Bear in mind thats what macs excell at ,and cross arch prob isnt a good reference... you can expect to rip/encode dvd's quicker on a 867 mhz powerbook than on a dual proc 2ghz AMD
Cheers Dale. On Friday 03 October 2003 11:59, you wrote: > My Mac G4 867Mhz takes about 3-4 hours to transcode about 1.5 hrs from .mov > or .avi too mpg for VCD in OS X... Hope this helps... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:22 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: transcoding dvd - how long should it take? > > > > > > On my athlon 1133 with 512MB RAM dvd::rip is telling me it wants to take > > about 6 hours to turn the ripped 1.5 hour dvd into svcd format (size > > of two cd's). > > > > Is this typical? It seems to be transcoding at aout 6 fps. It seems so > > slow. There is not much else going on on the box.
