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Why does video encoding take so long? [Archive] - MacRumors Forums I'm ripping TV shows from a disc using handbrake. My laptop is heating up and lagging like crazy. It says encoding and is taking forever. Why? My specs: 2010 13"MBP 2.4ghz 8GB ram 330m nvidia 500GBHDD Because it takes time to decode the MPEG-2 encoded video from the video DVD (if you meant that with "disc") and decode it again as M ...Crunch Exercise