Do I need a PIII/500?

[]Bonkers[]

I was at the TMPG Enc. site and was looking at the requirements. I want to do some DVD Rip conversions to VCD (mpeg); however, I only have a Celeron 400 with 192mb ram, and whether or not this makes a difference 7200RPM HD. Has anyone ever tried it with this slow of a computer? Would it be worth install Win2k Professional?

[vivisimonvi]

I have a PII Celeron 366 Mhz with 192 RAM (running Win9. The only requirement for you would be patience. It takes me about 8 hours to encode 1 hour of footage in VCD format (under high quality motion search settings). Long conversions like these I tend do while I'm asleep. I don't think it matters what kind of HD you have as long as it has enough space. Never tried Win2K myself though, I don't think that would help TMPGEnc's conversion process though.

[ps6f]

It matters as far as speed, but I think the minimum requirements are about 300 mhz. Anything less isn't worth the time. I have a 300 mhz processor, a good amount of memory and a large harddrive, and its almost not worth the process. It really depends on how much electricity you're willing to pay for keeping your pc running.

[]Bonkers[]

Would it be better to use the Panasonic or LSX Encoder?

[buzzinhornets]

I had a P2 400mhz with 64mb sdram and a shite 5400rpm 6.4 gb hd, and TMPGENC worked fine... but it is a slow process, but that's just the way TMPHGENC is. SInce then I'm up 320ram and haven't really noticed TMPGENC speed up... just get use to the fact that it takes overnight to encode mpg and use the aTMPGENC batch encode feature and click shutdown after encodeing... then hit start b4 you go to sleep and in the morn it will be done.