Higher speed processor help in video quality..

[karhooi]

I wonder if i have a pentium and a Pentium4-HT processor, which one will produce better video quality that both using the same parameters in encoding. Or it is just the encoding time different..? I am trying to produce better quality video and think if the processor can help a little..!

[DivXExpert]

The processor will only make it go faster.

[gll99]

There can be audio/video synch issues when a processor is overworked.
When I tried to do something else while converting a DVD I noticed some synch errors. When I leave it alone the output is ok. I have a P4 1.6 with 512 DDR 333 (2700) ram. I wonder if I had a P4 2.8 if this would be an issue. It may be that the problem is a bottleneck someplace else such as the HD but it's hard to know for sure.

When capturing your own video it can make a lot of difference.

As to video quality during processing... Some apps are specifically designed with features or plugins only available with certain processors such as SSE SSE2 bicubic resizing. Whether or not that counts as a quality enhancement or is purely a speed improvement using a more advanced instruction set I do not know but it's the only thing that comes to mind.

Other than that I have to agree with DivXExpert.