/me throws hat into the ring I wasnt trying to poke holes , I have a mate who has both ....encoding seems to be a strong point of the macosx/G4 combo ....he had run both machines side by side with the same dvd and the powerbook outperformed the athlon machine by a conciderable margin . True these days P4/athlons are just as capable running PS etc style apps , but the mac still seems to have an edge in multimedia style tasks
Cheers Dale. On Friday 03 October 2003 15:06, you wrote: > I've been unable to find and DVD transcode mac/pc benchmarks - but I > would expect a 867G4 to be about the same as a 2Ghz P4. I'm basing my > opinion on photoshop, etc benchmarks that compare the best macs (dual > 1.25Ghz g4's at the time) and best PCs (P4 3Ghz), the PCs blow the macs > away for photoshop style operations. I am guessing that photoshop ops > are fundamentally similar to DVD transcoding. The P4 CPUs are no slouch > when it comes to integer math, I don't think the "Mac is best for > photoshop" performance myth is relevent anymore. Can anyone enlighten > me if I am way off base here? > > Brad > > (let the mac vs PC bashing begin, mwahahahaha!!) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dale Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 2:36 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: transcoding dvd - how long should it take? > > > > > > Bear in mind thats what macs excell at ,and cross arch prob > > isnt a good > > reference... you can expect to rip/encode dvd's quicker on a 867 mhz > > powerbook than on a dual proc 2ghz AMD > > > > Cheers > > Dale. > > > > On Friday 03 October 2003 11:59, you wrote: > > > My Mac G4 867Mhz takes about 3-4 hours to transcode about > > > > 1.5 hrs from > > > > > .mov or .avi too mpg for VCD in OS X... Hope this helps... > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:22 AM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: transcoding dvd - how long should it take? > > > > > > > > > > > > On my athlon 1133 with 512MB RAM dvd::rip is telling me > > > > it wants to > > > > > > take about 6 hours to turn the ripped 1.5 hour dvd into > > > > svcd format > > > > > > (size of two cd's). > > > > > > > > Is this typical? It seems to be transcoding at aout 6 > > > > fps. It seems > > > > > > so slow. There is not much else going on on the box.
