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.
Different computer, different results?
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Different computer, different results?
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Tab.
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dude :\ a lot of potential differences here. First of all it could be a totally different xvid build. Second of all VAIOs usually come with LCD monitors or trinitrons, which are WAY more detailed than your average shadow mask monitor. You can literally see every pixel with an apeture grille monitor or LCD monitor, shadow masks you can just see little lines. Noise and artifacting that you can see clearly on a trinitron is blurred out or completely invisible on a shadow mask monitor.
Then of course you could have totally different decoders with totally different postprocessing and decoding settings.
But to answer your question, no, the actual encode will be exactly the same no matter what system you use if you use the same source and the same xvid build.
Then of course you could have totally different decoders with totally different postprocessing and decoding settings.
But to answer your question, no, the actual encode will be exactly the same no matter what system you use if you use the same source and the same xvid build.
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I have two computers that are identical, except for the Video Cards, and -yes- there is a differance in what they display.
1 - ATI 32meg Rage-128
clear clean sharp and works quite well on almost everything except games.
1 - ATI 64meg Radion
clear sharp but not very clean on Xvid playback or games.
. . now . . I do not build my stuff for Games, 3D CAD or Spead Sheets.
When a Video is made on either computer and transfered to my wifes Nforge display, everything looks clean clear sharp.
A: yes, what you are using to play these Video's does make a difference to your eye's only.
1 - ATI 32meg Rage-128
clear clean sharp and works quite well on almost everything except games.
1 - ATI 64meg Radion
clear sharp but not very clean on Xvid playback or games.
. . now . . I do not build my stuff for Games, 3D CAD or Spead Sheets.
When a Video is made on either computer and transfered to my wifes Nforge display, everything looks clean clear sharp.
A: yes, what you are using to play these Video's does make a difference to your eye's only.
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Dannywilson
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I have a 5 year old computer and a dual proc 1.8ghz, and they display the same stuff. albeit one faster than the other, but if you open up Vdub, the streams look exactly the same.
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