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Topic author: whit
Subject: slow ogg encoding?
Posted on: 07/20/2004 10:57:08 PM
Message:

Hi, I'm very new to this but I'm trying to rip my 250 or so CDs to ogg for my Neuros II. It seems to be slow, and I wanted to know if I'm doing something that could be changed to speed things up a bit.
Basically, I ripped my cd of the 3 Tenors and it took 15 minutes.
I have a 2.0ghz machine with 512 ram, and the latest DBpoweramp.
I'm using q6.
I guess I'm hoping someone will tell me that a different encoder will be quicker, or that I need to lower my quality or something.
Thanks,

-w

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Reply author: webkid
Replied on: 07/20/2004 11:01:51 PM
Message:

15 minutes is not bad. Vorbis encoding (and decoding) tends to be more CPU intensive than MP3.

If you have a Pentium 4, you can download the P4-enhanced encoder from the dbPowerAmp site, http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ ... that will (roughly) double your encoding speed.

You can also try using their rip-to-RAM feature that comes with their shareware PowerPack addon.

Reply author: whit
Replied on: 07/21/2004 01:18:13 AM
Message:

Thanks, webkid... I went to that website and did get the power pack trial, so I will be trying the rip-to-ram method. However, I didn't see the p4-enhanced encoder. Maybe they just integrated it into the latest release? I'll post if I get better results... many thanks,

-w

Reply author: webkid
Replied on: 07/21/2004 01:44:52 AM
Message:

quote:
Originally posted by whit

However, I didn't see the p4-enhanced encoder.

Look harder.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-ogg.htm

Reply author: whit
Replied on: 07/21/2004 02:46:00 AM
Message:

Thanks again, I had checked the codec section but had not gone a level deeper into the ogg page.
After getting the pro pack trial and the p4 encoder, I did the last cd in 9minutes at q6, which is not exactly half the time but I can't compare each cd as if equals, since their lengths are different.
Thanks for the help and this is much more bearable than the 15min i was getting before...

-w

Reply author: Oggie
Replied on: 09/16/2004 04:36:58 AM
Message:

I think your best bet is rip to WAV if you have the disk space. That's the fastest way to rip. After you're done ripping a pile of CD's, you can encode to Ogg as a batch process and let the encoding proceed unattended. So you could spend a few hours ripping, then let the encoder run overnight. You can delete the WAV's afterwards if you don't want to keep them. But if it was me, I'd keep them (maybe as FLAC's, another batch process).

Reply author: webkid
Replied on: 09/16/2004 10:19:43 AM
Message:

That's basically what I do. I convert them into Monkey's Audio first, and then convert into Ogg Vorbis. The trouble with WAS is there's no real way to store tags in them.

Reply author: Don
Replied on: 09/20/2004 06:56:21 AM
Message:

quote:
Originally posted by Oggie

I think your best bet is rip to WAV if you have the disk space. That's the fastest way to rip.

If I am also making a backup CD, I rip to FLAC. On my machine (2.6Ghz P4) I think it is actually faster than ripping to wav due to the reduced disk write time. I save half the disk space, plus FLAC holds the tags which then transfer to the CD-text and vorbis files.

-Don

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