Richard Van Den Boom wrote:
64bits does not use more memory and files are not bigger. Binaries are
not really faster either, though sometimes on older AMD CPUs you get
more register in 64bits. But on the whole, the main difference between
64bits and 32bits is that your system will support more RAM directly,
which is nice.
I beg to differ with you on this issue. On a 64 bit operating system on
64 bit hardware, how many bytes is void* ? It's 8 bytes. On 32 bit,
it's 4 bytes. You also have the ability to access more resources (such
as more threads, which make sense in some cases - on the FreeSWITCH
project we recommend everybody to use 64bits when possible, as
FreeSWITCH is heavily multithreaded).
It's not just the older AMD Athlon64's that have more CPU registers.
All CPUs that fully support x86_64 have additional CPU registers that
the 32 bit processors do not have.
I prefer to Rip and transcode my DVD personaly, as I put my films on a
server which some computers in my home connects to through wifi. DVD
bitrate is in my experience a bit too high to be streamed properly in
wifi, while MPEG4 files, which are 4 times slower at the same image
quality, are.
With today's quad-core systems, transcoding a DVD is a business that
lasts about the same duration as the film, so it's no big deal. And
it's also easier to move the files around, for instance to make backups.
Are you doing single-pass or two-pass? What are you using as your MPEG4
encoding option? (ffmpeg, xvid, x264) Just curious.
-Mishehu
