On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 05:30, 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 that does make a lot more sense to me now... no offense meant... thanks for the input,,, this thread is _very_ interesting to me,,, I am learning much here... thank for Anne's asking too.
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