On 06/30/2006 10:30:57 AM, Phil Ehrens wrote:
I never find myself operating on VOB files, but I see a lot of people do. I thought that most people who were working with VOB's had them as the product of using a video capture device. Are you ripping from VHS? There may be a better strategy to use on your rips.
I'm currently ripping from the dvd's I own. I'm moving all my SciFi to xvid and pumping them through my HTPC. So far I have all of Star Trek, farscape, Babylon 5, and Space 1999 ripped and converted. I'm currently working on Stargate SG-1 right now.
I mainly rip everything under windows and hand it off to the linux box to process it now. I used to use AutoGK on the HTPC to do all the processing. AutoGK used to get better speed than transcode, doing 15 to 20 fps on both passes.
Since I installed the new xvid libs and recompiled them using yasm that has all changed. Transcode on the 64bit linux box blows it out of the water. I used to get below 15 fps on the first pass and around 5 to 8 fps on the second pass. Now I'm getting 60+ fps on the first pass and 30+ on the second pass. I was expecting a performance increase but I didn't know I was giving a squirrel a power drink. I keep waiting for the time space hole to open and the box to get sucked into it.
> Once I figure out which direction to row in I want version 2.0 to > handle all the codecs that transcode can handle. There are a lot of dark corners in video (no pun intended). Some of them are documented in the transcode wiki: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode If you would like to contribute to the wiki email me for the editing password.
I'll be willing to do that in the future but right now I'm going concentrate on what I've got in front of me.
