hardware question about reincoding

[bobstone]

hello all, short story is that I had foot surgery so that will explain some of the stupid seeming questions here

ok

1st does reincoding thru a remote desktop connection ( to be refered to as RDC from here on ) slow down the reincode becuse on my x2 3800 with 2 gig ram will reincode a 22 min xvid to wmv at 11-25 fps. that seems slow seeing as my laptop which is a c2d 2.4 gig does it at 115 fps ( I would check my self but I am severly broken as stated at the begining )

2nd if the top seems to be a wierd effect of reincoding thru RDC instead of sitting at the desk which computer should be good at reincoding ( I dont car about 10-20 fps diffrence )

amd x2 3800 2 gig ram, pentuim d 2.8 1 gig ram, c2d 2.4 gig laptop 2 gig ram

I figured they would all work at like speeds but just want to check here.

3rd what is a good light whight program that is fast and easy but still provides good results to use to reincode


what I am doing to give more background is my desktop serves as a media server for my xbox360, but it is way to painfull for me to be walking around the house right now so I am RDC'ing in to my desktop to setup the reincode and other stuff. but... it seems like my laptop is way faster to reincode on but I dont want to abuse it to much ( it gets really hot ) so I have one other desktop I can posably use but I would want to configure wake on lan for it ( the pentuim d 2.8 ) cause I dont want to have 3 dang computers constantly running here. any ways... thanks for any awnsers on this

Thanks
Bob

[foxyshadis]

A 2.4ghz core 2 laptop will be about as fast as a 6000+ desktop, but the 3800+ should still be about 3/5 of the speed, so you might check to be sure that it has WMP11 for the latest and greatest codec, and no bottlenecks like the network. The pentium D would be about 1/2 the laptop's speed.

RDC doesn't impact encoding, I've used it often in the past. If it's trying to show the movie as it encodes, that'll slow it way down, though; turn any previews off.

As for simple software, hm, I don't really know of any free. There's WMV Powertoy + wmcmd.vbs (http://www.citizeninsomniac.com/WMV/), or the standard vfw you've probably been using. 360 does support h.264, though, and there are plenty of GUIs for that (as long as they have a profile supporting the 360's capabilities).