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EddieTH · 21st April 2004, 19:52

I'm trying out a modified version of this now. I have 3 PCs to encode with, but the CPU and RAM vary widely between the 3 (P4 2.4GHz/768MB DDR, Celeron 1.7GHz/128MB DDR, & Athlon 1GHz/256MB SDRAM). Since taking 1/3 for each PC would actually take longer because the fastest machine encodes at more than 5x the speed of the slowest, I did a test encode with one of the segments and compared the speeds on each of the PCs. Then I calculated what percentage of frames they should each encode to get done at roughly the same time. This would be the fastest I could possibly encode with this configuration. Finally, I determined how many segments to encode with each PC based on the frame count.

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EddieTH Unindicted Co-conspirator Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lost Somewhere In Time Posts: 62	I'm trying out a modified version of this now. I have 3 PCs to encode with, but the CPU and RAM vary widely between the 3 (P4 2.4GHz/768MB DDR, Celeron 1.7GHz/128MB DDR, & Athlon 1GHz/256MB SDRAM). Since taking 1/3 for each PC would actually take longer because the fastest machine encodes at more than 5x the speed of the slowest, I did a test encode with one of the segments and compared the speeds on each of the PCs. Then I calculated what percentage of frames they should each encode to get done at roughly the same time. This would be the fastest I could possibly encode with this configuration. Finally, I determined how many segments to encode with each PC based on the frame count.