F*O*A*D wrote:
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plastic is obsolete technology.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.
Modern programmers actually suck a lot. They use crappy modern versions of
"C" that are nowhere as efficient ias the original "C". There is so much
bloat in the software, and as the OS gets even more bloated to make some
small visual change, the code will bloat even more. when WordPerfect
brought out it's first Windows version, it was 27 MByte and slow as hell.
They cleaned it up a little and got it down to approx 23 mbyte. This is
when disk space cost a $100+ a megabyte. Now with cheap disk space! cheap
PC's there is no incentive to write efficient code. Prime example was
Opera browser, did everything the major browsers did, but way faster, and
way less code. You now need a quad core, multi-gigahertz processor to do
what was done with half the memory, and half the processor speed. Code
bloat. I use an iPad for most things. Power close to an early mainframe.
Does less than 1/2 the stuff it should be able to. Because Apple crippled
it. So you would buy a $2000+ desktop. And lots of software. And why are
breaking the copyright laws ripping movies? An "author" ignoring
copyrights?