[mythtv-users] Upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit and maybe a distro switch?

[jedi]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:43:15PM -0400, Doug Lytle wrote:
> jedi wrote:
>>    That's a bit unexpected. I would imagine the bottlenck there would  
>> be the DVD drive and that speeding up the rest of the system really
>>   
>
> I guess my statement was in-accurate.  I should have said that  
> converting them to mpeg.  I rip to the ram disc and then convert them  
> with either DVD::RIP or AcidRip.

   That's very much a CPU bound process. The ramdisk probably doesn't
help there either. If you want quality it will take a while. If you 
don't then it's pretty easy to get transcode speeds of 200fps.

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