[oneeng]

I have an SD camera, a Core 2 duo 2.33Ghz (8Mb L2), and an HD4670 with Creator 2010.

I have noticed several things:

1. Rendering to a DVI file only uses about 40% of the processor (suspect I am I/O bound)
2. Only Generic MPEG-2 good quality appears to use ATI Stream, but pegs both processors at 100% (suspect here I am CPU bound)

I like the speed that Generic MPEG-2 gives me, and the quality appears to be OK. Would you recommend using Genric MPEG-2 good quality or DVI rendering for the purposes of creating a DVD to play on a wide screen TV?

[ggrussell]

1. Rendering to a DVI file only uses about 40% of the processor (suspect I am I/O bound)
2. Only Generic MPEG-2 good quality appears to use ATI Stream, but pegs both processors at 100% (suspect here I am CPU bound)

I like the speed that Generic MPEG-2 gives me, and the quality appears to be OK. Would you recommend using Genric MPEG-2 good quality or DVI rendering for the purposes of creating a DVD to play on a wide screen TV?

Eventually DVI has to be converted to MPEG 2 when creating a DVD. I find it kind of odd that ATI Stream would peg the CPU since it should be using the GPU.

[oneeng]

ggrussell,

Thanks for the reply.

So there should be no quality difference if I first render the video as Generic MPEG-2 and then create the DVD, or if I just go straight into myDVD and render it there.

I am also curios as to why the CPU usage is so high when it is using ATI Stream. I am saying that it uses it based on the screen showing it, not based on anything tangible (although it does appear to render quickly).

[oneeng]

Ok, I rechecked my data.

The rendering using ATI Stream puts both processors around 50-60% while rendering to WMV (as an example) pegs the processors. Both options take about the same amount of time ..... again I am thinking that the Hard Drive is the bottleneck here.