Are slow processors really this crappy?

[CrystalSuicune]

I have a "wonderful" pentium 1 232 mhz...and my brother said I can basically forget converting an .avi to .mpg then burning it. Suposedly the problems I had converting an avi (it made the movie go from 1 hour 15 minutes to 3 hours of nothing) were all the fault of my cpu. He also said I couldnt get a working gba emulater, but I did. So are they really that much of crap?

[fmctm1sw]

I have a "wonderful" pentium 1 232 mhz...and my brother said I can basically forget converting an .avi to .mpg then burning it. Suposedly the problems I had converting an avi (it made the movie go from 1 hour 15 minutes to 3 hours of nothing) were all the fault of my cpu. He also said I couldnt get a working gba emulater, but I did. So are they really that much of crap?

A Pentium 233 is pretty weak dude. And that's coming from a guy that only has a celeron 366 (@433). Not just because of the number either. I think that is still based on the old socket-7 form factor? I use my computer solely for the use of capping and converting and it takes about 5-1/2 hours for every 1 hour for VCD and about 10 hours per hour if I go SVCD. If you have an ATX case, you may be able to upgrade your motherboard and chip relatively cheaply and get yourself into the low end of the ball game (with me)....

[pacmania_2001]

I only have a Celeron 400 and it suits me perfectly fine for most of the tasks I want to do. Sure it takes 8-10 hours to convert an AVI to an SVCD but all I do is leave it on over night.

Moral of the story= If it does the stuff you want in a time you can accept than it doesnt need changing

[tenders]

Moral of the story= If it does the stuff you want in a time you can accept than it doesnt need changing

i agree

[tgpo]

I'm perfectly happy with my 450mhz Mac. It takes a little longer than the newer G4s, but I can just as easily encode over night.

[zzyzzx]

When my 450Mhz system went up in smoke (literally) my new MB and CPU are also Socket 7 variety with a 500Mhz AMD processor. If I had to it again now I'd probably get a used Baby-AT MB/CPU cheap off eBay and keep on using my vintage 1994 AT style case. I can leave my computer on overnight all I want.

[loveturtleozark]

I think I read somewhere that if a processor could not execute enough filter comands at once then the actuall encoding degrades
so the slower processor would produce a worse video than a fast one

[vitualis]

That doesn't sound right...

Except possibly for real-time encoders.

For software based encoders, a slow CPU will not affect the quality. It'll just take a lot longer to get there.

Regards.