[ExtractStream] More questions....

[Scott Alfter]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:24:41AM -0700, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> --- Michael Loftis <mloftis@w...> wrote:
> > I have an AMD Athlon XP1800+ (1.5something Ghz),
> 
> Yea, but do you have (2) of 'em??? The MP's are a little more
> internally optimized then the XP, from what I read on
> tomshardware.com, and TMPGenc can max both of 'em...

Does it really use both processors while encoding? One of my work machines
is a dual Athlon MP 1900+, and encoding time for a single video clip isn't
much faster than on the Athlon XP 1600+ on the other side of the desk. 
What I can do with it, though, is run two instances of TMPGEnc and encode
two clips at the same time...they both run at full speed. I think some of
the editing functions in TMPGEnc might use both processors, but I don't
think the core MPEG-encoding functions do that.

> > 5xUltra80 10KRPM drives 
> > chained to a two channel ICP Vortex GDT6528RS setup in RAID0
> > (Striping) for best performance,
> 
> Well, I have dual Ultra160 on the motherboard, it's non-raid. That
> doesn't stop me from mongospeed in Linux using software raid, but
> that doesn't help me much in Win2K where I do my video schtuff...
> <sniff>

I still use IDE for most things...the home system does have a pair of 60GB
120GXPs in software RAID-0 under Win2K, though, which hauls pretty nicely
for capture (Huffyuv-compressed AVI from an AIW Radeon) and editing. It
doesn't make nearly as much difference during encoding.

(The limiting factor at home now is the 1.0-GHz Athlon. It was a screamer
when I bought it 18 months ago, but the stepped-up rate at which I'm doing
video encoding now makes me want something faster. I can bring TiVo rips to
the faster machines at work on a FireWire hard drive, but a faster machine
at home would be nice. I thought I'd hold out for Hammer, but I'm getting
tempted to put in a dual Athlon MP at home.)

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