On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Senectus . <senec...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm rigging up a box just for ripping our entire DVD collection (300+ DVD's) > to a digital format so my DLNA capable box can play anything without > worrying about the 2yr old destroying discs etc. > I'd like to know what the low hanging fruit is in terms of quick hardware > for trans-coding... > Any advice out there? I'll be using Ubuntu.
I think it all depends on what app you are using, and what compiler/cpu optimisations it uses. > Would 64 bit be better than 32bit? Last year I moved a process from a P4 1.7ghz to a 2.0 amd 64 running 64bit linux. it seemed slower and someone suggested: you are reading/writing 2x as much data, but the app may only be using the lower 1/2, so you are moving the same data and a bunch of 0's. if 50% of what the app does is read/write data, expect it to be slower. My advice: don't buy hardware for this. if you own a few different systems, do some tests. I would rip DVDs as you need them. Don't bother compressing them. by the time you need disk space for the last 1/2 of your collection, the cost of the disk space will be lower. -- Carl K
