--- In [email protected], Scott <scot...@...> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 06:24:05AM -0000, Paul wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Roy <linuxcanuck@> wrote: > > > > > > It depends on your needs. If you plan on ripping DVDs for example that > > > alone can eat up 9 GBs of temporary space. > > > > > > > You must have one awesome computer if you need data faster than a DVD drive > > can supply it when you encode! Or are you making DVD copies? > > > > I took as meaning making a DVD from a media file. For example, of > course, a spouse asking you to copy a DVD that her dance school did of > the childrens' performance, i.e., completely legitimately. > > --
I was simply trying to clear up some ambiguity and now everyone brings up legitimacy. Its all ones and zeros to me so I don't care about any of that. Plus I'm pretty sure most everyone has the right to make a back up copy for archival purposes anyways. I asked because I wasn't sure. I've personally never copied a DVD so I figured maybe that is where the 9 GB comes into play. Though I've encoded a fair amount and I don't need to copy the VOB in order to do that. Really doing so has been a complete waste of time for me. This is plenty fast enough: hdparm -tT /dev/sr0 /dev/sr0: Timing cached reads: 9420 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4712.82 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 28 MB in 3.19 seconds = 8.78 MB/sec Though maybe if I compile my codecs to multithread that could change. I'll have to get around to doing it someday just to see it. I just looked (used htop) at what my distro threw me and I can't tell now if I am or I'm not. Though it is unlikely the binaries I've installed presently are configured to multithread. I can't really complain now either: mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=740:vhq -ffourcc XVID Sample.mpg -o Sample.avi Pos: 315.8s 7575f (100%) 715.36fps Trem: 0min 36mb A-V:0.038 [733:224] $ ls -lh Sample* -rw-r--r-- 1 pfred1 pfred1 37M Dec 26 09:35 Sample.avi -rw-r--r-- 1 pfred1 pfred1 53M Nov 16 2010 Sample.mpg 10 seconds, 3 or 4 seconds I'm not in that much of a rush. But I suppose I'll still have to do it like I said just to see it. But when I do it I want to upgrade my system's packages and that should prove to be a little time consuming for me. I've more pressing matters to deal with first though. Anyone here good dealing with udev? Paul ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
