Video transcoding/encoding speed

[CanadianZ]

I have a P4 2.4 Ghz (800Mhz FSB) with HT and 512 Mb of RAM and a Radeon 9200 video card. If I use cloneDVD 2 for conversion it usually takes me about 15 minutes to transcode a DVD and DVD Rebuilder takes about 3 hours for the entire process.

I was wondering what is the bottle neck in my system for trans/encoding?? How much can I expect to see in performance by upgrading my CPU or memory?? Is the video card used much during conversion??

Thanks for the help. Just thinking of upgrading for bit more speed.

CanadianZ

[Faustus]

800mhz FSB? Well then CPU upgrades will have minor difference. Overall your likely fine. It takes me about 2 and a half ours on my 3000+

[CanadianZ]

800mhz FSB? Well then CPU upgrades will have minor difference. Overall your likely fine. It takes me about 2 and a half ours on my 3000+

I believe all Hyperthreading P4's are 800Mhz Front side bus. I donb't know how much the hyperthreading is helping me though.

CanadianZ

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No HT support with DVD Rebuilder and CCE AFAIK

[ViRaL1]

The P4 3.06/533 supports HT. It was the first one to do so and the only non 800FSB chip to do so as well.

[rallynavvie]

Prestonias are also 533 FSB HT CPUs

Encoding is still all clock frequency dependent. More GHz mean faster encodes all else being equal. Higher FSB doesn't help much at all with encoding.

I'm eagerly awaiting 64-bit encoders. I may be getting my first Opteron system then *drool*