Powermac G4 450 mhz (AGP Graphics) Benchmark

[crm7290]

Machine Type: Powermac G4
CPU Speed: 450 mhz
Rip Format: MP4
Encoder: x264 (h. 264 iPod)
Quality / Bit Rate: 1500
Average Frames Per Second: 1.25
Highest ETA 46 hours 32 Minutes

2 days of waiting for Transformers. I hope its worth it. THis is with the new version of Handbrake.
Any tips to help this go quicker? Maybe next time ill go with ipod low-rez

[rhester]

MPEG-4 will be much faster (as will going to low-res, doing both will cut your time drastically) but will not look as good as H.264 at that bitrate (however, it doesn't matter so much if you are watching iPod only and therefore can rip at 320x200).

Rodney

[crm7290]

Thanks man. I should put it on ipod low res. So next time i should change my output settings to MP4 using the Mpeg-4 / AAC codec. I can see why this would go faster. THe average bitrates only going to be 700 which is half of what it was on before.

Im getting a macbook around june so that will help eventually with puttin some dvds on my ipod.

And again thank you. I was thinking my comp was trash or something, which compared to a new tower it is but thanks for clearin my speed up a little.

[pluto7777]

I get ~8fps with the following on my old 350MHz G4. This slows to ~2fps when using x264.
~/HandbrakeCLI -i ~/VIDEO_TS -o ~/output.mp4 -t 1 -e ffmpeg -b 1024 -B 128 -R 48 -E faac -f mp4 -w 640

I should probably add I did this remotely through ssh. It shouldn't matter as long as you don't use verbosity.
Sadly -v can affect overall speed when using CLI.