Posted by Steve(JazzHunter) on 09/21/05 22:21

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 05:07:20 +0300, "Jukka Aho" <jukka.aho@iki.fi>
wrote:

>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.


I agree entirely, and in addition I must say that CCE is the
best-quality encoder available, and faster than many. Shnaggletooth
would probably be perfectly happy with the results from 3-passes, but
otherwise shouldn't change a thing that he is doing.

... Steve ..

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