virtual PC (DVD2SVCD)??

[mart0593]

I'm just wondering if anyone has had experience trying to use DVD2SVCD with virtual PC. Please let me know if you have. thanks

[pacohaas]

There's no reason why it shouldn't work, as long as all the programs used work under Virtual PC. The only problem I see is the ripping possibly not working, but you can take care of that with DVD Extractor and the just disable ripping in D2S. Why don't you let us know how it goes.

...your encoding speeds should be horrible though, but I assume you already know this.

[mart0593]

well the ripping part was not the problem. the program was running smooth until it came to encoding. CCE would start up but would always quite on me saying the program has preformed and illegal action. I've tried it with TMPG and i get the same warning. Any suggestion thanks ...by the way this only works with virtual pc 5

[itimpi]

CCE requires at least a P3 or Athlon processor. The question therefore is whether Virtual PC emulates one of this class of processors, or an earlier processor. I would suspect it is an earlier procsssor that is emulated - in which case CCE will definitely fail.

[pacohaas]

it has MMX instruction support, but I believe that's all it has.

[phuntyme]

This was when they first released the product on a Mac... ummm pacohaas you are not on a mac r u? hehe

[dvd2svcd]

Maybe wmvare works better than virtualpc, but I haven't tried it.

[chainsaw135]

A good thing i think should be noted, is Tmpgenc does not need a pentium 3 to run, so if you are getting the same error with both cce and tempgenc then either the program even has less of an emulating power then it is says.. or you really are having a problem somewhere else.

[pacohaas]

Originally posted by phuntyme
... ummm pacohaas you are not on a mac r u? hehe I stick out of the whole PC vs Mac business. I have 1 of each(G4 500, Duron 600@980, and they both serve their purposes.

[itimpi]

Originally posted by dvd2svcd
Maybe wmvare works better than virtualpc, but I haven't tried it.

The VMWare product only runs on Intel (or compatible) processors. It does not emulate the processor itself. The prime use here is to allow you to run an Intel based OS that is not the same as the one normally run on the machine in question.

The Virtual PC software on the other hand exists in both MAC (where it emulates the processor) and PC (where it acts more like VMWare as far as processor emulation is concerned) variants. I was assuming that the question related to the MAC variant as if you have a PC why take the performance hit of running under an emulator.

Having said that, I have the PC versions of both VMWare and Virtual PC (we use them at work to help with testing different software environments) so I will see if they both support the DVD2SVCD conversion and report back. I know that DVD2SVCD runs fine on the machines in question when not running under emulation so any differences will be due to the emulator.