What's the average system to make divx and vcd's or svcd's from a dvd movie.

[Azeroth]

Well i guess the title says it all.

 

[FrEstYle29]

what do u mean average? all i know, the lowest u should probably be at is around 500mhz. The faster the processor the better. It takes hellla long.

 

[Azeroth]

well i mean like minimum requirements to make this already named tasks.
Like what you need to run a game. xRAM xMHZ xHDD space, go it?

 

[Azeroth]

bump!

 

[KameLeon]

If you got time, you can do it on a pentium 166.
It'll just take longer..there are no specific requirements
Takes about 6 hours to convert from vob to divx, with flaskmpeg, for me. Athlon 700, 512mb ram.

 

[madthumbs]

Ram; You don't need a lot for this. Excess ram isn't gonna help. 64megs is probably a good amount (a guess).

Hard Drive; If you convert 1 VOB at a time you could possibly do it on a 2gig HD, but I would recommend at least a 10gig. If you need a new one get a 40-45 for about the same price. Speed shouldn't be a factor, but DMA will.

CPU; The biggest factor -speed will get you speed here!

DVD drive; Any should do fine, extraction can be sped up with a faster drive.

Video card; Not sure here, but you probably need at least a 4meg video card.

Sound card; For AC3 sound (DVD sound) you will need a sound card capable of 48000HZ or something like that. Although you could just convert to 44100 without playing the DVD at all.

 

[HomerSapien]

Is SMP used in encoding divx?

 

[RichardG]

To get alot of VCD questions answered, check out VCD Helper.

To answer the SMP divx question: Depends on the encoder you have. Windows media player encoder for version 7 can use SMP. Don't know about any others. My company just encoded a library of 131 videos for WMP at 7 different bandwidths for each video ranging between 20Kbps to 1400Kbps.