been encoded. It doesn't encode stuff for you.