Why is AVI to VCD / DVD so slow?
Depending on your computer system, you may experience anywhere from 1 to 10 frames (more or less) encoded per second. Some systems will be slower, some faster. This means it might easily take from 3 to 30 hours to encode 1 hour of video to mpeg. Mpeg encoding is a computationally intensive, and slow, process. The characteristics of the video also have an effect. If your video is 720×480, for example, ‘AVI to VCD / DVD’ needs to resize each frame to 352×240 (or 352×288 for PAL), which adds to the time required. Some codecs are also slower than others.
