Andreas,
Imagine how fast it would be with your Athlon + DDR combo. ;) Still waiting for the Swifttech cooler?
Your guess is correct. Apparently the company is overwhelmed with orders. On the bad side, I found a posting on a BBS that confirmed my suspicions. One of the capacitors is in a way of the Swiftech cooler. Apparently, when Asus realized that (Doh) they moved the holes on the motherboard back a bit. But the problem now is that the the heatsink has a "step" to fit over the elevated portion of the Socket. but now when the holes are back (out of AMD spec), this "step" interferes with the plastic of the heatsink. So the guy who made the post on the BBS said that he shaved off part of the plastic. I guess I will have to do the same.
One way for Swichtech to solve the problem would be to move this "step" a bit.
BTW, did you try out the recently released, optimized version of Flask? It should even speed up a Celeron because the initial version was extremely badly compiled (the new release also has dual CPU support).
I am a little clueless about the whole thing. This is my first attempt. I am using version 0.6 beta. I picked the MMX optimization. It is using both CPUs, but the overall utilization is only slightly above 50%, with load going back and forth between the CPUs.
I am using a dll called bbMPEG for output. I am not quite clear about the interaction between this DLL and FLASK itself.
And concerning the PAL DVD: I watch NTSC DVDs (region 1 coded) regularly on my TV, since I prefer the original version (and not the German dubbed one). So I guess the other way round shouldn't bee a problem either. Since NTSC uses 60 Hz, while PAL uses only 50 Hz, it should be even easier this way. However, PAL uses more vertical lines (472 IIRC) compared to NTSC. Or are you converting to VCD NTSC standard?
What kind of DVD player are you using that lets you do this? Anything special? Does it have some kind of Region coding hack? I guess the DVD must be doing something to change the frame rate so that it can play on your PAL TV (or do you have a special TV that supports both?)
Or are you converting to VCD NTSC standard?
Yes, I am trying the VCD NTSC standard. I will then copy to a CDROM and play from there. I would obviously prefer to watch it directly from the DVD itself. I think I will have to investigate this more. (BTW, did I mention that I hate Hollywood for coming up with the Region coding? Actually, the same goes for European bureaucrats who came up with PAL vs. the established NTSC standard, regardless of the technical merits of either standard)
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