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buraku

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25. December 2004 @ 22:26

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I will be upgrading my laptop soon to enable faster encoding of video. The types of things I do most often are:

Encoding mpg to xvid (for playback on dvp642 and to save space on dvds)
Re-encoding vids to remove qpel and gmc and to embed subtitles.
Exporting vbr to wav.
Re-encoding avi and other formats to mpeg-2.
Ripping dvds and encoding vob to avi and ac3 to mp3.

The tools I use most often:
vdub, tmpeg, vdub mod, all codecs, nandub, dvdshrink, dvdx, nero, dvd decrypter.

I use currently an s250 toshiba satellite with 60gb HD (unfortunately only 4200 rpm), 512kb ram (256 per slot), P4-M 2.8 GHZ, RW dvd drive, and an acom data 80gb external HD at 7200 rpm connected via usb 2.0.

I would like to know what upgrades will improve my encoding performance. I am think about upgrading to 2 pc2700 1gb sticks of ram (so freaking expensive though). Will this make a difference?

Also, would it be faster to encode from and to my external HD since it's faster than my internal, even though I have to pass through a usb 2.0 connection first, and would reformatting the external drive from fat32 to ntfs improve my performance?

Would switching to a firewire external HD be any better than usb 2.0?

And, are there any OS modifications I can try too that may speed things up? I am currently using xp.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this.

rip suprnova :(

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vato_loco

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26. December 2004 @ 12:56

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Umm

for this one its a bit tricky. Is this ur only PC? if yes
you could give it a try (its a good try), encoding and decoding should be fine...

You say you want to ripp dvds - is your drive internal or external?

The ram you have is fine (but if you want save up little by little and get it - - in about 3-5 months the price will drop)

Usb is faster ( approx.280 mb per sec)
Firewire is more accurate (but slower) (approx .220-240) mb per second

Keep up on the post

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buraku

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26. December 2004 @ 14:34

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yes, this is my only comp.

as far as my dvd burner goes, it is internal and slow, but i don't mind that much.

the main things i would like to improve are encoding and decoding after everything is already on my HD. i have no trouble doing them now, they just take a while.

so are you saying that increasing my ram will not make much difference?

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vato_loco

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28. December 2004 @ 18:15

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when it comes to playing with media,,, its all about how much money you want to spend...

Like if i were you "personally" i would give it a try

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