[MacDV] How long does it take you to encode........

Jeff Fay jeff.fay at uaf.edu
Mon Nov 25 15:00:13 PST 2002


This sounds pretty normal to me - I seem to remember reading somewhere 
that encoding for VCDs takes about 4-6 times as long as the starting 
file is. there's a lot of compression going on there and that takes time.

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Jeff Fay
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College of Rural Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6180

phone (907) 474-5349
fax (907) 474-5139
jeff.fay at uaf.edu
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