minimum system requirements

[silentshadow420]

taxed pc

have you checked to see how much ram you can put in the new box? ram is getting increasingly cheap especially with the tech industry having a major recession. I would see if you could max out your system and then change all video work over to the faster pc. think of how insane the wait is for an individual movie with a weak pc. (9-10 days processing) but your pc is a little faster than my old 233 p2 80mb. have you networked your pc's? i've been doing all of my wave processing on my slower machine = smaller processor, while processing video on my faster one. it works good. my audio is completly edited,encoded, and ready to be muxed long before the video is even close. but again audio is nothing in respect to time.

[Enchanter]

My system is fast enough for video processing, though I've always strongly felt the temptation of switching from my current Williamette to Northwood processor.

[benedict]

Thanks

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed, but I may be getting that new box a lot sooner than I thought. After some burning on it, I'll see if can't run a few benchmarks (video and 3-D graphics rendering) on both systems and report back on them. And heck, if the new one seems to bog down at all, RAM ain't THAT expensive.

[Batman]

Ram makes a big difference, if you can go for 256 mb of ram DDR or Rambus. The problem with celerons, which differentiates them from the P4, is the cache, or thereof, lack of cache. The cache really cripples the performance of Celerons, especially the new 1.7ghz chip

Well i'm finally catching up, I live on a P200 (can't do anything), but today I'm getting a fast notebook I'll start my adventures in digital video soon

[silentshadow420]

new notebook

~>batman<~
just out of curiosity how do you get so many posts without a workable system? your p200 should work but it will take up all the resources for weeks. forget about doing anything else. no surfing, no winamp, nothing. my p233 is stuggling to use the new peer to peer file transfer networks with out any video work. i've been temped to dl the divx for amiga and trying to turn my really old 486 into a designated media player. chances are it will drag beyond acceptability, but i think it would be interesting to try. anyways i think the what i've taken from this string is that the majority of the weaker pc's will work, but it is so time consuming that it would not be the way to learn video. turn around time to notice errors are rediculas. i believe if you have the extra pc and the knowledge already then it might be a interesting side project, but if it is your only pc. no need trying due to this will take all of your pc time. anyways i will stop babling and get back to work
thanks again everybody for submitting your oppinions to my poll. keep them coming. haven't finished my research on this subject. lets see if we can get more idea's on the specific programs and there processing times at lower resources. my research tells me so far that flask is good for lower end pc's. i've done some work with virtual dub, but i was unable to tell if it worked or not.

[Batman]

Yeah I'm surprised my self, that i have so many posts, rather ironic, when you consider my obsolete system. Nope, unfortunately, this is my only PC, right now. I'll be getting a new one rather soon though, so that's some bright news I've been conducting minor vcd and divx trials, hence so many posts probably, and I've learned something everyday from other members which I pass on.


I use P2p software, to "hoard" or "save" divx until I get a decent PC, which I'm hoping is soon. It works fine most of the time, except Kazaa lite, which is a bit difficult to manage. it takes a lot of system resources.
I can still watch divx with (352x288) res: here's what I do, close all background apps, reduce colour to 16 bit, and desktop area to 640x480, vcd's and mpeg-1's work great. But not svcd's.

[jimfiel57]

I have a crappy old system which is a

AMD k6II 350mhz
64mb ram
4mb video card
win 95

i can still rip and burn baby oh yeah, verrryyyy slowwww but at least it works.

Use smartripper and flask

[Enchanter]

Use smartripper and flask

You will soon hear advices from others. I'll leave it to them to say it to you.

[johnbmx4christ]

I'll say it...kind of like smart ripper and ANYTHING but flask?

[Enchanter]

Exactly. Flask is good for beginners, but those who want better quality (and have learned more about video encoding from Flask) would want to move on to better programs, like GordianKnot and nandub.

p.s. In the end, I'm the one giving the advice.

[Batman]

Doom9.org regularly reviews encoding programs. You should check out the forum there and his latest guides/reviews.

[xviddivxoggmp3]

slow pc's

p233 hz
80mb ram
win98b
slow as shit
encodes good video though