[MacDV] VCD encoding speed

[Erica Sadun]

>I've been dual-booting between 10.1 and 10.2 for awhile now, but 
>using 10.1 for burning VCDs with.
>My 10.1 system was held at QT5 and Toast 5.1.2
>Today I finally updated Toast to v5.2.1, and burned a VCD with it on 
>OSX 10.2 with QT6 installed.
>It took 3+ hours for each 28 minute movie (a DV stream created by 
>FCP) on a G4/733. plenty of disk space.
>With previous versions it was slow, but not this slow! Hell, 
>encoding a DVD is faster than this now!

MPEG-1 is more highly compressed so takes more time to compute
than MPEG-2 compression.

-- Erica