Dumb Question maybe, but how could that have affected the output quality and still completed the job?
On 19/9/06 12:45, "Luke Sharkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Well I figured out what was going wrong, and now my dvds are being ripped at > their expected sizes once more. > > As I suspected, it had _absolutely nothing_ to do with bitrates "being only > a maximum bitrate, so undersized output files are almost expected..." etc. > etc., despite some opinions that I had foisted upon me. > > The real nature of it turned out to be that the CPU of my laptop was > overheating. I'd have used gkrellm /etc. to monitor it, but unfortunately > none of these sorts of tools are compatible with my model of computer. As I > have been ripping DVDs at high quality ["4" for motion selection (?) in > xvid4conf, etc.) the rips for some films have taken as long as 10 hours. > Coupled with the fact that the vent on my laptop was facing a small enclosed > area, problems ensued. > > I have now moved my computer to a well ventilated area and am allowing my > computer some time (3 hours or so) from when one rip is finished before I > start the next, and the output files are once more exactly the size > predicted by dvd::rip. > > I just wish people could have provided some practical suggestions (e.g. try > decreasing the keyframe rate) rather than using this mailing list to bounce > insults off. > > Yours, > LS > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows LiveĀ Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! > http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb > mobile 00447766543759 home 00441517333870 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ichat [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn [EMAIL PROTECTED] home f3 81 Hartington Rd Toxteth Liverpool Merseyside L8 0SE United Kingdom Go look and listen to some music I wrote at http://www.myspace.com/tempolibre
