I'm in the process of building a new box that's for gaming, graphic editing, D/V editing & Ripping DVD's into VCD's. Like everyone out there, I want the best that money can buy, latest & greatest, not have to really upgrade for a while, & not spend an arm & a leg for it. So, I've been doing a lot of reading (www.) the newer processors out there, it seams that the new AMD 2000XP w/ DDR is the best for the money. But I have one stupid question though. Are they good @ & or capable of "Ripping DVD's into VCD's"? Also would a dual processor setup help w/ the video compressing or is it not really cost efficient?
Thanks in advance for any input.
:cool:Ski:cool:

I don't know about the new AMD, but I have a 1.4 ghz AMD and it rips DVDs very nicely. The only reason I can think of why it wouldn't is mmx technology, but AMD usually supports/emulates, or otherwise uses it anyway (from what my computer has told me about itself anyway). I hope that helps any.

i am ripping dvds to vcds on my p450 with [b:52f4ea560e]Movie Jack 1.1[/b:52f4ea560e]

no problems so far, easy to use

you can download a demoversion ( 10 min videos ) at

http://esd.element5.com/product.html...encies=EUR,USD

have a nice day
kernel

hxxp://www.actonlinestore.com
i just got a new XP1600, 256DDR, mobo/case for 350

So they're good and cheap. :)

hxxp://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q4/011031/index.html
has a review of the XPs versus P4

And it seems the XP1800 is the leader of the pack...w/ the 1500 as most bang for the buck.

so an XP2000 would prolly be over kill.

The best deal to rip dvd is an AMD cpu because they are cheaper and the better software to do it, flaskmpg, is best optimized to AMD. However, I don't know if xp2000 is the best deal since it is pretty new and it's price is still high, you don't need so much power to rip dvds, although the convertion to mpg1/2 requires a lot of cpu power. If you plan to capture DV, get some info about the sb1394 port in Audigy soun card because it is cheap and as that funcionallity that costs a lot in a standalone card. Dual cpu systems are also good if you plan to keep working with your machine while it is under heavy load, although it is a costly option and you can just change the task priority to "low" if want to be able to use the machine under that condition.

I have been running a dual PIII 1.1GHz setup for a while now. It was state-of-the-art when I got it, but now its beginning to age with 2.2GHz out there.

The motherboard with two CPUs cost me £350. Around $500, which isnt bad. RAM was really cheap at the time so I got 1.5GB, of which I use 200MB as a large ramdrive for fast temp storage when I need it. Even compared to todays latest and greatest 2.2GHz proccessors, the system appears to run very smoothly.

I also rip a lot of DVDs mainly to DivX, recently I got a DVD-R drive too. A dual proccessor setup, although it doesnt always translate to a 2x increase in performance can help. Multitasking is much smoother. If you are running one CPU-intensive program, it doesnt help that much unless the program is designed to make full use of SMP/dual proccessors. Most video encoding utils like FlaskMPEG can do this w/o problems....

Thanks for all your impute. I do believe that I be purchasing an AMD A-XP 2000 w/ the new I-wil M/B. Please keep you coments coming.
Thanks again,
Ski

I have only just begun experimenting, Definately get the fastest machine you can. I have been testing DVDx , It seems capable of ripping and splitting to VCD or SVCD compatible files on the fly.
However it is taking about 4hrs + on a Duron 1000 mhz machine.
You can follow the links from hxxp://labdv.com , have fun.

Wow, I've been ripping DVDs using Flask MPEG, it works wonders, I can rip 30 min in 4 hours, not very bad since I do a lot of anime ripping.

DekarGuy

PS. I am using a Celeron 633 from HP (lol, my parents bought me this POS) but it has 320 MB RAM, so it works OK