Jeff Hyche wrote: > 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.
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