DIVX5 reproductability problems

[danwatt]

I was in a rush to get some TV-rips encoded over night, so I set up the various outputs (600, 650, 700k - sometimes DIVX5 doesnt hit the right bitrate if the episode contains mostly darker colors, so I output it in hopes of hitting an approximate filesize). I didnt think the 700k (VBR) pass would finish, so I copied that portion of the virtualdub.jobs file (the 2 700k jobs) to another computer. My video cap drive is shared, and I set up the connection correctly, and hit start on both computers. The encoding went fine, and I decided to let my primary computer do the 700k anyway.

It turns ou that both computers finished the 700k version. The odd thing : my desktop (800mhz celeron) produced a 180MB file, while the other machine (900mhz Duron) produced a 170MB file. IDENTICAL settings and filters were used, as well as the exact same decoding codec (Pegasus MJPEG), and both computers used DIVX5.0. Does DIVX5 "perform better" on an AMD machine over an Intel machine, or is something completely wrong here? Any insights?

[FDISK]

Perhaps one was using Fast recompress and the other not?

[danwatt]

Well, as I said, the settings (which are stored in the VirtualDubs.jobs) (as well as the cut points and filters) were copied verbatim, so unless DIVX5 stores the Fast/Slow settings in the registry and NOWHERE else....

[dragoman]

Hi,

I think I remember reading something about how DivX 5 uses AMD stuff better than Intel....which sucks for me cause I just bought a 1.6 Ghz P4 comp :(

But I guess I'll get over it.....;)

dragoman