Don't mean to be picky but....

[dougry]

I came in late...

I think the computer froum is very much needed. The people in these forums are experts in video conversion. As everyone knows it takes a really good computer to do so. So, like myself I built a computer to handle the load of encoding video. So if you have bought or built a good computer you must have some background with A+ or self taught. So if you can help someone build the computer first, and hen discuss conversion later. Had I known that my 366 would take 24 hours to encide 2 hours of video, I never would have tried.

Anyways. Experts at video conversion. Experts at computer hardware.

[gmatov]

Dougry,
Now, you don't mean that, do you? Fortunately, you were able to scrape up the cash to upgrade.

A lot of people can't do that, and do capture and conversion with relatively slow computers.

I did my first captures with an AMD 350. The captures sometimes locked up, I restarted. The rendering to MPEG took almost forever. But I kept going.

If you check the CompDetails above the posts, you will see that there are a good many people on this site who still have slow machines. It doesn't keep them from trying. And, I'm sure they will get a better machine when thay can afford it.

Until then, learn how to get a little better with the tools at hand.

Hell, you're probably dissatisfied with that 1.7 of yours, by now.

[dougry]

There are always going to be exception. But some have high-end, top-dollar computers whether bought or built. But surely you see what I mean. The ones enoding know what kind of computer it takes to do so. Hard to get the words.
Down and dirty. I would ask any of these people here about computers than any other site because these people here are putting their computer under a lot of strain. Like me they wanted more memory, faster cpu, DVD-R, better video card. And these people can share that info.

[gmatov]

Dougry,

OK, granted, the guys here will help you with most any video problem, and most any strictly computer related problem, as well.

There is a tendency to a little too much "this is the best, yours is junk", known as prejudice.

The problem with the one-sidedness is that those who will preach A have never had experience with B or C. Sometimes I wonder if anyone has ANY experience with the other platform since the 3 or 400 mhz processors, no, maybe a little higher, when the processors were no longer interchangable, post-Super Socket 7.

When Intel and AMD went separate ways, they opened up a war of the users, and today the twain cannot meet on CPUs.

The same goes, if you notice, for capture cards, for burners, for blank DVDs, for brands and rotational speeds of HDDS, for 2 vs 8 meg of cache, on and on and on..

Oh, well, let us have some interesting conversations.

Cheers,

George

[dougry]

I agree,

But if I need to know what DVD-R has done well in real time situations. I come here. If I need to know what is a reliable DVD media, I come here. None of that has anything to do with video conversion. But once you've convertetd .avi to DVDr, what then. You want to put it on DVD. Somebody here has already done it.

I had to learn so much about hardware to do good, fast video conversion. So although I can give some advice conversion, I picked up the hardware on the way. If I can save you from a pitfall, I would be to.

I could go to some computer help site. But who knows what those people are doing. If they are an internet and email kind of person, then something in the 300Mhz would be great for them. If I want real computer data I can use under intensive encoding, come here.

[flaninacupboard]

The problem with the one-sidedness is that those who will preach A have never had experience with B or C.

This is very true, people lay into Apple MAC's, they lay into Intel and they lay into AMD. happens all the time.

As for arguments/flamewars happening on here, i don't think so. While people who use their system for gaming may pop onto a forum for 8 minutes a day to call everyone in the GeForce FX forum wankers, that's it. They then piss off and play games for the rest of the day. Wheras here, if you don't substantiate and apologise, you get warned and banned. Plus we -have- to get along nicely because we're all here for hours a day waiting for our super-fast computers to -finally- finish the 9th pass on that video you shot at the weekend.