Just need a second opinion really

Does a GFX card have much too do with encoding vids.

It needs DX9 or whatever the software wants other than that it's down too the CPU and memory iirc.

TIA

Depends on the software.

A few use the GPU to do some of the encoding work, but most leave it up to the CPU.

Depends on the software.

A few use the GPU to do some of the encoding work, but most leave it up to the CPU.

Its a mate whos using ....................

Windows movie maker lol

It ran 36 hours and still hadn't finished when he hit the kill switch

Yup as Cheezemonkhai has said some encoding apps tap into the RAM available from the gfx cards but largely down to processor and RAM blocks. 36 hours sounds like a massive amount of time even if he was encoding a 2 hour film or something. Smaller blocks of RAM are far more efficient than say a 2GB stick so that could help.

John

If you get the right app it offloads a lot of the grunt work to the processing units within the GPU, but this is only the high end stuff.

I'd love to know what he was encoding because even 5 years ago I could transcode a full 3 hour home movie inside of an hour.

If you get the right app it offloads a lot of the grunt work to the processing units within the GPU, but this is only the high end stuff.

I'd love to know what he was encoding because even 5 years ago I could transcode a full 3 hour home movie inside of an hour.

HD Head camera footage from cycling tours so could have been a little heavy.But still ??

Iirc its a core2duo(not sure which) and two gig, my advice would be get four gig and Nero 9 or summat like that.

Have you been making a "gentleman's film"?

Caerdydd *****?

I'd get final cut and a well speced machine to run it on if it's full raw HD.