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TactX
26th October 2002, 17:55
I've just asked myself how fast encoding would be using VMware (v3.2, running on Debian 3.0 with guest-OS Win2k). So I tried.

The VOB has been ripped under Debian, stored in my home-directory and the Virtual Machine (Win2k) had access via "host-only networking".

For encoding I used DVD2AVI (1.86) writing directly to my home-directory.
Codec was XviD (from 22.05.02).

The setup is actually not very interesting, because I did the same test (same versions and settings) with my "native" Win2k to have good values to compare the performance.

I was quite impressed how fast VMware works:

- "native" Win2k: ~20-21 fps
- Virtual Win2k: ~13 fps


Nice isn't it ;)
redcane
26th October 2002, 22:48
This was jut for interests sake right? Since you can use transcode to rip from DVD->divx/xvid on the fly in linux (i.e. don't need to rip the DVD first :-)
TactX
26th October 2002, 22:57
Originally posted by redcane
This was jut for interests sake right?

Of course :)
auenf
28th October 2002, 10:43
when setup correctly, VMWare can be rather fast, pity the virtual disk implementation is rather slow, altho physical disk access is an option if you're game ;)

Enf...
TactX
28th October 2002, 18:46
Originally posted by auenf
...altho physical disk access is an option if you're game ;)

Enf...

I'm in a playful mood today :D

I just set up a new Virtual-Machine with physical disk access, just to see wether the difference is noticable or not.
But lacking my Win2k-CD I only had the option to install NT4 as a small test (which was O.K. btw).
I'll get my Win2k-CD in 1 or 2 days and then we'll see....
tanksimpson
29th October 2002, 02:04
I've done exactly what you're talking about with Redhat 7.2 as "host" and Win2K as "guest" except that I gave the virtual Win2K its own physical disk partition. I noticed Virtual-VirtualDub(!) losing only about 3-4 frames per second (i.e a 10% hit on my Athlon XP 2000+) versus Real-VirtualDub - not bad at all. My main problem was that I couldn't use any of the ripping programs (like SmartRipper) from inside the VM. The native linux rippers I have tried aren't really flexible enough for my taste. Based on some things I've seen on the VMWare mailing lists though, some progress reading DVDs from the guest OS has been made - maybe I will try again soon.