At 11:48 PM 1/21/2006, James Fadden typed:
My brother burns a lot
of DVD-Videos and complains about not being able to do much
else while the transcoding is going on. He was wondering
if it might be better with a dual-core system, not just speeding
up the process, but allowing you to do other things in the meanwhile.
I've also wondered the same thing but doesn't the transcoding app
have to be written to take advantage of dual-core &/or processor
system in order to take the fullest advantage of such a system? Maybe
that would only apply if one were only transcoding, but if one was
multitasking like checking email & such while the transcoding was
going on, then maybe one would NOT want the transcoding app written
to take the full advantage of the dual core system so that the
remaining cpu could be devoted to the other tasks. I suppose, at
least in theory, that an app can be too efficient for the given
situation altho we've certainly have not seen much of that yet. ;-)
Is anyone using a dual core system to transcode to DVDs?
Do you find that you are able to continue to use
the system while it's transcoding in the background? What
about during the actual burn process?
I've found it much more efficient use of my time if I do the
transcoding on another machine even tho this machine is the most
powerful one on my LAN even if I have to copy the captured file over
the LAN to the other machine first because I can keep on working.
There are just certain apps & things that we can do with them that
can bring a machine to it's knees no matter how much ram we have.
This is one reason why in Ulead Video Studio I make sure that I do
NOT recode compliant MPGs other than it's just wrong to recode
something that has already been encoded with the proper codec. It's
really unfortunate that it takes so much time because the lack of
time whether perceived or real is the very reason why people don't
try other codecs &/or filters to see if they can achieve the desired
effect resulting in so many saying that's good enough when it comes to videos.
Years ago I submitted a video of my Yorkie to Leo Laporte on TechTV
back when ZDnet had the channel & I used Cinepak codec when
apparently many others did not. I had several friends comment that my
video was clearer than most of the other clips when TechTV broadcast
the show but that was after many hours of experimenting with the
codecs back then. FWIW I still have the tshirt. ;-)
I've seen some peeps edit raw DV then upload it back to the camera
only to attach it to a stand alone dvd recorder & let that encode the
video because of the builtin hardware mpeg2 encoder.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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