Converting question

[vermilion]

I have a few questions for converting files, no matter what type they are.


When converting files under window XP, how much ram does the program use? More like those the porgram use so much ram that I wouldn't be able to get on the net, listen to music, or play a game.

Is it ok to do these things when converting if you have at least 512 MB of Ram?

[mats.hogberg]

I wouldn't worry about ram - it's more of a CPU thing. Games, decoding (listening) to MP3 takes a considerable amount of CPU power - and encoding sure wants all CPU it can take. On my 1.7 GHz system, I can't do much more CPU heavy work than chatting and reading my mail. Playing games (not counting Hearts) is totally out of the question.
Listening to MP3 works tho...
In TMPGEnc, I could set the process priority low, but then the encoding would take like forever, and games would not run smooth anyway, so...
/Mats

[vermilion]

So do you think I would be able to play a game while it's working with a p4 2.4 GHz?

[mats.hogberg]

No idea. Depends on a whole bunch of factors, like what game, what GFX board you've got etc. Just set process priority to low, and give it a try! I know the general concensus is to shut down as many processes as possible during encoding, but I've not seen any negative side effects in the encoding process when running other stuff, other than that it takes longer.

/Mats