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So how long would it take for your i7 desktop to convert a dvd movie into an avi file? My P4 3.4HT takes forever. About 40-55 minutes.

Those benchmarks scores is foreign to me. Just give me a rough estimate in minutes.

It depends on the compression algorithm, the size of the DVD movie, the size of the .AVI and the quality of the end result.

But the P4 is like almost a decade old, ANY new CPU whether dual core or quad core will be a massive improvement beyond comprehension.

Edit:

Actually there are too many variables to consider, but ALOT faster.

Edit 2:

Personally I would rip the raw DVD straight to the hard disk, the quality will be better and you retain the 5 channel audio as well.

OK, it takes up a lot of space but 1 TB hard disks are cheap.
 
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TBH AVI as a container file sucks.
 

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Encoding isn't always that. For some it even means encoding a 100 MB TIFF file to a web-friendly JPEG that weighs a few hundred KB.
 

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Personally I would rip the raw DVD straight to the hard disk, the quality will be better and you retain the 5 channel audio as well.

OK, it takes up a lot of space but 1 TB hard disks are cheap.

there are better Formats than .AVI, .AVI is ancient, and its not updated if at all.
 

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So how long would it take for your i7 desktop to convert a dvd movie into an avi file? My P4 3.4HT takes forever. About 40-55 minutes.

Those benchmarks scores is foreign to me. Just give me a rough estimate in minutes.

I don't actually have i7 as of yet. But anyway, I haven't encoded anything to avi in ages, so I wouldn't be able to tell you anyway.

I do most of my encoding to 2-pass H.264 video/Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in mkv containers. Depending on the content and filters used, it usually takes just a little bit more than half the length of the movie being ripped on my QX9650. The i7 is something like 20% faster at the same speed as a Yorkfield in encoding.
 

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there are better Formats than .AVI, .AVI is ancient, and its not updated if at all.

You do realise that .avi is just a container, and that today's latest video formats such as DivX continue to use that container?
 

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It depends on the compression algorithm, the size of the DVD movie, the size of the .AVI and the quality of the end result.

But the P4 is like almost a decade old, ANY new CPU whether dual core or quad core will be a massive improvement beyond comprehension.

Edit:

Actually there are too many variables to consider, but ALOT faster.

Edit 2:

Personally I would rip the raw DVD straight to the hard disk, the quality will be better and you retain the 5 channel audio as well.

OK, it takes up a lot of space but 1 TB hard disks are cheap.
mkv containers support the full 5.1 audio.
 

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yes i know .avi is a container format, i'm just saying as a container file it is not as good as when it first came out due to probably not being updated for the times like DIVX/XVID are. Btw DIVX/XVID utilize MKV if im not mistaken
 

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yes i know .avi is a container format, i'm just saying as a container file it is not as good as when it first came out due to probably not being updated for the times like DIVX/XVID are. Btw DIVX/XVID utilize MKV if im not mistaken

It doesn't make a difference. All .avi has to do is hold the DivX and MP3 data, and stream it. Yes, you can drop DivX into any container, though .avi is the most popular container even today. Don't confuse container with a "format".
 

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mkv containers support the full 5.1 audio.

Indeed.

I'm not one for encoding myself, but if I download from a torrent, say a tv program I tend to look out for the MKVs because they usually retain the full 5.1 channels, which is great for my AV receiver.

But taking into account that I have a low-mid dual core and vbx has a Pentium 4, would ripping the DVD to the hard disk would be quicker than encoding a DVD to MKV?
 

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Indeed.

I'm not one for encoding myself, but if I download from a torrent, say a tv program I tend to look out for the MKVs because they usually retain the full 5.1 channels, which is great for my AV receiver.

But taking into account that I have a low-mid dual core and vbx has a Pentium 4, would ripping the DVD to the hard disk would be quicker than encoding a DVD to MKV?

Just flat ripping the DVD to disc is much faster. If you have the space for it, why not?

Personally, i rip to H.264 because I usually fill my hard drive before I can afford another one. I need that compression. lol.
 

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Okay, lets say you ripped an ISO to the computer, then convert that ISO to .mkv. How long would it take for an i7 powered desktop to convert that file to a .mkv. It takes about the same time. Almost an hour to convert a 2.5gb iso to a 1gb mkv.

The i7's should be able to do it in what? 10mins or less?
 
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Okay, lets say you ripped an ISO to the computer, then convert that ISO to .mkv. How long would it take for an i7 powered desktop to convert that file to a .mkv. It takes about the same time. Almost an hour to convert a 2.5gb iso to a 1gb mkv.

The i7's should be able to do it in what? 10mins or less?












 

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BTA if you want to get technical with it...

here is a quick reference, the 3 letter abbreviation at the end of a file is known as the format/ file name extension

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_format_(digital)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format

If you really read, understood, and knew what was in those articles, you wouldn't have posted this in the first place:

there are better Formats than .AVI, .AVI is ancient, and its not updated if at all.
 

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If you really read, understood, and knew what was in those articles, you wouldn't have posted this in the first place:

I think he's hinting to the fact that avi is outdated because it isn't compatible with many of the newer codecs. (Well, not without hacks, anyway)

Thus, if it's in an avi container, it's not using a high quality codec anyway.
 

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I don't actually have i7 as of yet. But anyway, I haven't encoded anything to avi in ages, so I wouldn't be able to tell you anyway.

I do most of my encoding to 2-pass H.264 video/Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in mkv containers. Depending on the content and filters used, it usually takes just a little bit more than half the length of the movie being ripped on my QX9650. The i7 is something like 20% faster at the same speed as a Yorkfield in encoding.

Ok, I will compare my p4 3.4HT desktop to my 2.ghz Core 2duo laptop.

To combine 14 .avi files at about 84mb each into 1 huge file, it would take my P4 3 hours.
Compared to 1.2 hours on the Core 2 duo.

Using windows movie maker.
 

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I'm absolutely satisfied with my i7 config. If I would have bought an AMD system instead, I would have saved money, but wouldn't have as good framerates in games, for many good reasons. AMD has yet to design a processor that can beat the i7 (gaming or not). That is why Intel will release the i5 platform, so AMD has competition. And sadly for AMD, things won't get any better for now as Intel will release the 950 and 975. I'm always for the best performing systems, that is why in 2004, I had a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D and an overclocked AMD processor, but things have changed since Intel released the C2D. PII is a good move for AMD but it doesn't win the performance crown, maybe a PIII. I think in the end it's a question of budget, my guess is that AMD has the best bang for the dollars spent, but definately needs better processor to beat the top Intel ones.
 
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I'm absolutely satisfied with my i7 config. If I would have bought an AMD system instead, I would have saved money, but wouldn't have as good framerates in games, for many good reasons. AMD has yet to design a processor that can beat the i7 (gaming or not). That is why Intel will release the i5 platform, so AMD has competition. And sadly for AMD, things won't get any better for now as Intel will release the 950 and 975. I'm always for the best performing systems, that is why in 2004, I had a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D and an overclocked AMD processor, but things have changed since Intel released the C2D. PII is a good move for AMD but it doesn't win the performance crown, maybe a PIII. I think in the end it's a question of budget, my guess is that AMD has the best bang for the dollars spent, but definately needs better processor to beat the top Intel ones.

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/pii955/12.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phenom-x4-955,2278-9.html

AMD Phenom is good for gaming as you can see it does compete well against i7 and mostly beats the Q9650. All in all there all about the same performance, which means AMD Phenoms are good enough and competive for gaming, everything else not so much against the i7 but gaming yes.
 

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Core i7 came about as a Media Encoding Processor, thats where it excells at.
 

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http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/pii955/12.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phenom-x4-955,2278-9.html

AMD Phenom is good for gaming as you can see it does compete well against i7 and mostly beats the Q9650. All in all there all about the same performance, which means AMD Phenoms are good enough and competive for gaming, everything else not so much against the i7 but gaming yes.

When you see benchmark scores where the Phenom II is on the heels of the i7, it's mostly because the test was run at high resolution with maximum game details. If you see benchmarks where the test is run at low resolution and low game detail, you will see the i7 far ahread of the Phenom II processor. In such case the test is limited by the graphics card's capacity to perform, where it bottlenecks.

http://www.techspot.com/review/162-amd-phenom2-x4-955/page10.html
 
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When you see benchmark scores where the Phenom II is on the heels of the i7, it's mostly because the test was run at high resolution with maximum game details. If you see benchmarks where the test is run at low resolution and low game detail, you will see the i7 far ahread of the Phenom II processor. In such case the test is limited by the graphics card's capacity to perform, where it bottlenecks.

http://www.techspot.com/review/162-amd-phenom2-x4-955/page10.html

Why would you buy top end hardware and then care about low end performance? Who cares what does better at low detail, high detail is most certainly more realistic of a bench. Regardless, I wish I could set up a pepsi challenge type deal, cause I'd wager a decent sum of money I could set up 3 rigs (i7, PII, core 2) that were identical in every way other than processor (and mb of course), set them to settings you would play at, and you wouldn't be able to tell me which is which. When it comes to subjective performance in games, cpu is largely irrelevant (provided we exclude 5 year old tech, or pre-core 2). You may get better frames, but if you didn't count them you wouldn't know.
 

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Why would you buy top end hardware and then care about low end performance? Who cares what does better at low detail, high detail is most certainly more realistic of a bench. Regardless, I wish I could set up a pepsi challenge type deal, cause I'd wager a decent sum of money I could set up 3 rigs (i7, PII, core 2) that were identical in every way other than processor (and mb of course), set them to settings you would play at, and you wouldn't be able to tell me which is which. When it comes to subjective performance in games, cpu is largely irrelevant (provided we exclude 5 year old tech, or pre-core 2). You may get better frames, but if you didn't count them you wouldn't know.

I'd say if you have a configuration where you have an SLI or a CROSSFIRE setup, where your system is less limited by the graphics hardware, there it would be justified to go with the i7, as your system is much less limited by the graphics performance. But I'd say the difference would be still negligible. But, passing through the benchmarks, generally speaking, I'd say AMD is doing a good job with their latest PII's for gaming performance.
 

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Core i7 dominates everything and games at low res. Phenom II only comes out on top at high resolutions.

This story has been repeated in other benchmarks. I still wouldn't take a Phenom II over a Core i7 because even at high resolutions, the Core i7 still posts good framerates. Why lose all that performance in other applications just for a marginal gain in high res games?

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