Re: what do I upgrade? (512MB to 1024MB ram makes no diffs)

In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Johan Wagener <pil(nospam)@webmail.co.za> wrote these words:

| I am making a lot of dvd movies from my camcorder. The encoding
| process (from DV avi to Mpeg) takes a very long time. I would like to
| know what in my PC I must upgrade so that this takes less time.
|
| I have a Pentuim 4 - 2GHz (running at 2.4GHz) with 1024MB DDR 333. My
| motherboard however only runs the memory at 266MHz. The increase from
| 512 to 1024MB ram did not seem to make any difference in the encoding
| speed.
|
| I also have a 7200RPM Maxtor 160GB HD and I don't have any video
| editing card.

What does "a very long time" mean Johan?   How are you getting the video
into your system?

I do not have a digital camcorder, but I feed my Hi8 in through my
video/capture card and capture as MPEG1 or MPEG2 in real time into Ulead
Video Studio.   It is not a terribly sophisticated system, but works for
me!

Further processing takes about another fifteen to twenty percent of
playing time.  (My system is 2.53 P:4 with 512 meg RAM.)

What sort of times are you talking about?

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