What components in computer affect DVD ripping, Mpeg to VCD conversion?

[PeeluckyDuckee]

RDRAM bandwidth DDR bandwidth? Size of ram? Type of HD, SCSI vs IDE? CPU type? Say P4 1.9Ghz vs AMD XP 1900+?

What about video card type, does that have an affect on the process as well?

 

[Fardringle]

For direct ripping, the DVD drive and Hard Drive speeds are most important.

For encoding, CPU speed and memory bandwith are limiting factors.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

so which is better, Athlon XP 1900+ or P4 1.9Ghz? What about the motherboard FSB? 400mhz for a P4 or 266mhz for a Athlon, any difference?

 

[neuralfx]

what tools are you using? .. this question would get a better response from divx.net .. or doom9.net .. and flexion.org .. i would get the athlon system .. and use the extra money for netflix.com hehe ..
-neural

 

[VBboy]

CPU, Chipset (e.g. KT133 or KT266A), and RAM (bandwidth).

Check out TomsHardware.com - they have great Divx/Mpeg encoding benchmarks.

 

[Pabster]

1900+ is a good deal faster, not only in that particular area (MPEG renders) but across the board. There's no contest.

 

[Diable]

Pabster, you can't make a blanket statement that XP's are faster then P4's in every video encoding program because its not true. My old XP(1600+ on a K7S5A that died)was faster then my P4 in the following enoders:

CCE
bbMPEG
Panasonic's MPEG encoder
versions of TMPGenc pre 2.0

My P4 is faster in the following:

Ligos
GoMotion
TMPGenc version 2.0+.

The best encoder for SVCD's(MPEG2)is CCE and the best for VCD's(MPEG1)is TMPGenc so if you want to use CCE get the XP 1900+ and if you want to use TMPGenc get a P4.