If anyone can help me...

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 12:42 pm

I'm trying to find a fast, efficient way to compress my epis of eva (klinky is a good help, but the compressing takes too long). If you could supply a link or a way to get a 25 minute epi of eva down to under 200 mb i'd be very thankful and possibly never bug you again.

PS: im still noob at this and i know how to do the basics (ripping and compressing, i just need soemthing faster than 2-4 hour compression...)

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 12:45 pm

Um... takes me about 30 minutes to compress something, altho my method is crap. Still want it?

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 12:47 pm

if the file size is less than 200 mb, yes, and takes less than 4 hours, yes

Brolli411 · Post by **Brolli411** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 3:46 pm

I also have a question on compression. I know I can just start another thread but since this one is already here...

When I'm trying to compress to HuffYUV in Vdub, I'm getting file sizes of about 600 megs for 20 second clips. This is with the deinterlacing filter on. I'm not exporting from the VOB's, but the original movie file that I ripped a while ago (In DivX). Is this suppose to happen? (And I have read the guides, more than once)

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 6:14 pm

ARGH!

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET IT TO GO MUCH FASTER.

Your 333Mhz Pentium II is NOT GOING TO CUT IT.

When converting you MUST DECODE A MPEG2 & AC3 stream and then be encoding a MPEG3 & MP3 stream! These are taking place pretty much at the same time right after each other. I doubt you can even do realtime DVD playback on a 333Mhz Pentium II.

It's never going to be REALTIME unless you get 1Ghz+ machine. Even then it's going to take 20 - 30minutes.

If you want them to look good you should apply some 2D cleaners, aspect ratio correction as well as IVTC, which will take even more time.

Many codecs can convert something down to 200MB. Which one looks best when doing it ? Well it's probably XviD & to make it look even better you'd want to do a 2pass encode on it, which would take TWICE as long!

Get a faster computer and then try again :\

~klinky

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 8:19 pm

gimme teh cash and i'll do it

i know my comp is slow, and i can get realtime dvd-playback... i just wanna get episodes small enough that i can fit about 3-4 per cd so they dun take up a lot of HD space. after i let my comp sit for a while, it did go below 3 hours (after about 1/2 hour of compressing), guess this is a thing that i can do while im at practice or sleeping

i guess i have all that i need to do it, except for teh processor speed and more space on my hard drive (4 gb free)

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 8:35 pm

Yeah, you really need to set it up for compression or burning and then just let it sit. Do it before going to sleep, or whenever you're going to be away. It just will take time.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 12:13 am

klinky there is no mpeg3

you know that

24 mins at 200mb is about 1010 kbps (with 128kbps mp3 audio). Then again 200mb is a funny number for putting on a CD since you'll either end up with a 600mb cd or an 800 mb cd.

So say you want to put 4 episodes on each cd. You get about 870 kbps with 128kbps mp3, or about 900kbps with 96kbps ogg vorbis.
Thats decent, with some filtering it should be OK.
3 episodes/cd on the other hand gives you 1328 kbps to work with, leaving 1200 with mp3 and of course 1230 with vorbis. That should be more than adequate.

For the fastest encode you'd have to deinterlace the crappy way with separatefields() and selecteven() and then bilinearresize(320,240). IVTC would be way too much for your speed concerns and I dunno which blend deinterlacer is fastest to recommend, only the fastest method I know of which is above.
XviD is the fastest codec, however you might have a tough time decoding it on a 200mhz computer. Anyway you'd have to pick 1 pass quality and set it at like 95% while setting the max bitrate to like 1200kbps. No special options like chroma motion or gmc or qpel.

However, all in all this is an ubercrappy method of encoding. Try doing video stuff when you have the equipment to :\ I bought myself a new computer for the same exact reason and in the same circumstances when I was 14, and neither I or my parents are rich

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 3:18 am

Doh! :O I hit the 3 instead of the 4 >_<

~klinky