Encoding time Windows [9?|2000|XP] vs linux ?

[prom3theus]

I'm curious if it would be worth it to go to linux. I have several intall cds and have used it before and am a bit acquanted with package installations and so forth.

Right now I have
athlon xp 1700
abit kd7-raid
256M pc2100
2 ata100 drives on raid-0
Win98se

I get about 25fps on a 4:3 ntsc video to divx5.02, 1-pass clipped/resized to 352x264 size, with gmc, qpel, bidirectional, slowest speed, straight from dvd2avi w/o audio processing. Is this going to get really much better in linux? Even a gain of 4 or 5 fps would be pretty good, to get me over real time. And then I might be able to encode on the fly with divx5 ?


Thanks

[TactX]

And then I might be able to encode on the fly with divx5 ?
Yes, if your tools are configured to use DivX 5.

Is this going to get really much better in linux?
That mainly depends on the encoding tool you're using. transcode is not too fast, but _should_ match your speed with dvd2avi.

MEncoder (which is the one I use) is definetely faster than anything on Linux and Windows.

As an example:
- 4:3 PAL interlaced, cropped to 720x408, bicubic resize to 640x336
- with subtitle
- no audio
- XviD (0.90) with 4mv, me_quality=6 (highest), 1st pass

With this setup I get ~24 fps average on my Athlon 800.
I don't know what it would be like with DivX 5.

[elcabesa]

my configuration is
athlon 900
380mb ram

using divx 5.01 with most option enabled and doing a bicubic_resize to 640*256 using mplayer/mencoder i get a 24-25 fps

but divx 5.01 seeems to be on my pc sometimes buggy with gmc and other advanced options, and divx 5.01 is the last release for linux
no divx 5.03 =(

but xvid work pretty well=)

byee

i think an athlon 1700 should go faster than 25fps=)
30 fps
40 fps?