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Alyssa
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Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:
Does WME work with 64 bit OS and CPU ?? |
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And if so does it work with dual Core AMD cpus ?
ANd would that speed the encoding up if ir supports it of course :)
For some reason it just started to work for me. Never ecoded the same
ratio before now it works ?
To to encode a full movie would take ages with my barton 2500. So my
new pc will be a AMD 3800 X2 and 2 gigs of ram and two 160 gig drives
using Raid 0. Oh also they will be SATA 2-300 drives with NCQ :)
OH the videocard will be a 7800 GT or ATI equivilent.
Thanks for any info.
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Chris P. [MVP]
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Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Does WME work with 64 bit OS and CPU ?? |
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:48:31 +1100, Alyssa wrote:
Yes, you need the 64-bit version released last month.
| Quote: | And if so does it work with dual Core AMD cpus ?
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Yes. But don't expect the speed to double.
| Quote: | ANd would that speed the encoding up if ir supports it of course :)
For some reason it just started to work for me. Never ecoded the same
ratio before now it works ?
To to encode a full movie would take ages with my barton 2500. So my
new pc will be a AMD 3800 X2 and 2 gigs of ram and two 160 gig drives
using Raid 0. Oh also they will be SATA 2-300 drives with NCQ :)
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SATA-2 doesn't make any difference at all at this point in time. Hard
drives aren't yet fast enough to bottle neck SATA-1. HD performance
certainly isn't a bottle neck for traditional encoding anyway. For
high-speed encodes (non WME) like uncompressed to DV, your often best off
having 2 seperate non-RAID drives with source and destination on separate
drives. This eliminates the repeated seeking. The RAID-0 strip can help
if you do a lot of RAW editing.
| Quote: | OH the videocard will be a 7800 GT or ATI equivilent.
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Also doesn't make any difference - yet. I would expect to see some GPU
enhanced encoding in the years to come. |
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Alyssa
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Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:30 am Post subject:
Re: Does WME work with 64 bit OS and CPU ?? |
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Ive got XP Pro so Dual core will work. WOO HOOOO :0
On 30 Dec 2005 21:47:14 -0800, "spam-jobrien-less"
<jobrien@acscience.com> wrote:
| Quote: | WME works with a 64bit OS but you will only see an improvement if you
install the 64bit version of WME, otherwise you would get 32bit
performance, roughly.
the 64bit version is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
a comparison of the 2 is located here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/versions.aspx
Running on dual core CPUs will enhance any multi-threaded application,
but will require a winXP Pro or win2k. Of course if you are using a
64bit OS then thats would be WinXP Pro 64. THe Pro version supports
dual execution cores while WinXP home does not.
Since I capture from my ATI card, directly, I see the advatage of a
great graphics card, if you are encoding existing media from file or
device then I don't think that would matter much.
Also, I recently bought an Intel Pentium D 2.8Mhz Dual Core cpu and a
great Asus motherboard to run it on. It doesn't quite pace my Dual Xeon
but it does a nifty job with anything DirectX/DirectShow/etc since
those are all multi-threaded API's. I'm encoding from file at .5x
real-time.
Raid 0 is slow, Raid 5 is fast. I've been told the newest replacement
for Raid 5 is Raid 3, which is faster, better, and fixes some striping
issues with Raid 5. To overcome a hard drive bottleneck on your
encoding use Raid 5 or 3 if you have it.
regards,
John |
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spam-jobrien-less
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Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:30 am Post subject:
Re: Does WME work with 64 bit OS and CPU ?? |
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WME works with a 64bit OS but you will only see an improvement if you
install the 64bit version of WME, otherwise you would get 32bit
performance, roughly.
the 64bit version is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
a comparison of the 2 is located here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/versions.aspx
Running on dual core CPUs will enhance any multi-threaded application,
but will require a winXP Pro or win2k. Of course if you are using a
64bit OS then thats would be WinXP Pro 64. THe Pro version supports
dual execution cores while WinXP home does not.
Since I capture from my ATI card, directly, I see the advatage of a
great graphics card, if you are encoding existing media from file or
device then I don't think that would matter much.
Also, I recently bought an Intel Pentium D 2.8Mhz Dual Core cpu and a
great Asus motherboard to run it on. It doesn't quite pace my Dual Xeon
but it does a nifty job with anything DirectX/DirectShow/etc since
those are all multi-threaded API's. I'm encoding from file at .5x
real-time.
Raid 0 is slow, Raid 5 is fast. I've been told the newest replacement
for Raid 5 is Raid 3, which is faster, better, and fixes some striping
issues with Raid 5. To overcome a hard drive bottleneck on your
encoding use Raid 5 or 3 if you have it.
regards,
John |
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