About Toms Hardware review on DivX 5

[uManiac]

Hi,
I needed a good laugh this morning so I stared to read Toms Hardware guide review of DivX 5 (maybe I should have put this in that forum). I found somthing very interesting. In the part where they talk about the impact of settings on filesize (http://www.tomshardware.com/video/02q1/020315/DivX50-11.html), they test each setting with both a P4 and an Athlon/XP. For some reason the P4 produces smaller files than the Athlon :confused: Seems very odd to me. Since I only have an Athlon I can't test this, but is this also the case for XviD?

uManiac

[PwR900]

THG's articles about divx has always been somewhat... confusing... I'll clap my hands when they get it right :)

[khp]

Sounds like Tom got his settings messed up, I have tested divx5 on a duron750 and a celeron900 and I have been abel to produce identical results, using identical avs scritps.

[Uli]

Ohh, come on, forget 'funny tom' :p
He is really more confusing than informational on things he doesn't have a clue of...

More like 'Computer Bild' ( Sorry for that, it's a german joke )

greetz, Uli

[philippas]

I would say that every article that THG has written for divx is crap :D . I don't how they produce those results.
AMD and Intel processors produce different results with exactly the same settings :eek: What next from THG

[Hanty]

Tom is a sort of like a Late show host. He can pull a few laughs about things common people don't understand and come off like he has it all figured out. Basically, he's a layman and I'd trust the research of many people here more than his "scientific" tests.

[avih]

usually, thg has excellent comparisions regarding hardware.

even the divx stuff, it's more than ok for imtermediate users. not all the ppl are that knoledgable about video compression as the guys on this forum :)

give him a break ;)

[yokem55]

Actually, it was Tom's early divx guides with 3.11 and the early version of flask that got me interested in this stuff in the first place...granted I've learn 1000 times more since then, but that was my first real exposure to what divx was all about....

[MxxCon]

Originally posted by uManiac
Hi,
I needed a good laugh this morning so I stared to read Toms Hardware guide review of DivX 5 (maybe I should have put this in that forum). I found somthing very interesting. In the part where they talk about the impact of settings on filesize (http://www.tomshardware.com/video/02q1/020315/DivX50-11.html), they test each setting with both a P4 and an Athlon/XP. For some reason the P4 produces smaller files than the Athlon :confused: Seems very odd to me. Since I only have an Athlon I can't test this, but is this also the case for XviD?actualy that can be perfectly valid result.
divx5 has optimizations for p4 and athlon. so each cpu uses differnt core. now remember differnt LAME compiles on http://www.hydrogenaudio.org ? faster compile settings resulted in slightly larger mp3 files. very same thing could be happening with divx5..and possibly with xvid. it's not nessarly that p4 will make smaller files than athlon, they'll just be slitly different..

[Ookami]

He has excellent knowledge about hardware, but that doesn't mean he has to write about every hype, or does it?

Ok for intermediate users? Yeah, right! I got dozens of mails from users who "learned" from his "guides" with a cry for help. And I don't want to know how many Doom9 got...

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Nope. If someone who's a pro in videoencoding (and even messes up with hardware basics) starts to write hardware "guides" and "articles" he would be certainly laughed on.

They could ask one of the "oldies" in the scene (Oleg, Wimpy, Q-bert, Doom9 etc.) to write him a short Divx ;-) article back then. But no, they had to write it by themselves :rolleyes: .

Whatever. They will surely not stop to write bad articles with many errors and simply stupid claims (I didn't read any of those latest guides, because when I want to laugh I'm gonna watch "Married with children").

Sorry for my rant, but I just hate those "experts" with their articles (same about those computer magazine "Divix" experts...).

@Hanty

That's a good one :D .

Cheers,

Mijo.

Originally posted by avih
usually, thg has excellent comparisions regarding hardware.

even the divx stuff, it's more than ok for imtermediate users. not all the ppl are that knoledgable about video compression as the guys on this forum :)

give him a break ;)

[cabal]

doom9 is my only reference and every board i visit i refer to his great site :)