Does anyone care about home built HTPCs anymore ? The only thing MythTV does well is marketing !
bleh - what a troll "Very slow piece of junk" hahaha - the droll troll -=dave On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:55:47 -0800, Ian Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've used cleaner 5 for Windows and it is a very slow piece of junk. It > does however work well in an automated video production environment. > > Does anyone even care about the Mac/PC comparison anymore? The only > thing Apple does right these days is marketing. > > Ian > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Johnson > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal > benchmark... > > speaking of unrelated benchmarks... > > I while ago I was processing analog VHS corporate media -> MJPEG full > NTSC > captures -> MPEG2 DVD-spec'd streams with Discreet's Cleaner 5. My G3 > tower > was talking an excruciating 12hrs to process each 1/2-hr clip. I > decided > I'd setup my 1.1GHz PC to do the same so I could process multiple files > simultaneously in order to make a deadline. > > Here are the specs: > > PC: > 1GHz PIII (256kB L2, 153MHz FSB, 1150MHz CPU Speed/1150MHz L2 Cache > Speed) > CUSL-2 Mobo > Windows 2000 Professional (forget SP number) > > Mac: > G3 Tower 266MHz (512kB L2, 84MHz FSB, 292MHz CPU/194MHz L2) > Original Rev. A "Beige" codname "Gossomer" Mobo > Mac OS 10.1.6 > > Subsystems that were identical on each machine (exactly identical, as > they > each used the same exact hardware): > 512MB ECC SDRAM "Crucial" (the Mac didn't utilize the ECC function but > the > CUSL-2 did) > Adaptec 29160 U3 SCSI Controller (160MB/s) > 3x 36GB Atlas III 10k M160 SCSI Drive (1 boot/temp, 1 source, 1 > destination) > Cleaner 5.0.0 (Mac/PC) > > MJPEG source file was cropped, color-spaced correction, and heavily > processed with highest quality settings for a 5-7Mbps MPEG2 DVD-Spec > stream. > The repeatable results show approximate times: > > PC: 18Hrs > Mac: 12Hrs > > Make of this what you will, but it is CERTAINLY not straight MHz, or > even > bus speeds. > > Anyone can argue any section of this totally informal test as invalid. > The > easiest is to claim that Discreet may not have optimzied the code for > the PC > version of the software but I just can't imagine that would be the case. > If > we assume that Discreet abides by the rules of capitolizm, then we have > to > assume that they put as much effort as attempting to build a quality > product > on each platform. If this is even remotely true, then the results > certainly > support the idea that the PPC processing platform can really munge > data... > and FAST. > > okay, you platform biggots can flame amongst yourselves ;) > > -=dave > > > "THIS TRANSMISSION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE ADDRESSEE. IT MAY CONTAIN > PRIVILEGED OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. ANY UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE IS > STRICTLY PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE > NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY SO THAT WE MAY CORRECT OUR TRANSMISSION. PLEASE DESTROY > THE ORIGINAL. THANK YOU." > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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