So I got my Sony PSP last week, and over the weekend I was using ffmpegX to convert some DVD's into a format that would play on the PSP memory stick:
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/ But it was god-awful slow--on my ancient iBook (600 MHz G3 w/ 640 MB RAM) it took upwards of 8 hours to convert one 2-hour DVD into the MP4 format that the PSP accepts. Made me wonder--how much horsepower would I need to do this kind of video conversion in a reasonable time? Basically I'm wondering if I have to spend the coin for a big G5 box to make these conversions happen in an hour or so, compared to the 8 hours it's taking now. Or could I get by with maybe a used G4 instead for this kind of task? --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
