How many divx movie do you have?

[CanOWorms]

When you rip DVDs & get divx movies, do you lose any quality? Do you lose the audio 5.1 or DTS?

0 divx, ~150 DVDs (bought at under $4 a piece)

 

[jaybert]

You could encode as many movies at once if you wanted...but considering just encoding 1 takes 100% cpu, when encoding 2, each would have a 50/50 CPU split, hence twice as slow. If you do three, it'd be a 33/33/33 split, hence 3 times slower. Seeing how your english is so terrible, I'll just assume your math is just as bad. If there were 4 it'd be a 25/25/25/25 split, hence 4 times slower. This is considering the priorities on each of these processes are the same and one of them is not taking 99% of the CPU while the other is taking only 1%.

 

[dingdongdingdong]

ha ha ha finnally i got you jaybert you don't know how to use vidomi program lol
vidomi program can let you chose vobfile there for you can convert 1to 10 movie or more at the same time cost this program convert 1 vob file at the same time. so all you have to do is add all vob file to there and convert it after it done use virtualdud split it dude

 

[dingdongdingdong]

hey CanOWorms
yet it losse quality compare to dvd but not alot just depend what is your setting is if you set high bit rate than you are hardly notice it about audio quality if you chose mp3 than yet it cannot compare to dts

 

[tenest]

damn.... jaybert beat me to it....

100% CPU utilization is 100%... you cant get anymore. so a program that could you let encode more than one file at a time really wouldnt be any faster than queing up a bunch of files to encode sequentially.

so considering that each movie file takes around 3 times the length of the movie (on a 1gig machine), each movie is 1.5 hours long and you have 3 machines....

40 * 1.5 = 60hours of movies
60 * 3 = 180 hours of encoding
180/3 = 60 hours of encoding for each of your 3 machines

so even if your machine COULD go a bit faster, you're still looking at a MINIMUM of 48 hours of encoding for each machine, and that's assuming that they are doing NOTHINg else for the straight 48 hours...

the only way you could get around that is if you have your quality settings really, really low. then you could do it in 2 days, but your quality is crap...

 

[durin]

<< When you rip DVDs &amp; get divx movies, do you lose any quality? Do you lose the audio 5.1 or DTS?

0 divx, ~150 DVDs (bought at under $4 a piece) >>


of course you lose quality, you are going from a 6 gig movie to a 500 meg or whatever one - and you lose dts and 5.1. if you already own the dvds there is really no point in converting to divx, i just get them when i want to see a movie once and then trash it.

as for dingdong - what jason is trying to say is, it doesn't matter how many movies you encode at once, it will still go the same speed because your cpu is at 100% - if that program encodes more than one at once each movie is taking 50% of the cpu available instead of 100% which wouldn't make it any faster.

 

[jaybert]

thanks durin....at least theres 1 more reasonable person posting in this forum.



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<< When you rip DVDs &amp; get divx movies, do you lose any quality? Do you lose the audio 5.1 or DTS?

0 divx, ~150 DVDs (bought at under $4 a piece) >>


of course you lose quality, you are going from a 6 gig movie to a 500 meg or whatever one - and you lose dts and 5.1. if you already own the dvds there is really no point in converting to divx, i just get them when i want to see a movie once and then trash it.

as for dingdong - what jason is trying to say is, it doesn't matter how many movies you encode at once, it will still go the same speed because your cpu is at 100% - if that program encodes more than one at once each movie is taking 50% of the cpu available instead of 100% which wouldn't make it any faster. >>

 

[worth]

I think I understand what dingdong wants to say--He just lets it convert 4 movies at the same time before he goes to bed, so he doesn't have to wake up every 4 hours and encode a new movie--of course it converts slower, but you don't have to worry about adding a new movie to convert.

 

[worth]

Oh, and I don't have any divix movies because when my brother is at college he gets free DVD rentals

 

[dingdongdingdong]

thank worth
that is what i mean

 

[jaybert]

Dont forget the 30minutes each for the actual dvd ripping part


<< damn.... jaybert beat me to it....

100% CPU utilization is 100%... you cant get anymore. so a program that could you let encode more than one file at a time really wouldnt be any faster than queing up a bunch of files to encode sequentially.

so considering that each movie file takes around 3 times the length of the movie (on a 1gig machine), each movie is 1.5 hours long and you have 3 machines....
111
40 * 1.5 = 60hours of movies
60 * 3 = 180 hours of encoding
180/3 = 60 hours of encoding for each of your 3 machines

so even if your machine COULD go a bit faster, you're still looking at a MINIMUM of 48 hours of encoding for each machine, and that's assuming that they are doing NOTHINg else for the straight 48 hours...

the only way you could get around that is if you have your quality settings really, really low. then you could do it in 2 days, but your quality is crap... >>

 

[Marty]

What is this DivX you speak of?

Marty

 

[PsychoAndy]

Bah you bastard share the wealth!!!

I have somewhere around 25-50 CD's, and i'm always lookin for more. Only problem is that i'm afraid to ask this one guy who I know who is in an FTP club with craploads of movies

 

[crt1530]

<< ^---haha..thats from another thread...you're so FULL of SH!t! >>



Nice call, jaybert. 10 IDE drives in a RAID setup, eh? Go nef somewhere else.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

<< I have about 100 DivX movies. I know there is already an Anandtech FTP ring, but that is tough to sift through, is anyone interested in starting a DivX-only ring? PM me if you are interested.

Marty >>



:|

booty

 

[Marty]

Done and done.

Marty

 

[Healey]

I haven't started playing around with divx yet, but it sounds interesting.

What site can I go to to learn more about divx and dl the programs?

What's the quality like?

How much space do they take up?

How avail are they online?

Thanks!

 

[phillippe]

<< jaybert don't you know how to use vidomi program dude it can let convert 2 or 3 movie as the sametime than leave the pc alone lol
if i don't use that pc i can program it convet 4 movie at the sametime if i want too >>




no offence but the video produced by vidomi looks like crap, I did a few encodes with it and the outcome looked no better the Flask which ain't very good. I have now done 21 rips with Nandub and the video it produces looks great compared to Vidomi and Flask but it does takes twice as long, about 6 hours to encode because it does 2 pass vbr and it can be a pain to configure but its worth it. If you want quality and not quantity I was suggest you try Nandub.

 

[rmblam]

I've gotten good results using Smartripper, DVD2AVI (no sound), Graphedit (sound ripper), then Virtualdub. Flask sucks.


great info here

 

[HardcoreRobot]

flask does suck - gives me tons of scan lines and bad audio sync. it is easy 2 use tho, so that is a plus for tha newbies

 

[Cucoo]

Don't have any yet....
Want to learn how to....
Please give some pointers....TIA

 

[wolf550e]

about 60 but they are all good movies and high quality dvd rips.

 

[abu]

<< between my 150Gb vcd/svcd ftp, and my roomates 150 Gb DivX ftp, we've lost count of how many we've gone through. We only burn the good movies, everything else just get deleted. We're gona make a DivX player this year, so that'll be neat. >>



Hey shazbot... interested in trading FTP accounts? (you wont be dissapointed )

PM me if interested...

thanks

 

[MrCodeDude]

I've downloaded 2 and a Half Family Reunions so far today. Then again, I only have a few others that I got from my mom's work
I'm going to say around 10 - 15 Family Reunions
-- mrcodedude

 

[virtuamike]

I wonder how fast dual Athlons can encode? Hint hint Anand for your next MP review . . .