On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 19:58 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > I've never extracted vob files (for one thing, my current disks are > too small - upgrading one machine is planned, but needs new hardware > [ old via_sata doesn't do even sata2 ] and there's a shortage of my > favourite cheap CPUs at the moment).
I'd rather not extract the vobs either, but I couldn't see a way of getting ffmpeg to read directly from the DVD. <snip interesting, but non-impatience-alleviating, background stuff> > I'm on a single AMD processor - intel are reputedly better for > transcoding, and more CPUs always helps [ you might need to force the > desired number of threads, or ffmpeg might do an adequate job out of > the box ]. [This answers Alan's last question as well]. ffmpeg appeared to be pegged to one core (99% CPU usage, and in multiple cpu mode it was showing 1 core pretty much idle); I've added '-threads 2' to the command given in my OP and that appears to have improved things. `top` now shows both cores being used, and the conversion is ticking along at around 15fps. That's still not what I naively expected, but given the amount of work that has to be done it's understandable. Thanks again, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
