Is thoggen still completely dog-slow? Last time I tried to use it (dual-core P4 IIRC?) it was expecting something like 16 – 18 hours to rip a DVD. And the quality of the rip was pretty poor.
It takes 11 hrs for a full-size, 2GB rip on my 2.4Ghz P4-HT. Not good, but you start it before you go to sleep and it’s done before you get back from work.
Thoggen was slow because theoraenc was slow. With the new libtheora alpha7 though they’ve started using MMX (yes, straight out of 1996!) and it’s received a huge speed boost — I can encode in realtime on my Athlon64 3000+ (running in 64-bit mode if that makes any difference). It’s not multithreaded though, so a dual-core won’t much difference beyond GStreamer using the other core to do the Vorbis encoding.
Unfortunately alpha7 doesn’t do much for the quality, which for a given filesize simply can’t compete with the likes of Xvid (which is also faster), let alone more modern codecs like H.264/AVC.
Vorbis is arguably the best lossy audio format out there, and it’s a real shame that Theora can’t match it on the video side. I’m holding out lots of hope for Dirac though — let’s hope the BBC can do it…
Is thoggen still completely dog-slow? Last time I tried to use it (dual-core P4 IIRC?) it was expecting something like 16 – 18 hours to rip a DVD. And the quality of the rip was pretty poor.
(The UI was sweet, though, so I’m hoping it has had some performance love.)
Ah, I see from zooming in on the screenshot that the answer is ‘no’. Shame.
It takes 11 hrs for a full-size, 2GB rip on my 2.4Ghz P4-HT. Not good, but you start it before you go to sleep and it’s done before you get back from work.
Luis:
Thoggen was slow because theoraenc was slow. With the new libtheora alpha7 though they’ve started using MMX (yes, straight out of 1996!) and it’s received a huge speed boost — I can encode in realtime on my Athlon64 3000+ (running in 64-bit mode if that makes any difference). It’s not multithreaded though, so a dual-core won’t much difference beyond GStreamer using the other core to do the Vorbis encoding.
Unfortunately alpha7 doesn’t do much for the quality, which for a given filesize simply can’t compete with the likes of Xvid (which is also faster), let alone more modern codecs like H.264/AVC.
Vorbis is arguably the best lossy audio format out there, and it’s a real shame that Theora can’t match it on the video side. I’m holding out lots of hope for Dirac though — let’s hope the BBC can do it…
I like the interface. But that slowness seriously is going to annoy me.
It seems that you like emma and kropotkin which I sort of like too
Kropotkin is the laptop, and one of these days Emma gets on a t-shirt…