So everyone has some new systems...here are mine, with a 2.33GHz E5410 Running Slackware (8 real cores, 16GB quad channel EEC FB-DIMM DDR2-666)
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 99.75 % (264.37 fps, avg 262.39 fps, ETA 00h00m00s)[14:07:21] reader: done. 1 scr changes
[14:07:21] work: average encoding...