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to: Geo.
from: vwheeler
date: 2002-12-14 15:57:38
subject: Re: Windows vs. Linux

From: vwheeler 

I did not see any mention of the release for season 3 can SG-1 season 3 be
pre-ordered somewhere? I do not find any mention of it at Amazon.com.
Strange that they are waiting until after christmas.

What encoder are you using that supports distributed processing of the DVD's?

Geo. wrote:
> season 3 comes out dec 28th or something like that.
>
> Geo.
>
> "vwheeler"  wrote in message
> news:3dfb4747{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Where did you find Stargate season 3?
>>
>>
>>Geo. wrote:
>>
>>>"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>>>news:3dfa198d{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>How often do you do that? It takes a video 1.5 hours to video a 1.5
>>>
> hours
>
>>>>long film.
>>>
>>>
>>>A fair amount, and as soon as I get a TV card I'll be doing it a whole
>>
> lot
>
>>>more.
>>>
>>>My kids bought the Stargate DVD collection of the first season of shows
>>
> (21
>
>>>episodes) and I've ripped them all to Divx5, took better part of 3 weeks
>>
> cpu
>
>>>time. They are getting seasons 2 and 3 for christmas and seasons 4-6
>>
> soon as
>
>>>they are available so I've got at least a month of ripping just from
>>
> that
>
>>>one show.
>>>
>>>Fortunately the encoder I'm using can work in distributed mode so I can
>>
> have
>
>>>3 computers cranking away at the job at the same time (it's got an
>>
> encoder
>
>>>job service that makes this easy). But I can see where this is headed,
>>
> if I
>
>>>start using the computer like the VHS to record shows while I'm away or
>>>asleep there is going to be a steady stream of jobs for the encoder to
>>>handle.
>>>
>>>Geo. 
>>>
>>>
>
>

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