pauljones52 Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I encoded a CD on my dads computer (AMD athlon XP 2400 (2Ghz)) to transfer to my minidisc and it took over twice as long to encode the files as my 1.6 pentium M. Both computers have 1Gb of RAM. I realise the pentium M is equivelent of about 2.4Ghz destop processor, but there is a huge difference in encoding times. Is the Pentium M a good processor to encode media files, or is there a better processor for this? Let me know your experiences.Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 (edited) Ive got a P4 2.8ghz with 470 ram and 128 mb grafix ram. Mine is pretty quick by my standards when encoding to 132kb atrac. I don't suppose you were running other programs in the background i.e internet, messenger etc? Try encoding with nothing in the background? What bit rate atrac were you encoding to? Edited January 13, 2006 by GregTheRotter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 My primary computer is a laptop with a 2.0Ghz Pentium M processor and 1Ghz Ram. I have been using this machine for just over a year with various versions of Sonic Stage and never had any issues. Encoding is pretty quick in my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMPlitude Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 pentium Ms are comparitively very, very fast to other processors that are rated at higher speed than they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZosoIV Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Agreed - the Pentium M processor in my laptop (1.4GHz) appears to do calulations like encoding about as fast as a 2GHz desktop P4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Are you encoding straight from the CD? If yes, you also have to consider the ripping time. Some CD drives are just slower than others. Also, encoding to Atrac3 is faster than Atrac3+. Encoding to HiSP is slower than HiLP. Unfortunately, we don't know how Sony optimize the Atrac encoder in Sonicstage (whether it's SSE2/3 optimized, dual core optimized, P4/A64 optimized, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauljones52 Posted January 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 My cd drive reads at 24x, my dads is a 48x one. As sonicstage comes bundled with most sony VAIO laptops, it would make sense if the encoder was optimised for them (Pentium M and celeron M's). I have never seen a sony laptop with an AMD processor in it, so mabye this is the reason for encoding times? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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