Time remaining is increasing!

Question

I'm trying to encode 45 minutes of HD footage using the HD DVD H.264 one hour setting.
When originally submitted, Batch Monitor quoted a time remaining of around 3 hours for the video. The batch is still processing, but the time remaining is slowly going UP instead of down. It now shows a time remaining of 9 hours 47 minutes - and it still rising!
Can anybody help?

Answer 1

The Apple H.264 encoder automatically calculates the optimal number of passes it needs to encode the movie as it goes along. This means that it doesn't necessarily know how many passes it will need when you first start the encoding process. That is why the time goes up.
If you want to speed up encoding, either set it to single pass (at the expense of visual quality) or optimize Compressor for your computer:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/usingcompressor_with_multiplecores.html