Just a progress report. Seems to be going fairly well.

So, I just had an error and am starting the encoding from scratch. Fucking great :-/ I'm crying a little bit right now :-(

Yeah, now the encode seems to be going slower from the beginning for some reason. Last time I had an average of 17.8fps for the 1st pass, starting on 19fps and now it's going at 13fps from the beginning and I restarted the computer before each encoding, so they should both have the exact same starting point. And it's not using the CPU to full capacity - only around 70% - WTF is up with that?

Well, I idiotically didn't keep those. And the error was nothing to do with the script, don't worry - it was a mechanical problem.

And I wouldn't mind it not using the CPU fully if it went just as fast as the first time but it doesn't. And in the first pass it doesn't matter as much either, because it will only add an hour or so but if it's any indication for how fast the 2nd pass will be, that's the real problem.

So now it's dropped to 7fps. I'm really pissed off.

It's on 41% now and the speed got up to 9fps, so it says 3hrs left, but still it's very slow. And it uses the CPU fully now.

Yes, I have, it's surprisingly low, only around 400MB, but that was the same the first time around.

Anyway, pass 1 finished with average of 12fps (it did speed up a bit towards the end) and now pass 2 is up to 5.1% and going pretty well (currently 1.7fps) but it's slowing down steadily (it started out at over 2fps).

Pass 2 13% speed 1.34fps. ETA 31 hrs. So far so good, although it makes me mad to think that it could have been done by now :-/

Don't worry, guys. This is the kind of thing I might have lft in even if I knew about it, so I sure as hell won't start rendering from scratch because of it.