I'm using Handbrake 1.3.1 (2020010400) to encode a 29GB source MKV file generated by MakeMKV into H.265, using the 'H.2p30' preset. 'A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans. Handbrake has suddenly developed a problem with encoding things at a normal speed, and I can't figure out why. 'Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.' 'If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.' 'Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!' With queueing in the newer HB/MF I can rip a whole bunch of DVD's and queue them all up and not have to deal with it for hours. But I think that the 30 minute ripping before the transcoding made it a wash! I actually made the process 28 minutes longer. I did go from 55fps, to 56fps by ripping the DVD to the HD before transcoding. Now if he was transcoding on Big Iron Quad Core G5/Intel, you can pick up one or two fps with those tricks, but at the level he is running, it is all CPU. Transcoding is CPU intensive, not bound by drive speeds. Ti, if you can, you should try booting from an external HD to see if it's any faster.Д®ven if his internal HD is 500 RPM it won't help MDD 1.25DP - ~85 min (between 80-90 min, don't remember exactly)Д¬onclusion: get thee a refurb Mini 1.66 (or two) and crunch those numbers!Д®dits: adding more machines as I remember themД®dited 2 time(s). PowerMac G5 1.8 single - ~100 min (I don't remember the exact time) The numbers I can remember in my head (my cheat sheet is at home): Finally, get your torque wrench, set it to the manufacturers torque settings for the nuts, and (still in a star pattern) start at the top, turn each but once, and keep. This is a specific conversion I do much of the time for my media server. VOB file sourced from a Pioneer DVD recorder), downconverting to 480x360, deinterlacing, cropping 4, 6, 8, 10 pixels from Top, Bottom, Left, Right respectively, target 1400 mbps video and 128 mbps audio, mono. Convert 24 minute interlaced 640x480 mpeg2 (from a DVD. Haven't tested any Dual G5s or Core2 Duos yet. The Quad 2.5 G5 was only 12.5% faster than my 2 GHz Core Duo MacBook. My single processor 1.8 G5 is less than 1/2 the speed of the Mini 1.66 duo. Which means those 1.66 CoreDuo Minis are the best recoding boxes on the market for the price (I have one doing this).

In terms of speed, a Core Duo is about 1.7x as fast as a similar speed 2-core G4. Heh, I've done a bunch of recoding tests to h.264 from interlaced mpegs (direct from VOB files - the data is the same) on everything from a 300 MHz G3 to Quad G5 and 2.0 GHz Core Duo using iSquint (same encoder as VisualHub).

Why does handbrake take so long