Posted by sbt on 11/16/22 11:36

In article <cOYuf.108549$J11.2266844@wagner.videotron.net>, NRen2k5
<napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Warren Oates wrote:
> > In article <slrndro4jf.96a.nospam@debian.dns2go.com>,
> > Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
> >>The opinion(s) you pushed were all of a "Macs rule and windows drool"
> >>type
> >
> > But that's true ...
>
> Actually, I'd like to see how some Macs compare to my PC when it comes
> to encoding DivX movies. Purely out of curiosity.
>

Having done a lot of that sort of thing, we would need to start with
the same content and have the same target framesize and framerate. Even
with those conditions set, it will depend largely on which DivX encoder
we each chose to use. If I use the one from the folks at DivX, I get a
different encoding speed than I do from the one that comes with Toast,
which is still a different speed from either the mencoder or ffmpeg
DivX encoding tools in ffmpegX. I'm reasonably certain that similar
differences between encoders exist on the Windows side (they do on the
Linux side, too).

Starting with "DV Stream" content of 58 minutes duration (came from a
miniDV camcorder), I got a 1236 kbps 720x480 DivX (NTSC Film framerate
of 23.976) in just under 42 minutes using ffmpegX on a dual 2GHz G5.

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Spenser

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