Just out of interest, how long does lame take to encode files using your settings? (and what spec is the machine?)



I'm ripping at approximately 5x realtime (Pioneer DVD drive). Encoding is being done at about 1.75x realtime on my main (at the house) fileserver.

Now, Specs... that machine is a Dual P3 550, .5G ram, with significant drive IO.

I'm ripping with abcde (a better CD encoder), which pulls the tracks as fast as cdparanoia can get them (as perfectly as possible), and then fires off encoders in the background to process the files. So, a full CD takes around 20-25 minutes to encode, thanks to the 2 processors.

I can't see lame taking that long to encode a file on a 300mhz... It's certainly not going to do it realtime at VBR, but I don't get it taking that long... I'll run a test on my backup server and see what it does...