[Ti] PB G4 667MHz DVI

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

On 15 Dec 2006, at 02:41, Rich Jones wrote:

> Converting from a 1 Hr EyeTV HD recording to DVD format using Toast  
> took about 18 Hrs with my old Power Mac 867 single processor. Using  
> my G5 2 GHz dual takes about an hour.
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Jon Riecken wrote:
>
>> I had a family video in .mp4 format. I used ffmpegx to convert to  
>> a dvd, and ... Wow... it took over 8 hours to convert it! I then  
>> used Toast 6 to encode/burn to a dvd. Has anyone else noticed any  
>> lag or long delay for this? Is my PB G4 667/1gig ram/80 gig 5400  
>> rpm/8x dvd burner, just too slow to handle this sort of stuff? I  
>> am running Tiger...

Only recently have I started to do this kind of encoding on my Al PB  
1.25, and I was initially surprised about the amount of time it takes.
Right now I am encoding a 700 MB AVI (with the dreaded 'ms' audio  
track) to H.264 (using the free iSquint) and it is showing 7h for the  
conversion....!
So your timing for conversion seems appropriate.

regards,  Trevor