[plug] Hardware question

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I'll inline my answers...

2009/12/30 Michael Holland <michael.holland at gmail.com>

> IIRC the "3200+" means they claim it performs like a 3200MHz P4, so beats a
> 2600.
> Mencoder does 60fps ripping a DVD on a P4-3200. 1 or 2 threads makes no
> difference with HT.

hmmm what i've been reading on wikipedia doesn't seem to think so...


>

By why recode? Unless you have a monster DVD collection, you should just rip
> it as the original mpeg2, and lose no quality.
>
Quality loss is minimal to us
Original mpeg2 files would be huge wouldn't they?
I only have about 1TB of storage for this purpose (mirrored 2 TB)
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