I know that the general rule is not to multitask while you encode. BUT, I am curious... I have a Dell laptop with a Pentium M 1.6GHz processor w/ 2MB L2 cache and 1GB 533MHZ DDR2 SDRAM. I am going to upgrade to 2GB RAM. At this point, will it be possible to transcode/burn projects with Recode2 or CloneDVD2 (writing TEMP files on one HD) while processing an encode with DVD-RB w/CCE in low priority mode (source and output on other two HDs) simultaneously?
PS: Wasn't sure whether to post here or in the DVD Rebuilder forum since this post encompasses multiple applications.
thats a pretty tall order. it might be possible but u would be taking a chance. i havent tried to encode two movies at once but i have burned dvds with multiple drives at the same time. it wasnt much faster if any, than just burning with one. im waiting for the athalon dual core 64 bit cpus to come down in price, i think u could do it with one of those, no problem. as far as the ram goes, when i went from 1gb to 2gb i couldnt tell much difference when i encoded movies.
you could always just add more power supplies !!! lol (to the laptop)
remember that thread ?? even though the guy was talking about the burn and speeds itself... but i could not resist, it was the right place at the right time !!! lol
I am running a p4 3.4 w/htt, 2.25 gigs of pc2 4200 ddr- sodimm ram, 120 gigs of hdd space turning at 5400rpm and windows xp sp2. My ignorance allowed me to encode/rip/burn up to 4 different projects at a time with no visable errors so far. (about 150 discs) the only coasters i got were due to inexperience. Now i still rip/encode more than 1 project at a time but am more careful with the burns.
