Can't use my scripts on diff computer.

[junglemike]

Hi.
I set up some old computer to assist me in encoding, and It doesn't want to accept my usual scripts.
These are the errors I get:
http://img15.imgspot.com/u/06/285/05/err11160731927.gif
http://img15.imgspot.com/u/06/285/05/err21160731962.gif

[foxyshadis]

The old computer is too old, and there's no way to salvage it short of upgrading its CPU. Sorry. (If it's a P-MMX or PII, or some k6 or cyrix/via thing, it wouldn't be much help anyway.) The filters you're trying to use require at least a P3 or Athlon.

[actionman133]

Sounds like your old computer isn't a P3 or a P4 if it can't use SSEMMX.

This might be recoverable, if you're forcing CPU optimizations on certain filters (like DGDecode). Just turn the options off, but some filters require certain instruction sets...

[junglemike]

I've been trying to avoid upgrading my computers for quite some time already.
It Is Celeron 266mhz, (with no l2 cashe at all). I overclocked it to 400mhz by forcing fsb to 100mhz instead of 66mhz. So I thought It would be enough.
undot() is not big deal, But I would really like to use convolution3d() somehow.
I've disabled all those functions for the test, and started to encode with Megui in x264 HQ-Slow profile. Final resolution is 464x256 (for palm pda). It says it will take 2:15:25:36 for the fist pass. Is that 2 days???

[foxyshadis]

Sure is. You might want to look into encoding it on the palm, there's a chance it might be faster... ;)

[junglemike]

Yes, it might :-). My palm is 400mhz and I can o'c it to 533mhz - which is faster than this celeron.
I'm disappointed in this computer, I thought with these tiny resolution it would be really fast. Because otherwise this computer works surprisingly well, just as fast as my main computer (which is celeron 1700mhz).

[junglemike]

Listen, I just thought, maybe it's because this celeron has no l2 cashe? Because I have another celeron 333mhz with 128kb L2 cashe, but I won't overclock too much (only 375mhz).
I also have PII - 233 mhz (no celeron) with 512kb of cash, but it won't overclock at all.
Do you think there's any sense to try these?

[G_M_C]

Listen, I just thought, maybe it's because this celeron has no l2 cashe? Because I have another celeron 333mhz with 128kb L2 cashe, but I won't overclock too much (only 375mhz).
I also have PII - 233 mhz (no celeron) with 512kb of cash, but it won't overclock at all.
Do you think there's any sense to try these?

I dont think these CPU's and/or OC'ing will be a real solution. I'm sorry to say that the only satisfactory solution will be upgrading to a CPU that does SSE (1/2/3) and MMX and is faster. Those aren't that expensive anymore, especially when you buy a set second hand.

A P4 3.0 Northwood would do the trick a bit better, and i've seen second hand systems with that CPU and mem etc for a few hundered euro / bucks (200~300 euro, complete meaning "plug-in-and-use"). I wont be surprised if you could even find a cheaper offer.

PS: You've made a type-o (leave it there, its actually a good joke :) )

A PII with 512 of cash would be very nice indeed :D

[foxyshadis]

You could always try ELDER, if you have them all networked. Use your main 1700Celeron to do most of the avisynth filtering, and have the others use it through TCPDeliver. You probably won't have much load on the main one even with 4 nodes, they're so old. At least it could give you a more respectable 3 or 4 fps total.

[junglemike]

foxyshadis, this is very interesting what you said. I searched this "elder" and it seems to be some sort of parallel encoding, Am I right?
Because I have many other computers on my network,and it would be great if they could work together. I will investigate this issue. Hope it's not too complicated:
Currently I have
Celeron 1700mhz/512mb ram
PIII-1000mhz/256mb ram
PIII-500mhz/128mb ram
And this Celeron 400mhz, which can't accept my scripts.