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On 4/1/14, 1:23 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:53:41 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/31/14, 8:39 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:55:44 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/31/14, 7:49 PM, wrote:

Do any DVD encoding?

I have no problem burning DVDs. (Copying them, stripping off the
trailers, remastering to strip the DRM, reformatting the video file or
whatever)
I am really getting away from DVD tho. I think any media on bits of
plastic is obsolete technology. I haven't fooled with music CDs for
close to a decade.
About the only thing I use them for is storing drivers and some tools
for when you are building a machine before it gets smart enough to
talk on the network.

Yes, well, on a modern computer with a modern OS, DVD encoding takes
place...faster. A lot faster. And encoding is a tad more than copying or
burning DVDs or stripping out DRM.

I have made video files (going from AVI or MOV to WMV). This goes
pretty fast on a dual core 2.5mz machine or even a regular P4 3.0

It is certainly not $800 worth of new machine to save a minute once a
month or so.

I would want to see the speed before I bit anyway.
You are still talking about speed, not the OS.
On the same machine, XP would go faster than W8. If nothing else, you
would have more available RAM after the OS loaded

The time savings available when encoding with a modern computer and OS
is considerable, not just a minute, and the OS certainly is involved. Do
you think that programmers do not write code that takes advantage of
developments and improvements in the OS, as well as in the hardware?

I won't comment on the relative speed of an app running under XP versus
Windoze 8. I don't have any machines handy that run either.