NT4,98,ME,2000 ?

[dav]

Hi I'm just about to update my struggling P3 500 to a shiny new P4 1.7GHz. My question is this, which operating system offers best enviroment for creating SVCD's.

I'm not interested in games at all for the PC, just looking to be able to run Premiere 6, DVDx, TMPGEnc, AVISynth.

Thanks

[Braindrain]

98SE or 2k. If you're capturing, use NTFS and 2k. You can capture any size files then. ME screws up on some proggys that work fine with 98SE. e.g. Premiere and VideoStudio crash every once in a while.

[dav]

I will be capturing from DV.

I suppose 2k will be more stable as well, or is that too much to hope for?

[Vejita-sama]

win2k should be more stable but I can crash either of them. That might be because I don't have win2k drivers for all my stuff and I run a lot of 'off 3rd party soft/hardware.'

win2k doesn't have the 2GB AVI file size limit (on a NTFS drive).

[kinneera]

I'm no huge MS fan, but on the whole, Win2K seems to run more stably than Win98...

[Beretta]

Win2k most certainly does have a 2GB .avi limit. The only time you can create .avi's larger than 2GB is if you are using an OpenDML compliant codec, but if you try to use something like Indeo you'll slam into the 2GB barrier on Win2k just like on any other system.

If you don't care about games, then Win2k is the way to go. do yourself a favor and get a dual CPU motherboard, so you can take advantage of the dual processor support.