From: "Adam Flinton" 

Heh heh heh......

OK then get a "recorder machine(s)". I am interested in setting
up the DVD:Rip clustering at some point....but I just have a std transcode
commandline which I just pipe into my linux workstation (I change the
filename to be produced etc & the dir the vob's are in obviously) &
then go
& do something else. The most recent DVD I've bought & dvix5'ed is
goldmember & what I tend to do (on buying a DVD) is this:

Rip DVD > disk/unencrypted (on Linux) Pop DVD out & plonk into Win2K box
Start transcode on linux box from Win2K box (ssh) Watch dvd on Win2K box
Finish watching movie & dvix (on linux) is also done.

Parallel processing ? 

Adam


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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>
> > 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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