On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:51 AM, I put the Who? in Mishehu <mishehu.mash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Senectus . 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. >> Would 64 bit be better than 32bit? > > > 64bit would definitely be preferred over 32bit, if for nothing more than the > memory addressing (and you're likely to be working with large files when it > comes to transcoding).
I doubt that matters. I would be very surprised to see that it reads the file more than once, either in chunks or start to finish. My guess is it will have a queue that's maybe a few 100 meg, and move the file though that. > My recommendation is that however much memory you > would get in 32bit, double it for 64bit. My recommendation is get a good price on a few gig, and maybe leave slots open for expansion. I have trouble justifying a gig on an average single user system. (average user does not run 4 VMs and such) This reminds me of swap formulas. They made sense when ram and disk was expensive, but now it's hardly worth the effort - it doesn't take much thought or cost to allocate a big hunk of disk, even if you never need it given you have huge amounts or ram. > I don't really see a significant difference between current day Intel Core > 2/Xeon and Athlon64 procs in my usage scenario. But I've up to now mostly > been doing mpeg2 to xvid conversions. What I wish was supported (but I > don't think the prospects are very good) is for ATI Avivo support since I > have ATI cards... when I did tests in windows, it transcoded in 1/6 the > time as it took for Pinnacle Studio to transcode the same type of file... > no special filters or effects. Nvidia's cuda(?) is also looking promising, but I am not aware of any code for transcoding. -- Carl K
