My PC Spec (is it good enough)?

[milanii]

Hi, i'm am thinking of putting some of my DVD's on to SVCD format.
Thing is I would like to know if my PC is up for the job?
My spec is:
Windows 98 (2nd edition)
CPU 650
168mb ram
cdrom 48x
DVDrom 16x
cdrw philips 12x8x32
and a very small harddrive 5 gig (yes, I know it's pityfull)!!
I'm going to use the "Step by step guide DVD Backup without having 8GB free" (VCD help).
Is my PC up to the job?? Or should I not bother??
Any help appreciated

[snowmoon]

I get about 2x realtime doing .avi conversion to SVCD with CCE. I have a PIII700 + 256MB of ram

[Mxjshaf69]

I think you are ok except i would get a cheap new hard drive, around 20 gb. I used to encode on my p3 500 Mhz with 128 mb ram with 16 gig HDD.

[ya_jai]

It might work alright, but I'm not sure how long your dvd-rom will last. With CPU 650 not sure if it P III or celeron, it will take about 5-6 hours to encode 1 hour movie. Anything elses in your system are fine nothing to worry about.

If it's possible you might consider to add or replace new hdd for more space.

[markadamwood]

Sorry,

But I think your hard drive is too small.

A normal movie ripped is normaly about 5GB.
Plus then for VCD/SVCD you need approx 1.5gb.

You then need to split the movie ie 2 x 720mb

You then need space on your hard drive to make the cd image file.

I know you could delete the initial 5gb after encoding, but the minimum you'll need would be 6.5GB and even with that it would be a difficult squeeze.

Hard drives cost next to nothing these days, in UK only about £50 for 30GB.

[offline]

You will be fine. Because of your HDD space you will have to use
one of the DVD ripping methods that process the movie directly from
your DVD rom drive. One such method is using DVDx which if I remember
is outlined in the How To section. This means, of course, that your
DVD rom drive is going to have to run ovenight and maybe then some.

I remember ripping my 1st DVD on a 233 MHz AMD K6 based
computer with 64 meg of ram and 3 gig of HDD space. It took 72 hours
to produce a VCD but it worked ..hehe

[milanii]

Thanks for all your help!!
I'm going to try "DVDX" hope my DVDrom is up to the job......

[kayfam]

milanii,
Just my opinion of course, but you'd be better off putting some money towards a new hard drive first. Going the "DVDX" route you’re going to place a tremendous strain on your DVD-ROM and could end up burning it up. Either way you’re going to end up buying a new drive.

[EricB]

The DVDx method also makes the DVD incredibly hot. If you are copying rentals I would be a little concerned that you might damage a disk.

Get a bigger drive.

[baker]

GET A NEW HD AND USE MY CVD GUIDE!!

Get a new hard drive and use my cvd guide. Follow the guide to the letter accept about half way through I put in a notice for advanced users,use that. IT takes up 3 cds insted of 2 but the quailty is fantastic and the speed is great. I have a 450mhz machine and have had no problems.

Baker