[MacDV] Re: VCD encoding speed

[Gerhard Kuhn]

That  is strange because it has always been and still is faster to 
encode a VCD rather than DVD on my computer.

Gerhard
On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 01:13  AM, Erica Sadun wrote:

>> 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
>