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Posted by Jukka Aho on 09/19/05 02:07
The Wizard wrote:
>> As I'm typing this, The FilmMachine is currently running in the
>> background, converting (hopefully) two episodes for one DVD-5. Time
>> remaining: 5 hours. Urgh. And I don't even know how the quality will
>> turn out. (I'm using CCE as my encoder, with 4 passes).
> Well, There's the first mistake, Your PC is using a lot of processor
> to do the converting..You'll probably find parts of the picture
> unwatchable whilst your Hard Drive/Memory etc went into overdrive to
> open your mailing program! You should just leave your PC to do it's
> thing when converting or burning to disc.
Doing other things on the computer while running processor-intensive
background tasks (such as a software-based MPEG-2 encoder, as is the
case here) may cause lots of hard drive trashing, but doesn't degrade
the quality of the final output one bit.
The only things that _could_ affect the final outcome is if straining
the computer while burning the DVD (which may cause buffer underrun
problems) or while capturing from a DV tape (ditto, plus possibile I/O
sync problems). But straining the computer during software-based MPEG
encoding has no effect on the quality of the produced MPEG file.
--
znark
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