Sorry for not being more clear.
Realtime Encoding:
If it can encode it at the same FPS that the movie is at. Most DVDs are at 27 FPS.
Most fast computers can only encode at 15-20 FPS, so it takes ~50% longer than the actual film length to encode it.
I was saying it'd be nice to be able to encode faster than it would take to watch the movie, or even much faster....
Personally when I encoded Saving Private Ryan to an 700MB file last night on my Thunberbird 952Mhz, it took like 6 hours to complete.
That's what I'd like to speed up.
When MP3s first came out you could only encode at 1x or so, now you can do it at >20x with the right system.
Eventually MP4s will be as quick and easy, but not this year unless, of course, they make hardware MP4/DivX encoding.
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