@ wase4711 :
Its a AMD XP2200*@2500, with only 512Mb of PC133
RAM.
The movie is about 1Hr 45min long, and is beeing reencoded using 2-pass VBR, both audio and video.
Now, I have 1 BIG MPEG2 file, without any menu's or subtitles...
So after some more work, with the adding of chapters and a menu, and some "extras",
it will need some more time to encode to a final NTSC DVD.
Too god I dont have to do this too often
my el-cheapo standalone DVD player
eats both standards
but this is just a test, to see if I will be able to convert some
family movies, and send to my wifes family in Venezuela, where they use NTSC.
btw :
a dual CPU setup ( or P4-HT ) might cut tthis time MUCH, I know from some earlier experiments,
using a DELL with dual XEON setup
Thet was much faster and more fun.