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July 03, 2005
Video capture, part XIX
transcode wolfs down CPU time like there's no tomorrow. Check out the drop off circled in yellow which is where transcode finished converting .avi to components for making an SVCD:
Even if you're burning standard DVDs, you still have to convert from DV to MPEG, and you'll probably use more CPU in a couple of hours of that than you'll use in weeks of gaming or years of desktop publishing.
What I don't get is that although a really usable, free home video application would be an absolute market maker for both Intel and AMD, you still have to buy a Mac if you're not a propeller head.
Posted by Mark at July 3, 2005 07:43 AM
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One other thing about trying to do this on Red Hat 9: updatedb for locate gets as much CPU as it wants. Whoever wrote locate should be commended for a really useful tool, but could you please think about priority for you database updates? Couldn't that just steal a cycle here and there? Why does it need to bring the system to it's knees?
Posted by: Mark at July 3, 2005 08:46 AM