On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 10:30 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Sonntag, 14. September 2003 01:18 schrieb ed tharp: > > I wonder if the "my current 1.1Ghz Duron main machine i get > > around 7 frames per second, a 1400 Athlon gets around 14 frames > > per second" is capture? sounds like crap to me,,,, you need 28 > > frames a sec capture to have halfway decent video, imho. or is > > that render times? > > That is mpeg2 transcoding time. I do "capture" dvb tv or dv, both > means all the machine has to do is to save the stream to hd, > nothing more. Both are AFAIK under 10M/s and that even the slowest > CPU is able to do. If you want to do some real work in capturing > you use hardware that does the capturing. Of course the 7 fps for > mpeg2 encoding is crap compared with a 2500+ dual CPU setup that > should be a lot faster (even a Athlon at the same Ghz as my duron > should be a lot faster then my duron, because of the bigger L1/L2 > Caches) . If you render time is for you encoding time, yes its > render time. A normal movie needs one night to be encoded. Since i > don't record each day a movie i want to archive and i don't have to > sit in front of the machine, i couldn't care less. > > Steffen
Since the new box will be near-dedicated, it wouldn't be an issue for me, either. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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