Splasm Software Discussions

i bought podner because it was the only program that encoded my files during the free trial it worked perfectly and i was so excited. Now that i bought it eveyrthing is encoding white, the same problem that other person had. So i am following your adivce and doewnlaoding the free trial of DIVX but it is taking so long, like its 15% finished and it has been two hours! help please! im going on a trip tomorrow and i jsut want to watch my movies on my ipod! thanks!

The DivX download is usually very fast - we just tested it and it took less than 20 seconds. The package is only about 5MB, which should take about 30 minutes on a dialup connection and much less on cable or DSL. Slow downloads from the DivX site could indicate a network issue on their end or yours. Since it came in so quickly for us there may be an issue at your end. It's been over an hour since you posted your message - is the download still in progress?

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Keith Gugliotto
Primordial Sea Captain
Splasm Software
https://www.splasm.com

i am sorry i did not explain myself cleary, i meant that the converting process on divx was going at a rate of 15% per every two-three hours...is that normal?

Processing time really depends on several factors, the most important of which are the Encoding you select in Podner and your Mac's raw horsepower.

We've recorded our G5 Quad encoding MPEG-4 at about 20-50% of the original source material length, but H.264 takes about 40-70% and H.264 MultiPass can range from 90-300%. That would mean a 2-hour film could take about 24 minutes with MPEG-4 but up to 6 hours with H.264 MultiPass. The G5 2.5GHz/Dual is not that much slower than the Quad, and performance scales somewhat linearly from there with slower G5s and G4s.

In general use, if you think of MPEG-4 as a baseline, H.264 takes about 1.5x longer and H.264 MultiPass takes about 4x longer. It's a time vs. quality equation: MPEG-4 takes less time but quality is usually noticeably lower, and H.264 MultiPass takes forever but quality is top-notch. The middle of the road option, H.264 (not MultiPass), is probably best for the majority of users.

It's possible for DivX to cause the process to run a little slower than normal, but I would guess the real issue in your case is processor type and speed. Do you know which processor and speed you have there?

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Keith Gugliotto
Primordial Sea Captain
Splasm Software
https://www.splasm.com

im sorry im so confused. playing the files on podner before divix and everything, works it is not white. are you saying i should still convert them on divix? For podner i have been using the ecoding option, ipod, 320x420 MPEG-4. is this all wrong? i m am so sorry to be annoying.. i just really want my stuff to work thanks!

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Keith Gugliotto
Primordial Sea Captain
Splasm Software
https://www.splasm.com

it worked yay! thank you guys so much!