Does CPU power Effect Quality?

[neilc]

I've been using TMPGnc to process video captured on a Pentium 200 MMX. I know its underpowered.

Captured quality is fine (via Firewire). However, when I process, the sound is scratchy, has echo, etc. Like an 8 bit recording.

I've tried ToolLame and SSRC with no luck.

I managed to get the audio extracted to Wav, via Ulead Audio Editor. then I ran TMPGnc with ToolLame. Quality was fine, but out of sync.

ToolLame and SSRC don't seem to work at the same time.

I cannot get VirtualDub to open any of my captured AVIs.

Is it the CPU? Does TMPGnc put more emphasis on video processing, leaving little CPU processing power to the audio?

The reason I ask is that I can process the video/audio, with TMPGnc, on my wife's Pentium III and the quality is fine. Just can't access that machine much!

Thanks

[xzarkad]

As far as I know; software programmers say that the minimum requirement is; 400-500 Megaherz AMD or Pentium.

I have encoded with a 750 AMD and a 1400 AMD. I did not see a difference in quality, only in encoding speed.

[kinneera]

Your CPU speed cannot affect the quality of digital encoding operations, it can only affect the encoding time. It sounds to me like your playback codec is of poor quality - there was a fairly involved thread about a similar problem a while ago, and the decoder turned out to be the problem, not the encoder.

[neilc]

The playback problems were witnessed on my DVD player through the TV, rather than the computer.

Thanks