<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Unless I'm mistaken, X2 chips are just dual core processors. Nuvexport<br>> is only single-threaded, so the second core will idle. The only real<br>> gain you can see is from the increase in speed of a single core. Dual
<br>> core will allow you do run two jobs at once however, so commflag on one<br>> core and export some other show on a second core.<br>><br>Your processor is still pretty fast in single threaded applications as<br>
it runs at 2.2GHz to improve upon this speed you need a chip X2 chip<br>that runs at a higher frequency or wait till the end of the year for a<br>K10 processor. Also the problem may be not cpu but hard drive or<br>memory. As transcoding seems to stress these components a lot.
<br><br>The question is what what are you using nuvexport to do? I mean for me<br>with a 2.4GHz Opteron (4GB of ram) a 1 hour show recorded at 720x480<br>takes mytharchive less than 15 minutes to process and this includes
<br>writing to a 4X dvd +rw.<br><br>John<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I am just saving my favorite shows to an Archive server over NFS until the DVDs come out.<br><br clear="all">Also, I am using mencoder, also I am using multipass, therefore nuvexport goes over the same material twice.
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