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WayneC
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject:
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I'm running my venerable Celeron 1.4 ghz on a 7VBA133U Motherboard with
768meg of ram. Using FairUse Wizard LE I can encode at about 24 frames/sec.
I'm thinking about putting a new system together for encodeing and am
wondering what kind of performance your getting on various platforms. I'm
thinking an ATHLON XP 3200+ 400MHZ with a gig of memory (dual channel) and
a sata raid array. I'd be willing to go the extra money ($100-$150) for the
Athlon 64 (looks like the price point is at the 3200+) if real world
performance is worth it.
Looking for your ideas and opinions.
TIA
WayneC
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the dog from that film yo
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:
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"WayneC" <wc@cs.com> wrote in message news:X9lPd.5631$O86.2758@fe12.lga...
| Quote: | I'm running my venerable Celeron 1.4 ghz on a 7VBA133U Motherboard with
768meg of ram. Using FairUse Wizard LE I can encode at about 24
frames/sec. I'm thinking about putting a new system together for encodeing
and am wondering what kind of performance your getting on various
platforms. I'm thinking an ATHLON XP 3200+ 400MHZ with a gig of memory
(dual channel) and a sata raid array. I'd be willing to go the extra money
($100-$150) for the Athlon 64 (looks like the price point is at the 3200+)
if real world performance is worth it.
Looking for your ideas and opinions.
TIA
WayneC
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i have a pentium 3ghz.
speed depends on quality - i can do realtime, but for best it might take 90
mins for a movie for divx.
for a top quality vp62 codec rip it might be a day and a half.
that's the problem - when you get a faster machine, you want to up the
quality.
--
Gareth.
my Dad took me out for the evening and some girl was being a right
embarrassment
trying to get off with him, i had to pretend that i was his girlfreind
so that the stupid bitch would leave him alone, and we had a right
good laugh ahout it too.
'varizo' 26th Nov 04
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WayneC
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject:
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"the dog from that film you saw" <dsb@REMOVETHECAPITALSgarethyoung.plus.com>
wrote in message news:376fo1F58ocnkU1@individual.net...
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"WayneC" <wc@cs.com> wrote in message news:X9lPd.5631$O86.2758@fe12.lga...
I'm running my venerable Celeron 1.4 ghz on a 7VBA133U Motherboard
with 768meg of ram. Using FairUse Wizard LE I can encode at about 24
frames/sec. I'm thinking about putting a new system together for
encodeing and am wondering what kind of performance your getting on
various platforms. I'm thinking an ATHLON XP 3200+ 400MHZ with a gig of
memory (dual channel) and a sata raid array. I'd be willing to go the
extra money ($100-$150) for the Athlon 64 (looks like the price point is
at the 3200+) if real world performance is worth it.
Looking for your ideas and opinions.
TIA
WayneC
i have a pentium 3ghz.
speed depends on quality - i can do realtime, but for best it might take
90 mins for a movie for divx.
for a top quality vp62 codec rip it might be a day and a half.
that's the problem - when you get a faster machine, you want to up the
quality.
--
Gareth.
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Thanks for the reply Gareth,
I'm new to encoding, frame rates I listed above is to encode a 4.2 GB dvd
ISO to a 700 MB divx .avi with FairUse Wizard LE's default settings. Actual
time start to finish is about four hours (using two pass). I've been going
'round and 'round....first I have good picture but no sound, then I have
sound and pic but also subtitles displayed, then I have sound, pic, no
subtitles but widescreen movie is displayed in tv format
.....ARRRRGGGHHH.... I need a faster system just so it doesn't take so long
between screwups...LOL.
WayneC |
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Billy Joe
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject:
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In ref: X9lPd.5631$O86.2758@fe12.lga
WayneC <wc@cs.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I'm running my venerable Celeron 1.4 ghz on a 7VBA133U
Motherboard with 768meg of ram. Using FairUse Wizard LE I can
encode at about 24 frames/sec. I'm thinking about putting a
new system together for encodeing and am wondering what kind
of performance your getting on various platforms. I'm
thinking an ATHLON XP 3200+ 400MHZ with a gig of memory
(dual channel) and a sata raid array. I'd be willing to go
the extra money ($100-$150) for the Athlon 64 (looks like the
price point is at the 3200+) if real world performance is
worth it. Looking for your ideas and opinions.
TIA
WayneC
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Putting quality setting issues aside for a moment, a 3.2gp4-514
laptop, with 4000 rpm HDD, is 1.6 times faster than a 2gp4-512
tower, with 7000 rpm HDD. In fact, it remains 1.6 times faster
even when the target drive is on the LAN. In all cases the time
is better when the source and target are on different drives
(and a small additional improvement can be seen if the program
and codec are on yet another drive).
For TV captures on the 3.2g in MPEG2/MP2 @ 12 mbps, 720x480,
29.97 fps to Divx/MP3 @ 1.492 mbps, possibly cropped, using two
pass encoding and VDub-MPEG2 as the codec interface - pass 1
completes in just about play time (roughly 30 fps) and pass 2
completes in about 2 x play time (or slightly above 15 fps).
Overall ~3:1 conversion:play times.
For DVDs @ 23.976 fps MPEG2/AC3, ~6 mbps, 720x480, the
conversion time to the same Divx spec is better, probably
because the frame rate ratios are slightly higher.
Note: a good deal of the time in both processors is devoted to
audio conversion - thus for AC3 direct copy from a DVD, the
overall process time improves. Remuxing, using more than one
HDD, is a trivial step.
BJ |
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NeoRenegade
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Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:28 am Post subject:
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WayneC wrote:
| Quote: | I'm running my venerable Celeron 1.4 ghz on a 7VBA133U Motherboard with
768meg of ram. Using FairUse Wizard LE I can encode at about 24 frames/sec.
I'm thinking about putting a new system together for encodeing and am
wondering what kind of performance your getting on various platforms. I'm
thinking an ATHLON XP 3200+ 400MHZ with a gig of memory (dual channel) and
a sata raid array. I'd be willing to go the extra money ($100-$150) for the
Athlon 64 (looks like the price point is at the 3200+) if real world
performance is worth it.
Looking for your ideas and opinions.
TIA
WayneC
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I'm on a P4 Prescott 3.0GHz with 512MB of RAM, and using the slowest,
highest-quality options in my software setup (which is too complicated
to go into detail), I get 20-24fps.
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