I'll inline my answers...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/30 Michael Holland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.holland@gmail.com">michael.holland@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
IIRC the "3200+" means they claim it performs like a 3200MHz P4, so beats a 2600.<br>Mencoder does 60fps ripping a DVD on a P4-3200. 1 or 2 threads makes no difference with HT. </blockquote><div>hmmm what i've been reading on wikipedia doesn't seem to think so...</div>
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By why recode? Unless you have a monster DVD collection, you should just rip it as the original mpeg2, and lose no quality.<br></blockquote><div>Quality loss is minimal to us</div><div>Original mpeg2 files would be huge wouldn't they? </div>
<div>I only have about 1TB of storage for this purpose (mirrored 2 TB)</div><div> </div></div>