Video Encoding Performance - DiVX/XMpeg 4.5

What was once reserved for "professional" use only has now become a task for many home PCs - media encoding. Today's media encoding requirements are more demanding than ever and are still some of the most intensive procedures you can run on your PC.

We'll start off with a "quick" conversion of a DVD rip (more specifically, Chapter 40 from the Star Wars Episode I DVD) to a DiVX MPEG-4 file. We used the latest DiVX codec (5.03) in conjunction with Xmpeg 4.5 to perform the encoding at 720 x 480.

We set the encoding speed to Fastest, disabled audio processing and left all of the remaining settings on their defaults. We recorded the last frame rate given during the encoding process as the progress bar hit 100%

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  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link

    Atari 2600 Rules!
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, September 7, 2003 - link

    i love how you see amd chips compared directly to intel ones which cost 8 times as much - and then they say that the intel 'kicked arse' - also optimised code compared to unoptimised (ala sandra)

    i think ill write a review 'dual AMD 3200+ = intel killer - kicks the p3-1000 arse' just wait till you see how extended 3dnow+ is going whomp intels mmx1 hehehe
  • Jeff7181 - Saturday, August 30, 2003 - link

    #11... the review on the 3.0C used PC800 RDRAM's and this one uses DDR400. That's one difference... they may have also used slightly different options for testing since they seem to customize the benchmark.
  • Anonymous User - Saturday, August 23, 2003 - link

    Read Tomsharware review and xbitlabs and youll see how the p4 flies above those athlons
  • Anonymous User - Saturday, August 23, 2003 - link

    I think INTEL and their last line of Pentium 4 really kick AMD athlon ass ... and very hard ...
  • Anonymous User - Friday, August 8, 2003 - link

    Hello,
    I was wondering if any of you guys knows how to overclock the P4 2.8GHz on a I875PBZ MOBO
    Why the bios under the same board are so limited?
    Can the Intel MOBO 875PBZ upgrade my CPU?
  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 5, 2003 - link

    Why is there such a large difference in the UT2003 benchmark results between this review and that of the P4 3.0C? Hmm...
  • Anonymous User - Saturday, August 2, 2003 - link

    Pictures does not work on XP using IE either.
  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - link

    Another web site did testing on the same two chips and the p4 came out on top.If you want to see it go to tomshardware and read for yourselves.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, July 20, 2003 - link

    What really buggers me off is that I can't see any of the attached images in this article as I am using Opera 7.11 on a linux box. Please make your site all OS- and browser-compatible. (At least to some extent anyway). Not everyone uses IE and Windows.

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