hmmm dvd::rip has a cluster mode, you need transcode on the slave boxes. It'd be interesting to do a price/perfomance analysis of one G4 mac against a similarly priced athlon/p4 cluster.....
anyway going out for a few hours made my eyes less square and theres only 6 mins to go!! On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 03:13:44+1200 Dale Anderson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /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. > >
