Help. I can't use some scripts on older pc

[junglemike]

Hi, My primary pc is PIII-750mhz 512mb sdram. It suits me well (i don't play games, etc) but it's bit slow when it comes to dvd-backup encoding ( i encode to Xvid). I found some old pc in the garbage ,and set it up as a second pc to help encoding video. This is Celero 300mhz, 192mb ram windows2000, 2x(8gb Scsi drives).
I copied all my Virtualdub settings, and plugings. When i try to run there my usual scripts, i get these errors:
http://img14.imgspot.com/u/05/180/08/error1.gif
and

http://img14.imgspot.com/u/05/180/08/error2.gif

Does it mean this pc is too old? It's fine otherwise, it's even plays Xvid movies (almost) smooth.
Let's say i find another script that work with it, how much time would it take to Celeron 300mhz to encode usual Dvd movie. I just want to know if it work the effort or not.

[Inventive Software]

A PC with a Celeron 300 is very old, and some of the newer functions in the AviSynth scripts you are trying to process are only capable with Pentium III or newer, because they are the 1st generation processors to support SSE.

In short, it's not worth it. It takes a while to encode it on your PC anyway, throwing a Celeron 300 at it is not going to make it any faster. The only thing that could make it faster is getting a faster PC.

I have a similar computer to the one you do the encoding on anyway, and I know it takes a while. You just have to sit it out, maybe get a good book and let it do its work. Sorry!

[junglemike]

Well I see. I'm already working on overclocking this old Celeron 300mhz. I'm one step away from making it 450mhz (100mhz fsb instead of 66). It already starts, but crashes loading windows. I will try to feed it with 2.2v Vcore instead of 2.0v.
I know that it will never run faster than my PIII-750. but I want to have another pc for encodings. my 750 currently takes about 1-1.5 days to compress one move (considering daily work I do on it besides encoding). So i hope i can make this Cel300 to compress one movie in 2 days. If it's more than 3-4 days - I'll dump it.
I still have to find replacements for scripts that doesn't work w/o sse.

[ultimatebilly]

I still have to find replacements for scripts that doesn't work w/o sse.
Why don't you consider trying linux?
There are solutions that work very well for transcoding to XviD, and they will not depend on SSE, but will furthermore get the most out of your machine because if you compile the programs from source they will be tailored to your computer.
If you run the system without any graphical user interface and control it remotely from another PC, you might get an additional performance boost.
Most of the tools for linux either use MEncoder or Transcode, and the speed of MEncoder in particular is really impressive!
If you want to give it a try, it would recommend to browse the Linux-section of this board and start asking specific questions there (in case the search doesn't turn up something useful).