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Solve : FRAPS & VirtualDub - Can this convert any faster or am I bottlenecked?? |
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Answer» I have been using Fraps to capture video game footage and then use VirtualDub to make a 10GB project into a 200MB video for youtube. As officer of our World of Warcraft Guild, one of my responsibilities is to use my more powerful than most others systems computer to capture the events such as raids, and share mainly with the guild members through youtube as a convenient free video sharing service, so that those who want to look back at the gameplay for laughs, curiosity into others actions at certain parts of the battle etc, or see what they missed out on and view a weekly raid that they were not able to participate in, but can chat with others after the fact about it as a spectator to the run. The two hard drives keeps the bottleneck low (read from one, write to another). I'm sure you could get by with just one hard drive though. * was just thinking I have a 90GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD in this system that I use primarily for gaming, I could uninstall/reinstall one of my lesser played games to the regular 500GB hard drive and have about 40GB free and redirect FRAPS to populate the SSD instead of the spinning HDD. I think the SSD would take the read/write abuse far better than the spinning HDD. Just not sure if I want to write the finished product to the SSD or to the HDD, I am thinking that for speed it probably would make sense to write the finished product to the spinning HDD vs the SSD as for it might process faster not reading and writing to a single drive. But yet the SSD is much faster than the HDD, so it might actually be faster to have it all process on the SSD instead..LOL Regarding that software Xilisoft Video Converter and its ability to tap into the GPU cores to process vs just the CPU is very tempting. My video card is not super powerful, but CPU + GPU processing vs just the CPU taking the burden on the load should make some difference even if I am just using a AMD Radeon 5450HD with 1GB DDR3. Going to have to look up the Radeon 5450HD GPU now to see its stats for cores etc. Prior to this card I was using a GeForce 8400GS with 512MB RAM that claimed to have 16 cuda cores. This Radeon 5450HD performs way better and might assist the Athlon II x4 2.6Ghz that I using with Xilisoft.http://www.xilisoft.com/video-converter/video-converter-comparison.html Impressive software ... good deal going on until 4/20 $20 off + if I share this on FB I get an additional $10 off of the $20 for $30 off. Looks like I can get by just fine with the Standard Edition, however the extra features for editing are tempting as well even though I currently do not edit the videos, they are currently just posted exactly as recorded and converted. I think I am going to use these offers to get Ultimate at 50% off normal price for just $30 vs $60. My Radeon HD 5450 has 80 stream cores, not sure if thats going to make a big difference or not, but maybe will help the CPU out some if needed. The VirtualDub was only running the CPU around 30% so I am thinking that this process is nothing for the quadcore, although maybe if I used the SSD instead the CPU will come to life with more activity not waiting on read/write data latency to process its next conversion instruction. As well as maybe Xilisoft will make better use of the hardware to crunch this out faster, even though I SUSPECT the slowness is due to excessive drive activity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_5000_Series Carbon Dudeoxide Thanks for your help with this No problem! Glad to help. I bought the standard version. I didn't need the other features advertised in the more expensive versions. |
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