Toqers got a brand new bag!

[toqer]

I just upgraded my broadcast machine to a dual core athlon 64 4200. It's very nice now..

Anyone have any tips on using camtasia? Mainly i'm lookin for speedup tips.

--toq

[rockouthippie]

I hate to mention it, because I have an Athlon X2, but AMD is now a suboptimal choice compared to the Intel core duos :(

Actually, I'm wondering if the 3.4 Ghz Pentium Ds wouldn't be preferable to an Athlon for encoding purposes.

I'm not really bitching, the 3800 X2 I have is plenty fast. I just wasn't used to seeing Intel chips have the advantage they picked up in the last few months.

[slavas]

lower-end X2 still have good price/performance ratio

[CharredPC]

Just built a new box myself and will be trying Camtasia out on it... will post the results. It's an AMD X2 5200+ @ 2.81GHz, with 2GB of DDR2 800 ram. I expect it to run a heck of a lot better than my aging Athlon64 3000+ @ 2.3GHz with 1GB of DDR 400 :)

[toqer]

I'm starting to realize camtasia kinda blows. Anyone ever try RGB component capture of the desktop, like let's say this (http://www.adstech.com/products/API-557-EFS/intro/api557_intro.asp?pid=API-557-EFS) card? Is there that much signal degregation?

[rockouthippie]

Originally posted by CharredPC
Just built a new box myself and will be trying Camtasia out on it... will post the results. It's an AMD X2 5200+ @ 2.81GHz, with 2GB of DDR2 800 ram. I expect it to run a heck of a lot better than my aging Athlon64 3000+ @ 2.3GHz with 1GB of DDR 400 :)

I never could get my 3000+ past 2000 Mhz and it's glitchy at that. I think about anything that gets past 2500 Mhz is gonna be the ticket.

I'm using a 3000+ for a PVR with Beyond TV. It's underpowered when handling HDTV.

For our exact purpose, I'm thinking that the fastest clock is gonna be the winner. That's why I'm thinking Pentium Ds might make the best encoding machine.

My best machine is currently an X2 3800. I can push it to 2.2 Ghz, so that helps, but I'm wondering if a 3.4 Ghz Pentium D wouldn't be better, since we are only using 32 bit software.

Using mencoder under FC6-64 will allow me to make Divx videos real quick with the X2 processor (since the newest hack will allow dual core use), but running 32 bit windows it's a slug.

I don't have any data about this, but I'm wondering if these high speed 32bit chips might be better, because 64 bit is absolutely useless and dual core under windows is hardly taking advantage of processor potential.

[toqer]

I really want this card dammit (http://www.adstech.com/products/API-557-EFS/intro/api557_intro.asp?pid=API-557-EFS). Someone buy it for me now...

Guys, it's component capture... Think about that for a second.. True RGB capture.

I talked to the tech support guy today. He said it will capture at 480p (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/480p) Taken from the previous link..

480p is the shorthand name for a video display resolution. The p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced, while the 480 denotes a vertical resolution of 480 vertical scanning lines, usually with a horizontal resolution of 704 or 720 pixels and 4:3 aspect ratio on standard-definition television (SDTV), or a horizontal resolution of 854 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio on high-definition television (HDTV). The frame rate is usually 30 or 60 hertz and can be given explicitly after the letter.

So anywhere from 640x480 pixels to 854x480 RGB pixel capture. You can turn VMR9 and all video accelleration back on, turn camtasia off, and use those extra CPU cycles for other things like compression.

PS Oh and I found out my 7900GT PCI-E video card can output component :)

[ravetrax]

Originally posted by toqer
I'm starting to realize camtasia kinda blows.

i am going to have to disagree with you... ;p

[toqer]

http://stashbox.org/12809/10712324649-Winamp-Video.png

UNF!!! Props to you for being first with camtasia.

Rava, we'll see. I'm already taking up collections for that ADS pyro box. My gut, gut feeling is that this is going to be one of those "Next step" things. If I get one, and it proves awesome, i'm sure you and all the other NSV'ers are going to follow.

Oh yah, some dickhead in your chatroom banned me for saying.

http://205.188.215.229:8014/listen.pls

You need less nazi's on your op squad bro, we'd never do that on my side of the net :( Anyways, again bro, thanks for being the first innovator so guys like me can copy. Hopefully it's my turn to innovate :)

--toq

[ravetrax]

lol, i just checked, looks like jfm did it. i removed the bann, and yeah in his defense, we've had alot of spammers recently...

i was curious where you went... =/