Ok, here's the deal. I was over at a relative's house and they have a Sony VAIO, much more powerful than my current computer, so I wanted to test out how it does with encoding.
So, I took all the software and tools I would need (i.e. SmartRipper, XviD, etc.) and tranferred it all to my small USB storage device. Then I installed everything and gave it a restart.
However, when I made an output video, the visual quality was rather inferior to the ones that I made on my PC at home. I swear that I put it all under the same settings: XviD curve bitrate, frame size, FPS, etc. etc. I even got my AVS scripts onto the USB device and used those for the output run.
So, enough of the story...I'll get to the point. Do different computers have different output results than others?
Thanks for any input.

